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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Mendoncia velloziana''
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Lamiales]]
| familia = [[Acanthaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Mendoncia]]''
| species = '''''M. velloziana'''''
| binomial = ''Mendoncia velloziana''
| binomial_authority = [[Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck|Nees]]
}}
'''''Mendoncia velloziana''''' is a [[plant]] native to [[Atlantic Coast restingas]] [[vegetation]] which is an [[ecosystem]] of [[Atlantic Forest]] [[biome]]. In addition, this plant grows either in [[Cerrado]] vegetation of [[Brazil]]. This plant grows in following states of Brazil: [[Bahia]], [[Ceará]] [[Minas Gerais]] [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[São Paulo]], [[Paraná]] and [[Santa Catarina (state)|Santa Catarina]], and it is usually visited by the [[hummingbirds]].
==See also==
* [[List of plants of Atlantic Forest vegetation of Brazil]]
* [[List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil]]
==References==
''Mendoncia velloziana'' is cited in the following research articles:
*{{pt icon}} ABREU, C. R. M.; VIEIRA, M. F.. (2004) [http://www.icb.ufmg.br/~lundiana/full/vol522004/4.pdf Hummingbirds and their floral resources in a forest fragment in Viçosa, southeastern Brazil] with have the abstract in English.
* {{pt icon}} BRAZ, D. M; CARVALHO-OKANO, R. M.; KAMEYAMA, C. (2002) [http://www.www.scielo.br/pdf/rbb/v25n4/a13v25n4.pdf Acanthaceae of Mata do Paraíso Forest Reserve, Viçosa, Minas Gerais] with have the abstract in English.
==External links==
* {{pt icon}} [http://www.restinga.net/flora_detail.asp?family=1 ''Mendoncia velloziana'']
* {{pt icon}} [http://umbuzeiro.cnip.org.br/db/pnechk/taxa/10462.html ''Mendoncia velloziana'']
{{Acanthaceae-stub}}
[[Category:Acanthaceae]]
[[Category:Flora of Brazil]]