Acanthaceae Juss - Acanthus Family

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Plants > Angiosperms > Acanthaceae

Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Class: Dicots
Order: Lamiales
Family: Acanthaceae

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​Acanthaceae is a family (the acanthus family) of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing almost 250 genera and about 2500 species. Most are tropical herbs, shrubs, or twining vines; some are epiphytes. Only a few species are distributed in temperate regions. The four main centres of distribution are Indonesia and Malaysia, Africa, Brazil, and Central America. Representatives of the family can be found in nearly every habitat, including dense or open forests, scrublands, wet fields and valleys, sea coast and marine areas, swamps, and mangrove forests. Wikipedia

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Genera: Acanthus, Andrographis, Asystasia, Asystasiella, Barleria, Cystacanthus, Dicliptera, Eranthemum, Hypoestes, Lepidagathis, Megaskepasma, Nelsonia, Pachystachys, Peristrophe, Phlogacanthus, Pseuderanthemum, Pseuderanthemum, Ruellia, Thunbergia

Acanthus montanus

Andrographis laxiflora

Andrographis paniculata

Asystasia chelonoides

Asystasia gangetica

Asystasia salicifolia

Asystasiella neesiana

Barleria cristata

Barleria lupulina

Barleria siamensis

Barleria strigosa

Cystacanthus vitellinus

Dicliptera sp. 01

Eranthemum roseum

Eranthemum tetragonum

Hypoestes phyllostachya

Justicia quadrifaria

Lepidagathis incurva

Megaskepasma erythrochlamys

Nelsonia canescens

Pachystachys lutea

Peristrophe Lanceolaria

Phlogacanthus pulcherrimus

Pseuderanthemum andersonii

Pseuderanthemum carruthersii

Pseuderanthemum crenulatum

Ruellia prostrata

Ruellia repens

Ruellia squarrosa

Ruellia tuberosa

Thunbergia alata

Thunbergia erecta

Thunbergia fragrans

Thunbergia grandiflora

Thunbergia hossei

Thunbergia laurifolia

Thunbergia similis

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References: 
Wikipedia