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Gymnostachyum ceylanicum Arn. & Nees [family ACANTHACEAE]

Gymnostachyum ceylanicum Arn. & Nees [family ACANTHACEAE]

Collector Walker, A.W., #213
Collection Date None
Resource Type Specimens
Country Sri Lanka
Herbarium K
Identifications Gymnostachyum ceylanicum Arn. & Nees [family ACANTHACEAE] (stored under name); Verified by Cramer, D.,
Elytraria unrecorded Michx. [family ACANTHACEAE]
Elytraria acaulis Druce [family ACANTHACEAE]
Filed as Elytraria marginata Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE]

Filed as Elytraria marginata Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE]

Collector A. Léonard, #1142
Collection Date 1988-08-28
Resource Type Specimens
Country Congo, the Democratic Republic of the
Herbarium IFAN
Identifications Elytraria marginata Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE] (stored under name); Verified by S. Koma, 2008/09/11
Elytraria acaulis Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE]
Filed as Elytraria acaulis Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE]

Filed as Elytraria acaulis Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE]

Collector J. L. Tournier, #s.n.
Collection Date 1945-05-01
Resource Type Specimens
Country Côte d'Ivoire
Herbarium IFAN
Identifications Elytraria acaulis Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE] (stored under name); Verified by Sauvageot, 1951/08/15
Type? of Justicia acaulis L.f. [family ACANTHACEAE]

Type? of Justicia acaulis L.f. [family ACANTHACEAE]

Collector König, J.G., #s.n.
Collection Date None
Resource Type Specimens
Country India
Herbarium LD
Identifications Type? of Justicia acaulis L.f. [family ACANTHACEAE] (stored under name); Verified by Agardh, C.A.
Elytraria crenata Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE]
Justicia acaulis L.f. [family ACANTHACEAE]; Verified by Fischer, C.E.C., 1931
Elytraria acaulis Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE]; Verified by Fischer, C.E.C., 1931
Type? of Justicia acaulis L.f. [family ACANTHACEAE]

Type? of Justicia acaulis L.f. [family ACANTHACEAE]

Collector König, J.G., #s.n.
Collection Date None
Resource Type Specimens
Country India
Herbarium LD
Identifications Type? of Justicia acaulis L.f. [family ACANTHACEAE] (stored under name); Verified by Agardh
Elytraria sp. [family ACANTHACEAE]; Verified by Agardh
Elytraria acaulis Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE]; Verified by Fischer, C.E.C., 1931
Elytraria crenata Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE]

Elytraria crenata Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE]

Collector s.coll., #Cat. no. 2420
Collection Date None
Resource Type Specimens
Herbarium K
Identifications Elytraria crenata Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE] (stored under name)
Elytraria crenata Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE]

Elytraria crenata Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE]

Collector s.coll., #Cat. no. 2420
Collection Date None
Resource Type Specimens
Herbarium K
Identifications Elytraria crenata Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE] (stored under name)
Elytraria crenata Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE]

Elytraria crenata Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE]

Collector s.coll., #Cat. no. 2420
Collection Date None
Resource Type Specimens
Herbarium K
Identifications Elytraria crenata Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE] (stored under name)
Elytraria crenata Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE]

Elytraria crenata Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE]

Collector s.coll., #Cat. no. 2420
Collection Date None
Resource Type Specimens
Herbarium K
Identifications Elytraria crenata Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE] (stored under name)
Justicia acaulis L.f. [family ACANTHACEAE]

Justicia acaulis L.f. [family ACANTHACEAE]

Collector Linné, C. von, #s.n.
Collection Date None
Resource Type Specimens
Country India
Herbarium LD
Identifications Justicia acaulis L.f. [family ACANTHACEAE] (stored under name)
Elytraria acaulis Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE]
Elytraria crenata Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE]

Elytraria crenata Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE]

Collector s.coll., #Cat. no. 2420
Collection Date None
Resource Type Specimens
Country India
Herbarium K
Identifications Elytraria crenata Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE] (stored under name)
Isotype of Elytraria acaulis (L.f.) Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE]

Isotype of Elytraria acaulis (L.f.) Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE]

Collector HEPPER, F.N., #1393
Collection Date 1957-11-01
Resource Type Specimens
Country Nigeria
Herbarium FHI
Identifications Isotype of Elytraria acaulis (L.f.) Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE] (stored under name); Verified by Ugbogu, O.A., 2006/06
Isotype of Elytraria minor Dokosi [family ACANTHACEAE]

