Characteristics
Dicots
Acalypha wilkesiana Müll.Arg.
WILKES' COPPERLEAF
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According to Sagun et al. (2010), Acalypha wilkesiana is not most closely related to A. amentacea and is better treated as a species known only from cultivation that is more closely related to A. hispida.
Not Native
FAC (NWPL)
Classification
Citation
ACALYPHA WILKESIANA Müller Argoviensis, in de Candolle, Prodr. 15(2): 817. 1866.
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FIJI: Without data, U.S. Expl. Exped. s.n. (holotype: K; isotype: K, US).
Species Distribution Map
Plant Photos
Acalypha amentacea subsp. wilkesiana
- USF Herbarium Slide Collection
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