Rhaphiodon echinus (Nees & Mart.) Schauer is a plant in the Lamiaceae family, order Lamiales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Rhaphiodon echinus (Nees & Mart.) Schauer

Rhaphiodon echinus (Nees & Mart.) Schauer

Rhaphiodon echinus is the only species in its genus, a Lamiaceae flowering plant endemic to eastern Brazil.

Family
Genus
Rhaphiodon
Order
Lamiales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Rhaphiodon echinus (Nees & Mart.) Schauer

Rhaphiodon echinus is a species of flowering plant that belongs to the family Lamiaceae. It is endemic to eastern Brazil, and it is the only known species within the genus Rhaphiodon. This genus was first described in 1844.

Photo: (c) Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil, some rights reserved (CC BY) · cc-by

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Lamiales Lamiaceae Rhaphiodon

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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