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False bird of paradise (Heliconia rostrata)

Dlium False bird of paradise (Heliconia rostrata)

False bird of paradise (Heliconia rostrata) is a species of plant in the Heliconiaceae, shrubs, pseudo stems and layers, upright, growing in colonies with fibrous roots and creeping in shallow soil and often appearing above the soil surface.

H. rostrata has elongated, thick, waterproof leaves, up to 85 cm long, up to 20 cm wide, leaf sheaths up to 105 cm long. Flowers in elongated, hanging panicles, up to 50 cm long. Flowers sit opposite, up to 15 cm long, up to 3 cm wide, red and yellow.



TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Zingiberales
Family: Heliconiaceae
Genus: Heliconia L. in Mant. Pl. 2: 147 (1771)
Subgenus: Heliconia
Section: Episcopales
Species: Heliconia rostrata Ruiz & Pav. in Fl. Peruv. 3: 71 (1802)

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS

Bihai rostrata (Ruiz & Pav.) Griggs in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 31: 445 (1904)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Bihai poeppigiana (Eichler ex Petersen) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 685 (1891)
Heliconia poeppigiana Eichler ex Petersen in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 3(3): 18 (1890)

PUBLICATIONS

Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2005). Monocotyledons and Gymnosperms of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 52: 1-415.

Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.

Barthelat, F. (2019). La flore illustrée de Mayotte: 1-687. Biotope éditions.

Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Plunkett, G.M., Ranker, T.A., Sam, C. & Balick, M.J. (2022). Towards a checklist of the vascular flora of Vanuatu. Candollea 77: 105-118.

Santisuk, T. & Larsen, K. (eds.) (2008). Flora of Thailand 9(2): 91-188. The Forest Herbarium, National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, Bangkok.

Sarder, N.U. & Hassan, M.A. (eds.) (2018). Vascular flora of Chittagong and the Chittagong Hill Tracts 1: 1-897. Bangladesh National Herbarium, Dhaka.

Villaseñor, J.L. (2016). Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 559-902.

VERNACULAR NAME

Bengali: স্বর্গের মিথ্যা পাখি
Chinese (Simplified): 金嘴蝎尾蕉
Chinese (Traditional): 金鳥赫蕉 (垂花赫蕉)
Czech: Helikónie zobanitá
English: False bird of paradise, Hanging Lobster Claw Heliconia
French: Héliconia rostré
German: Hängende Hummerschere
Hong Kong: 金鳥赫蕉 - 垂花赫蕉
Indonesian: Pisang pisangan
Italian: Eliconia
Java: Gedang manuk
Kannada: ದ್ರೌಪದಿಯ ಜಡೆ
Karnataka: ದ್ರೌಪದಿಯ ಜಡೆ
Korean: 랍스터집게꽃
Lithuanian: Snapuotasis bangminys
Macao: 金鳥赫蕉 - 垂花赫蕉
Polish: Helikonia dziobata
Portuguese: Caetê, Helicônia-rostrata
Russian: Геликония ростральная
Slovak: Helikónia zobákovitá
Spanish: Lorito, Toucan Beaks, Heliconia, Flor del patujú
Taiwan: 金鳥赫蕉 - 垂花赫蕉
Thai: ก้ามกุ้งช่อห้อย

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