Isotype of Elytraria minor Dokosi [family ACANTHACEAE]

Collector Greenway, P.J.; Rawlins, S.P., #9366
Collection Date 18-10-1957
Resource Type Specimens
Country Kenya
Herbarium K
Identifications Elytraria unrecorded unrecorded [family ACANTHACEAE]
Isotype of Elytraria minor Dokosi [family ACANTHACEAE] (stored under name); Verified by Vollesen, K.,
Elytraria acaulis (L.f) Lindau var. lyrata (Vahl) Bremek. [family ACANTHACEAE]; Verified by Hossain, E.,
Elytraria marginata Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE]

Elytraria marginata Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE]

Entry From Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 2,
Contributor Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Resource Type Reference Sources
Information Stem up to 9 in. high, with small white or bluish flowers 1/4-1/3 in. long in narrow stiff spikes with sharp-pointed bracts.
Elytraria acaulis (L.f.) Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE]

Elytraria acaulis (L.f.) Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE]

Entry From Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2008) Author: Kaj Vollesen
Contributor Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Resource Type Reference Sources
Range DISTR. U 2; K 1, 7; T 6, 8
Information Acaulescent perennial herb with a short creeping sometimes branched rootstock; apical part of rootstock (where leaves attached) with long (up to 3 mm) strigose hairs. Leaves in a basal rosette, subsessile (rarely with petiole up to 4(–6) cm long); lamina elliptic to obovate, largest 5–18≈2.5–6.5 cm, apex subacute to broadly rounded, base attenuate, decurrent, margin subentire to crenate-dentate on apical part, subentire to sinuate-incised on basal part; below crisped-puberulous to pilose or sparsely so along midrib (sparser along lateral veins), glabrous on lamina, above with similar indumentum and ± scattered hairs on lamina. Spikes 2–10 cm long, branched or unbranched; peduncle 6–20 cm long; sterile bracts imbricate, ovate, 4.5–7 mm long, acuminate, glabrous but for the finely ciliate margin; fertile bracts pale green with white scarious margin, broadly ovate 5–8 mm long, acuminate to cuspidate, with similar indum; bracteoles elliptic or narrowly so, 3.5–5 mm long, acuminate, crisped-puberulous in a central band and ciliate towards apex. Sepals ciliate near apex, otherwise glabrous; dorsal ovate-elliptic, 4–5 mm long, subacute to acute; lateral and ventral lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 4–5.5 mm long, acute to acuminate, sometimes with a small dorsifixed mucro. Corolla white, when fully developed with tube 5–7 mm long and lobes 2–3 mm long; cleistogamous flowers not seen in East African material, but common in southern Africa. Stamens 2; filaments ± 1 mm long; anthers ± 1 mm long, with sagittate base, slightly smaller in cleistogamous flowers. Stigma oblong-spathulate and erect in open flowers, rounded or reniform and bent in cleistogamous flowers. Capsule 5.5–6.5 mm long, glabrous. Seed ± 1 mm long.
ELYTRARIA acaulis (L. f.) Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE]

ELYTRARIA acaulis (L. f.) Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE]

Entry From Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by M. Hedrén (Asystasia, Barleria, Duosperma, Hypoestes, Ichthyostoma, Isoglossa, Justicia, Lepidagathis, Peristrophe, Ruellia, Ruspolia) and M. Thulin (Acanthus, Anisotes, Blepharis, Crabbea, Crossandra, Dicliptera, Dyschoriste, Ecbolium, Elytraria, Megalochlamys, Neuracanthus, Rhinacanthus, Ruttya, Satanocrater, Thunbergia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Contributor Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Resource Type Reference Sources
Range S1, 3 widespread in tropical Africa and southern Asia.
Information Leaves oblanceolate to spathulate, 5–26 x 1–7.5 cm, obtuse to subacute at the apex, attenuate at the base, with entire to sinuate or crenate margins. Spikes several, 5–32 cm high including peduncle, often branched at the base; bracts ovate-acuminate, 4–5 mm long, ciliate; bracteoles lanceolate. Calyx c. 4 mm long; lobes lanceolate. Corolla 6–8 mm long, white or pale blue. Capsule c. 4 mm long.
Elytraria marginata Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE]

