The annatto plant, Bixa orellana, which is sometimes used for medicinal purposes in the Guianas, produces a seed from which a food-coloring paste is derived.
Nautilocalyx is a genus of plants in the family Gesneriaceae. Its native range stretches from Costa Rica to southern Tropical America and to Trinidad.
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The native range of this species is French Guiana to N. Brazil. It grows primarily in the wet tropical biome. Taxonomy · General information.
Nautilocalyx kohlerioides is used as an ornamental plant in gardens and parks. It is also used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat colds, fever, and other ...
Classification ; kingdom; Plantae ; phylum; Tracheophyta ; class; Magnoliopsida ; order; Lamiales ; family; Gesneriaceae ...
First published in Linnaea 26: 207 (1854). This genus is accepted. The native range of this genus is Costa Rica to S. Tropical America and Trinidad.
Nautilocalyx | Flora of the Guianas
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Terrestrial or rarely epiphytic, caulescent, decumbent to erect herbs or low shrubs, occasionally tuberous. Stems rarely branched. Leaves opposite, equal or ...
Used in local medicine against scorpion stings; cultivated as an ornamental, several color-forms have been introduced in cultivation. Main menu.
proach used here is also based on an evaluation of generic characters within ... Nautilocalyx kohlerioides (Lwbg.) Wiehler, comb. nov. (Figure 113). Episcia ...