Palisota bracteosa C.B.Clarke

Species

Angiosperms > Commelinales > Commelinaceae > Palisota

Characteristics

A herb. It grows 50 cm tall. It starts erect and becomes creeping. The leaves are narrow oval and 10-40 cm long. They taper to the tip. They form a basal ring. They are hairy underneath. The flowering shoots are 18 cm long at the top of the plant. There are white to green bracts. There are many small white, cream or pink flowers. The fruit is a narrowly oval berry. It is red and hairy. There is one black seed.
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A rosette of leaves arising at about ground-level; lamina sometimes a greenish-white stripe along midrib above
Stemless herb (or merely rhizomatous)
Flowers pinkish-white or white
Fruits red
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
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Mature height (meter) 0.5
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Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows in rainforests up to 1,800 m above sea level.
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In rain-forest.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible roots
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Cultivation

Plants can be grown from seeds.
Mode seedlings
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Images

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Distribution

Palisota bracteosa world distribution map, present in Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:172912-1
WFO ID wfo-0000488670
COL ID 4C57Z
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Palisota bracteosa