Heliconia stricta
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Heliconia stricta is a species of flowering plant in the family Heliconiaceae.[1][2] It is native to Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, reproducing by seeds and by underground rhizomes. It is reportedly naturalized in Cuba and Puerto Rico, and cultivated as an ornamental in many other warm regions.[3][4][5] The young leaves and bracts retain water, forming pools called phytotelmata, which provide habitat for diverse invertebrates.[6]
Some common cultivated varieties are:[7][8][9]
- Bucky
- Dwarf Jamaican
- Fire Bird
- Iris Bannochie
- Oliveira's Sharonii
- Tagami
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External links
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- ↑ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Heliconia stricta
- ↑ Huber, Jacob E. 1906. Boletim do Museo Goeldi de Historia Natural e Ethnographia. Belém. 4: 543, Heliconia stricta
- ↑ Andersson, L. 1981. Revision of Heliconia sect. Heliconia (Musaceae). Nordic Journal of Botany 1(6): 759–784.
- ↑ Jalinsky, J., T.A. Radocy, R. Wertenberger, & C.S. Chaboo. 2014. Insect diversity in phytotelmata habitats of two host plants, Heliconia stricta Huber (Heliconiaceae) and Calathea lutea Schult (Marantaceae) in the south-east Amazon of Peru. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 87(3): 299–311.
- ↑ http Stokes Tropicals, Lafayette, Louisiana USA, Heliconia stricta 'Firebird'
- ↑ National Tropical Botanical Garden, Koloa Hawai'i USA, Meet the Plants, Heliconia stricta Lobster Claw Red
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Categories:
- Heliconia
- Garden plants
- Plants described in 1906
- Flora of Colombia
- Flora of Puerto Rico
- Flora of Cuba
- Flora of Suriname
- Flora of Guyana
- Flora of Bolivia
- Flora of Peru
- Flora of Ecuador
- Flora of Venezuela
- Flora of Brazil
- Flora without expected TNC conservation status
- Taxa named by Jacques Huber
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