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  1. Family: Acanthaceae Juss.

    1. Fittonia Coem.

        2. This genus is accepted, and its native range is W. South America to N. Brazil.

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    Distribution

    Native to:

    Bolivia, Brazil North, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela

    Introduced into:

    Bangladesh, El Salvador, Myanmar, Trinidad-Tobago

    Accepted Species

    Synonyms

    Other Data

    Fittonia Coem. appears in other Kew resources:

    Bibliography

    First published in J. Gén. Hort. 15: 185 (1865)

    Accepted by

    • Govaerts, R. (2001). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS E-F: 1-50919.
    • Boggan, J. Funck, V. & Kelloff, C. (1997). Checklist of the Plants of the Guianas (Guyana, Surinam, Franch Guiana) ed. 2: 1-238. University of Guyana, Georgetown.

    Sources

    Kew Backbone Distributions
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

    Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0