{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}} {{Speciesbox | image = Dicliptera_aripoensis.jpg | image_caption = | status = EN | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{Cite journal | author = Oatham, M. | author2 = Van den Eynden, V. | author3 = Johnson, W. | name-list-style = amp | title = ''Dicliptera aripoensis'' | journal = The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species | volume = 2017 | page = e.T115945546A115968111 | publisher = IUCN | date = 2017 | url = http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/115945546/0 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T115945546A115968111.en | access-date = 15 December 2017| doi-access = free }}</ref> | genus = Dicliptera | species = aripoensis | authority = (Britton) Leonard | synonyms = ''Diapedium aripoense'' <small>Britton</small> | synonyms_ref = <ref name = IPNI>{{IPNI|id=79683-2|date=2009-01-26}}</ref> }}

'''''Dicliptera aripoensis''''' is a species of plant in the family Acanthaceae which is endemic to Trinidad and Tobago. The species is only known from the Heights of Aripo, in Trinidad's Northern Range. It is a branching shrub, 1–1.5 m tall with red flowers about 3&nbsp;cm long.<ref name = Britton>{{cite journal| last = Britton| first = Nathaniel Lord| author-link = Nathaniel Lord Britton| year = 1926| title = Studies of West Indian Plants-XIII| journal = Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club| volume = 53| issue = 7| pages = 457–71| jstor = 2480026| doi = 10.2307/2480026| publisher = Torrey Botanical Society}}</ref>

The species was described as ''Diapedium aripoense'' by American botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton in 1926, based on a collection made by Walter Elias Broadway in 1922.<ref name = Britton/> American botanist Emery Clarence Leonard transferred the species to the genus ''Dicliptera'' in 1954.<ref name = IPNI/>

==Conservation status== Although ''Dicliptera aripoensis'' 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 a critically endangered because it is known from only a single locality, and this area is shrinking or experiencing habitat degradation.<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 = 3| pages = 400–07| doi = 10.1017/S0030605308007321| doi-access = free}}</ref>

==See also== * Endemic flora of Trinidad and Tobago

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aripoensis Category:Critically endangered flora of South America Category:Endemic flora of Trinidad and Tobago Category:Taxa named by Nathaniel Lord Britton

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