Rhaphiodon echinus

This article is about a species and genus of plants. For the species and genus of fish, see Biara.

Rhaphiodon echinus is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, endemic to eastern Brazil. It is the only known species in the genus Rhaphiodon, first described as a plant genus in 1844.^[1][2][3]

Rhaphiodon echinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Lamiaceae
Subfamily:	Nepetoideae
Tribe:	Ocimeae
Genus:	Rhaphiodon Schauer
Species:	R. echinus
Binomial name
Rhaphiodon echinus (Nees & Mart.) Schauer
Synonyms[1]
Raphiodon Benth. Zappania echinus Nees & Mart. Lippia echinus (Nees & Mart.) Spreng. Hyptis sideritis Mart. ex Benth. Mesosphaerum sideritis (Mart. ex Benth.) Kuntze