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| Family | Acanthaceae |
| Subamily | Acanthoideae |
| Tribe | Ruellieae |
| Scientific name | Strobilanthes flexicaulis Hayata |
| Synonyms | Strobilanthes glandulifera Hatusima |
| Common name | (Japanese common name) arisan-ai (アリサンアイ, 阿里山藍 [meaning: Mt. Arisan indigo]), seitaka suzu-mushi-sou (セイタカスズムシソウ, 背高鈴虫草 [meaning: tall suzu-mushi-sou (suzumushi-sou = suzu-mushi-bana = Strobilanthes oligantha)]) |
| (English common name) none | |
| Distribution | (Japan) Okinawa |
| (Other nations) Taiwan | |
| Habitat | Wet evergreen shrub forest |
| Chromosomal number | 2n=30 |
| Description | Plants electing 50-100cm tall. Leaves 10-20cm long and 3-8cm wide in non-flowering season, 2-6cm long and 1.7-3cm wide in flowering season. Flowers pale purple or whie corollas ca. 3cm long, flowering in January to March. Perennial plants (or subshrub). |
| Reference | Strobilanthes flexicaulis Hayata |
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| Karyomorphology in Strobilanthes glandulfera and S. tashiroi (Acanthaceae) of the Ryukyu Islands. |
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