Rubiaceae
Ophiorrhiza
Ophiorrhiza rugosa

Ophiorrhiza rugosa var. argentea (Wall. ex G.Don) Deb & Mondal

First published in Bull. Bot. Surv. India 24: 228 (1982 publ. 1983)
This variety is accepted
The native range of this variety is Sri Lanka, Assam to Peninsula Malaysia. It is a subshrub and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Assam, Bangladesh, Malaya, Myanmar, Thailand

Extinct in:

Sri Lanka

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Ranasinghe, S. & al. (2020). The national red list 2020 - Conservation status of the flora of Sri Lanka: 1-254. Biodiversity secretariat, Ministry of environment and the national herbarium.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
De Silva, F. [Cat. no. 6229] Ophiorrhiza argentea K001123359 Yes
De Silva, F. [Cat. no. 6229] Ophiorrhiza argentea K001123361 Yes
De Silva, F. [Cat. no. 6229] Ophiorrhiza argentea K001123360 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 6229], Bangladesh Ophiorrhiza argentea K001123362 Yes

Sources

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0