Elytraria marginata Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE]

Entry From Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2008) Author: Kaj Vollesen
Contributor Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Resource Type Reference Sources
Range DISTR. U 2, 4 West Africa to S Sudan and south to Angola
Information Annual or short-lived perennial herb, basal part of stem creeping and rooting, apical part erect, 2–18 cm long, subglabrous to crisped-puberulous. Leaves sometimes mottled, in a terminal rosette (rarely an extra whorl of leaves on middle part of stem), subsessile or petiole up to 5(–10) mm long; lamina elliptic-obovate, largest 7–17≈2.5–5.5 cm, apex acute to subacute, base attenuate to cuneate, margin entire to faintly crenate; below sparsely crisped-puberulous along veins, above with sparse long hairs along midrib and uniformly scattered hairs on lamina. Spikes 2–13 cm long, unbranched (rarely branched); peduncle 1–8 cm long; sterile bracts not imbricate or ± imbricate towards apex of peduncle, broadly ovate-elliptic, 3–6 mm long, acute to acuminate, glabrous but for finely ciliate margin, indistinctly keeled; fertile bracts green with scarious white margin, broadly ovate-elliptic, 4.5–7 mm long, acute to acuminate, glabrous but for finely ciliate margin, indistinctly keeled; bracteoles lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 3–4 mm long, subacute to acute, crisped-puberulous in a central band and finely ciliate near apex. Sepals 4–5 mm long, ciliate in apical half, otherwise glabrous; dorsal elliptic or broadly so, acute; lateral elliptic or narrowly so, with a dorsally attached seta ± 1 mm long; ventral lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, acute to acuminate. Corolla white, often cleistogamous or only opening partially; tube 3–4 mm long; lobes 2–3 mm long. Stamens 2, subsessile; anthers ± 0.5 mm long. Stigma erect and spathulate or rounded and ± bent in cleistogamous flowers. Capsule 4–5 mm long, glabrous. Seed ± 0.75 mm long. Fig. 1, 8–9, p. 13.
Elytraria minor Dokosi [family ACANTHACEAE]

Elytraria minor Dokosi [family ACANTHACEAE]

Entry From Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2008) Author: Kaj Vollesen
Contributor Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Resource Type Reference Sources
Range DISTR. K 7; T 3, 6 not known elsewhere
Information Acaulescent perennial herb with a short creeping or suberect sometimes branched rootstock, apical part (where leaves attached) with short (under 1 mm long) puberulous hairs. Leaves in a basal rosette, appressed to the ground, often variegated with pale green areas along midrib and lateral veins, subsessile or with petiole up to 1.5(–2) cm long; lamina lyrate, obovate-spathulate in outline, terminal segment elliptic to orbicular, largest 2.5–10≈1–4.2 cm, apex subacute to truncate, base attenuate, decurrent, margin on terminal segment entire to crenate; below sparsely puberulous along midrib and lateral veins and often with very fine scattered hairs on lamina, above with sparse curly hairs on midrib and usually scattered hairs on lamina. Spikes 1.5–6.5(–9) cm long, unbranched or branched; peduncle 1–7.5(–9.5) cm long; sterile bracts imbricate, ovate, 3–5.5(–6) mm long, acuminate to cuspidate, glabrous but for a finely ciliate margin, very finely rugose on back, indistinctly keeled; fertile bracts green or pale green, broadly ovate, 5–6.5 mm long, acuminate to cuspidate, ± a narrow scarious margin, glabrous but for a finely ciliate margin, sometimes indistinctly keeled; bracteoles lanceolate, 3–4 mm long (including a dorsally attached mucro up to 1 mm long), acuminate, crisped-puberulous in a central band and finely ciliate near apex. Sepals ciliate near apex, otherwise glabrous; dorsal elliptic, 3–4 mm long, broadly rounded to truncate (rarely subacute); lateral and ventral lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 3.5–4.5 mm long (including a dorsally attached mucro 0.5–1 mm long). Corolla white or cream, often cleistogamous or apparently only opening partially; tube 2–3.5 mm long; lobes 1.5–3 mm long, sometimes bifid. Stamens 2, subsessile; anthers ± 0.5 mm long. Capsule 4–5 mm long, glabrous. Seed ± 0.75 mm long, pitted. Fig. 1, 1–7, p. 13.

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