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Barleria ventricosa

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Name

Identification
Barleria mollis R.Br. [family ACANTHACEAE ] Barleria ventricosa Nees [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Clarke,C.B.,
Related name
  • Barleria mollis
  • Barleria stuhlmannii
  • Barleria ventricosa

Flora

Entry for BARLERIA ventricosa Hochst. ex Nees [family ACANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
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]
Names
BARLERIA ventricosa Hochst. ex Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], (1847).
Information
Perennial herb, straggling and up to 40 cm tall or more, moderately branched; stems greyish green with a fairly dense indumentum of spreading up to c. 1 mm long eglandular hairs. Leaf-blades narrowly ovate, up to 20–35 x 12–13 mm, softly pubescent with 0.8–1 mm long spreading to somewhat antrorse hairs, dense on young leaves and buds, apex obtuse to apiculate, base shortly attenuate to truncate; petiole up to c. 13–20 mm long. Flowers single in leaf-axils; peduncle and pedicel each c. 1 mm long; bracts leaf-like; bracteoles linear to oblanceolate, up to 6–10 x 0.5–2.5 mm. Calyx green with indumentum as for leaves; outer lobes narrowly ovate to ovate, ± equal, up to 8–17 x 4–11 mm, entire, the anterior 2-fid for 2–5 mm at the apex. Corolla campanulate, blue-lilac, 18–32 mm long. Capsule blackish, 2-seeded, up to 10–11.5 mm long, glabrous.
Range
N1, 2 eastern tropical Africa
Altitude range
1580–1680 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 4574; Bally 10238, 11101.
Distribution (external)
Eritrea
Djibouti
Ethiopia
Sudan
Yemen
Notes
Differs from B. micrantha by having softly pubescent, entire outer calyx-lobes.

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