Dicliptera squarrosa is a species of flowering plant in the acanthus family, Acanthaceae.

It is a scrambling subshrub native to Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, northern Argentina, Uruguay, and southern, southeastern, and west-central Brazil,[1] including the Cerrado ecoregion of Brazil.

This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.

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