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{{Short description|Species of plant}}
{{Speciesbox
| status = VU
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 20 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Oatham, M. |author2=Van den Eynden, V. |author3=Johnson, W. |date=2017 |title=''Justicia tobagensis'' |volume=2017 |page=e.T115945657A115968121 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T115945657A115968121.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}</ref>
| taxon = Justicia tobagensis
| authority = ([[Ignatz Urban|Urb.]]) [[Dieter Carl Wasshausen|Wassh.]]
| synonyms =''Drejerella tobagensis'' <small>Turrill</small><ref name = IPNI>{{IPNI|id=987266-1|date=2009-01-27}}</ref>
}}
'''''Justicia tobagensis''''' is a species of plant in the family [[Acanthaceae]] which is [[endemism|endemic]] to [[Trinidad and Tobago]].  The species is only known from two areas in the [[Main Ridge, Tobago|Main Ridge]] of [[Tobago]].<ref name = VandenE>{{cite journal| last = Van den Eynden| first = Veerle |author2=Michael P. Oatham |author3=Winston Johnson| year = 2008| title = How free access internet resources benefit biodiversity and conservation research: Trinidad and Tobago's endemic plants and their conservation status| journal = Oryx| volume = 42| issue = 2| pages = 400–07| doi = 10.1017/S0030605308007321| doi-access = free}}</ref>  It was first described as ''Drejerella tobagensis'' by German botanist [[Ignatz Urban]] in his ''Symbolae Antillanae'', based on a collection made by Danish botanist [[Henrik Franz Alexander von Eggers|Henrik von Eggers]].<ref name = Urban>{{cite book|last=Urban|first=Ignatz|author-link=Ignatz Urban|title=Symbolae Antillanae,seu, Fundamenta florae Indiae Occidentalis|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/3757|volume=7|year=1911–1913|publisher=Berolini|location=Paris, London}}</ref>
In 1995 American botanist [[Dieter C. Wasshausen]] proposed a new combination, ''Justicia tobagensis'', which reflected the predominant view that the genus ''Drejerella'' is actually a part of the genus ''Justicia''.<ref>{{cite journal| last = Wasshausen| first = Dieter C.| year = 1995| title  = A New Species, New Combinations, and a New Name in Acanthaceae from Northern South America| journal = Brittonia| volume = 47| issue = 4| pages = 422–25| jstor = 2807572| doi = 10.2307/2807572| s2cid = 37674002}}</ref>
==Conservation status==
Although ''Justicia tobagensis'' is not listed in the [[IUCN Red List]], the authors of a 2008 assessment of the endemic plant species of Trinidad and Tobago considered it [[vulnerable species|vulnerable]] due to the fact that it is known from a restricted area or small number of localities.<ref name = VandenE/>
==See also==
* [[Endemic flora of Trinidad and Tobago]]
==References==
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