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Floristic Inventory of the Bahama Archipelago Database Online

Asystasia gangetica (L.) T. Anderson
Chinese violet (Florida Atlas, PLANTS)

Asystasia gangetica
Copyright by: George D. Gann, 2016
Naturalized in Piñones State Forest, Loíza, Puerto Rico, Enlarge

Family: Acanthaceae

Group: Dicot

Perennation: Perennial

Habit: Herb

Substrate: Terrestrial

Native Status: Not Native, Naturalized

Native Range: Old World tropics; widely cultivated and naturalized elsewhere.

Map of Locations [currently Florida only]

History in the Bahamas: Not listed in Britton & Millspaugh (1920). Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 1340, 1342-1343, with illustrations) for disturbed areas in the northwestern Commonwealth (region 8).

Other data on Asystasia gangetica available from :

Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants
Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants
Asystasia gangetica has been reported for the following habitat in Bahama Archipelago :
Disturbed Upland

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Asystasia gangetica
Copyright by: George D. Gann, 2016
Naturalized in Piñones State Forest, Loíza, Puerto Rico, Enlarge
Asystasia gangetica
Copyright by: Forest & Kim Starr
Asystasia gangetica
Copyright by: Keith A. Bradley
Asystasia gangetica
Copyright by: Keith A. Bradley