''Adenia heterophylla'', commonly known in Australia as the lacewing vine, is a climbing plant in the family Passifloraceae. It has a broad distribution spanning the

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, from the south eastern corner of China, through

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and

Malesia Malesia is a biogeographical region straddling the Equator and the boundaries of the Indomalayan and Australasian realms, and also a phytogeographical floristic region in the Paleotropical Kingdom. It has been given different definitions. ...

, to northern Australia. In Australia it serves as a food plant for

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of the glasswing, red lacewing and cruiser butterflies.

Taxonomy

First described as ''Modecca heterophylla'' by the

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- Dutch botanist

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in 1826, this species was reviewed by Dutch botanist

Sijfert Hendrik Koorders Sijfert Hendrik Koorders (1863 – 1919) was a Dutch botanist, who worked primarily on the flora of Java. Life Koorders was born in Bandung, Indonesia on 29 November 1863. In 1881 he graduated from the Hogere Burgerschool in Haarlem in the N ...

who gave it the current

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, and published it in the work ''Exkursionsflora von Java, umfassend die Blütenpflanzen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der im Hochgebirge wildwachsenden Arten im Auftrage des Niederländischen Kolonialministeriums'' in 1912.

Infraspecies

, there are five infraspecies accepted by

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, as follows:

Distribution and habitat

The lacewing vine grows in a variety of tropical forest types including rainforest, beach forest, monsoon forest and vine thickets. It is native to the following areas:

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, south east China,

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, Laos,

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, Nicobar Islands, the

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Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_ ...

, Sulawesi,

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and

Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to ...

Conservation

This species is listed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science as

least concern A least-concern species is a species that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated as not being a focus of species conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wild. Th ...

. , it has not been assessed by the IUCN.

Gallery

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References

External links

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