Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Dicliptera peruviana
Generally, up to 60 cm tall with 3-lobed leaves that are green toward the tip and white toward the base (Wiggins and Porter 1971).
In shaded habitats up to 3000 m altitude (Wiggins y Porter 1971).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)
Order
Lamiales
Family
Acanthaceae
Genus
Dicliptera
Species
peruviana
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Diapedium peruvianum (Lam.) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 485 (1891); Justicia peruviana Lam. in Encycl. 1: 633 (1785)
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Present in Peru and Ecuador (including Galapagos) (POWO, 2023).
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- Hooker, J.D. (1847) An Enumeration of the Plants of the Galapagos Archipelago; with descriptions of those which are new. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 20: 163-233.
- Jørgensen, P.M. León-Yánez, S. (eds.) (1999) Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, 1181 pp.
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2022) Plants of the world online POWO (2022): Plants of the world online. Published on the Internet; Https://powo.science.kew.org/
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Missouri Botanical Garden (eds.) (2013) The Plant List, Version 1.1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 1st January).
- Stewart, A. (1911) A botanical survey of the Galápagos Islands. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 4th Series, 1: 7-288.
- Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
- Van der Werff, H.H. (s.a.) Pers. obs. and colls. Personal observations and collections.
- Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Dicliptera peruviana", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=126. Accessed 5 April 2026.