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Calceolaria dichotoma subsp. dichotoma Lam.

Zapatitos, Slipper flower

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Plantae

Phylum
Magnoliophyta

Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)

Order
Lamiales

Family
Calceolariaceae

Genus
Calceolaria

Species
dichotoma

Subspecies
subsp. dichotoma

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Calceolaria meistantha Pennel (POWO, 2022)

Origin: Native

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

References

  • Brako, L. Zarucchi,J.L. (1993) Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45: i–xl, 1–1286.
  • McMullen, C.K. (1999) Flowering plants of the Galapagos. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 370 pp.
  • Molau, U. (1988) Scrophulariaceae. Part I. Calceolarieae. Fl. Neotrop. 47: 1–326.
  • Molau, U. (1981) The genus Calceolaria in NW South America. VI. The sections Urticopsis, Lobatae and Micranthera. Nordic J. Bot. 1(2): 165–185.
  • 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/

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