Acanthaceae

Strobilanthes speciosa Blume

Dien Bien Prov., Tua Chua Distr., Sin Chai Municipality, around point 22°03’38”N 103°19’56”E. Primary humid evergreen broad-leaved forest on very steep rocky slopes and on tops of remnant mountain composed with highly eroded marble-like solid crystalline limestone at elevation 1350-1500 m a.s.l. Terrestrial and lithophytic undershrub to 1.5 m tall on shady rocky slope. Flowers blue. Very common.

CPC 904 13 December 2010

Coll.: L.Averyanov, P.K.Loc, P.V.The, N.T.Vinh.