Aegiphila monstrosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae.França, F. and A. M. Giulietti. (2012). Lectotypifications, neotypifications, and epitypification in the genus Aegiphila Jacq. Neodiversity 6 1-14. It is a shrub native to southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. It grows in lowland and lower montane semi-evergreen and evergreen rain forest, floodplain forest, marshes, and mangrove swamps. It is threatened by loss of habitat to agriculture.
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