WorldFloraDB - Heliconia

Characteristics

Rhizomatous herbs with the habit of a Canna or a Banana, mediocre or very large; leaves distichous, frequently very large; inflorescence spiciform, with con-spicuous distichous, more or less conduplicate bracts subtending the clusters of flowers, erect or pendulous; flowers perfect; perianth segments in 2 series, the inner petals more or less connate, sometimes very unequal, the outer sepals separate and more or less adnate to the corolla; stamens 5 or 6, the sixth sometimes staminodial and petaloid; ovary inferior, 3-celled; fruit a loculicidally dehiscent capsule, somewhat fleshy and berry-like.

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Plants: pseudostems erect, in groups of [1--]5--50. Leaves: petiole long [short or nearly absent], base of blade unequal on either side of midrib. Inflorescences terminal, erect [pendent], raceme of cincinni; cincinni spiral [2-ranked]; cincinnal bract ± enclosing each cincinnus, brightly colored, leaflike. Flowers each subtended by membranous floral bract. Fruits blue [rarely red or orange] at maturity. Seeds surrounded by stony, roughened endocarp (pyrenes). x = 12.

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Growth form	herb
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Images

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Distribution

Heliconia world distribution map, present in Belize, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Fiji, Gambia, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Haiti, Jamaica, Moldova (Republic of), Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Paraguay, Solomon Islands, Suriname, Thailand, United States of America, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Vanuatu, and Samoa

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331205-2
WFO ID	wfo-4000017228
COL ID	8VY5D
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	446210
Wikipedia (EN)	Link
Wikipedia (FR)	Link

Synonyms

Heliconia

Lower taxons

Heliconia angelica Heliconia antioquiensis Heliconia atropurpurea Heliconia beckneri Heliconia brenneri Heliconia calatheaphylla Heliconia chartacea Heliconia chrysocraspeda Heliconia clinophila Heliconia colgantea Heliconia cordata Heliconia crassa Heliconia cucullata Heliconia curtispatha Heliconia danielsiana Heliconia dielsiana Heliconia donstonea Heliconia estherae Heliconia estiletioides Heliconia excelsa Heliconia faunorum Heliconia flabellata Heliconia foreroi Heliconia fredberryana Heliconia gigantea Heliconia gracilis Heliconia griggsiana Heliconia ignescens Heliconia imbricata Heliconia indica Heliconia juliani Heliconia lanata Heliconia lankesteri Heliconia lasiorachis Heliconia laxa Heliconia lentiginosa Heliconia librata Heliconia lingulata Heliconia litana Heliconia lophocarpa Heliconia lourteigiae Heliconia lozanoi Heliconia luciae Heliconia lutea Heliconia maculata Heliconia magnifica Heliconia mariae Heliconia mathiasiae Heliconia mooreana Heliconia mucronata Heliconia mutisiana Heliconia nickeriensis Heliconia nigripraefixa Heliconia nitida Heliconia nubigena Heliconia obscuroides Heliconia oleosa Heliconia papuana Heliconia pardoi Heliconia pendula Heliconia penduloides Heliconia plagiotropa Heliconia platystachys Heliconia pseudoaemygdiana Heliconia ramonensis Heliconia rhodantha Heliconia riopalenquensis Heliconia robusta Heliconia sarapiquensis Heliconia schiedeana Heliconia schumanniana Heliconia sclerotricha Heliconia secunda Heliconia sessilis Heliconia signa-hispanica Heliconia standleyi Heliconia stella-maris Heliconia stilesii Heliconia stricta Heliconia tacarcunae Heliconia talamancana Heliconia tenebrosa Heliconia thomasiana Heliconia umbrophila Heliconia vaginalis Heliconia vellerigera Heliconia villosa Heliconia virginalis Heliconia wilsonii Heliconia xanthovillosa Heliconia zebrina Heliconia adflexa Heliconia albicosta Heliconia angusta Heliconia apparicioi Heliconia arrecta Heliconia atratensis Heliconia auriculata Heliconia barryana Heliconia berriziana Heliconia berryi Heliconia boultoniana Heliconia brachyantha Heliconia burleana Heliconia cristata Heliconia darienensis Heliconia gaiboriana Heliconia harlingii Heliconia hirsuta Heliconia holmquistiana Heliconia huilensis Heliconia intermedia Heliconia juruana Heliconia kautzkiana Heliconia laufao Heliconia longissima Heliconia luteoviridis Heliconia x mantenensis Heliconia marginata Heliconia metallica Heliconia mucilagina Heliconia nariniensis Heliconia obscura Heliconia osaensis Heliconia pastazae Heliconia peckenpaughii Heliconia peteriana Heliconia pogonantha Heliconia pruinosa Heliconia rauliniana Heliconia regalis Heliconia reptans Heliconia rivularis Heliconia rodriguensis Heliconia santaremensis Heliconia solomonensis Heliconia spathocircinada Heliconia timothei Heliconia titanum Heliconia trichocarpa Heliconia velutina Heliconia venusta Heliconia aurantiaca Heliconia badilloi Heliconia bourgaeana Heliconia collinsiana Heliconia dasyantha Heliconia episcopalis Heliconia fragilis Heliconia reticulata Heliconia revoluta Heliconia richardiana Heliconia robertoi Heliconia sanctae-theresae Heliconia spissa Heliconia tortuosa Heliconia wagneriana Heliconia abaloi Heliconia longa Heliconia aemygdiana Heliconia bella Heliconia longiflora Heliconia samperiana Heliconia sylvicola Heliconia paulii Heliconia aurea Heliconia orthotricha Heliconia berguidoi Heliconia spatho-circinata Heliconia spatho-circinata Heliconia subulata Heliconia nutans Heliconia caquetensis Heliconia carajaensis Heliconia carmelae Heliconia fugax Heliconia lutheri Heliconia markiana Heliconia necrobracteata Heliconia rodriguezii Heliconia scarlatina Heliconia spiralis Heliconia impudica Heliconia gloriosa Heliconia rigida Heliconia sucrei Heliconia terciopela Heliconia willisiana Heliconia fernandezii Heliconia combinata Heliconia paka Heliconia paludigena Heliconia tandayapensis Heliconia triflora Heliconia uxpanapensis Heliconia meridensis Heliconia densiflora Heliconia monteverdensis Heliconia acuminata Heliconia irrasa Heliconia farinosa Heliconia latispatha Heliconia caribaea Heliconia bihai Heliconia rostrata Heliconia psittacorum