| Rhodochiton nubicola | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Plantaginaceae |
| Genus: | Rhodochiton |
| Species: | R. nubicola |
| Binomial name | |
| Rhodochiton nubicola (Elisens) D.A.Sutton | |
| Synonyms | |
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Lophospermum nubicola Elisens | |
Rhodochiton nubicola is a climbing or sprawling herbaceous perennial native to the state of Chiapas in Mexico and to Guatemala, where it grows in cloud forests at between 1,300 and 3,000 m (4,300 and 9,800 ft). It has dangling flowers, with a bell-shaped calyx and dark purple petals forming a tube. Unlike the better known Rhodochiton atrosanguineus, the petal tube is asymmetrical with two "lips".
The species was first described by Wayne J. Elisens in 1985. The specific epithet nubicola is a noun derived from Latin nubes, cloud, and -cola, dweller, thus meaning "cloud dweller". It was transferred from the genus Lophospermum to Rhodochiton by David A. Sutton in 1988.
References
- ^ "Rhodochiton nubicola (Elisens) D.A. Sutton", Tropicos.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, retrieved 2014-08-18
- ^ Elisens, Wayne J. (1985), "Monograph of the Maurandyinae (Scrophulariaceae-Antirrhineae)", Systematic Botany Monographs, 5: 1–97, doi:10.2307/25027602, JSTOR 25027602
- Stearn, W.T. (2004), Botanical Latin (4th (p/b) ed.), Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, pp. 200 & 387, ISBN 978-0-7153-1643-6
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Rhodochiton nubicola | |
| Lophospermum nubicola | |
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