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Floristic Inventory of the Bahama Archipelago Database Online

Barleria cristata L.
Crested Philippine-violet (Florida Atlas, PLANTS)

Barleria cristata
Copyright by: Keith A. Bradley

Family: Acanthaceae

Group: Dicot

Perennation: Perennial

Habit: Shrub

Substrate: Terrestrial

Native Status: Not Native, Naturalized

Native Range: Asia; widely cultivated and naturalized elsewhere in the tropics and subtropics.

Map of Locations [currently Florida only]

History in the Bahamas: Not listed in Britton & Millspaugh (1920). Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 1343-1344, with illustrations) for disturbed areas in the central Commonwealth (region 6).

Other data on Barleria cristata available from :

Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants
Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants
Barleria cristata has been reported for the following 2 habitats in the Bahama Archipelago :
Coppice
Disturbed Upland

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Barleria cristata
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Barleria cristata
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Barleria cristata
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Barleria cristata
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