Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR) Asystasia gangetica (Acanthaceae)
herbarium voucher specimen from Rota Island
(Northern Mariana Islands/Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (US)/Pacific region)


Presented here is information about a herbarium specimen (voucher) of Asystasia gangetica (Acanthaceae) from Rota Island (Northern Mariana Islands/Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (US)/Pacific region). For further information, contact webmaster@hear.org.


Voucher number: BISH420284
Herbarium (or collector): Bernice P. Bishop Museum
Taxon name on voucher: Asystasia gangetica (L.) T.Anderson
Represents which PIER taxon: Asystasia gangetica (Acanthaceae)
Local name: n/a
Info current as of: 01 October 2003
PIER comments: n/a
Local name language: n/a
Deteriminer: n/a
Determination date: n/a
Determination institution: Smithsonian... (US)
Region: Micronesia
Country: Mariana Islands
Island group: n/a
Island: n/a
State/province: Rota
Town/city: n/a
Locality: Village of Songsong and vicinity
PIER location: Rota Island (Northern Mariana Islands/Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (US)/Pacific region)
Habitat: Planted
Elevation (lo/hi): 5-10 m
Coordinates: n/a
LAT/LON method: n/a
PLDesc: Loosely branched, woody herb to 1 m high. Leaves bright green, shiny above, lighter and dull below with a mauve petiole and midrib. Flowers purple with a white tube.
Collector: Evans, M.
Collection team: n/a
CollNumber: 1999
Collection date(s): 17.v.1966
Voucher comment: n/a

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