Entry for PETALIDIUM coccineum S. Moore [family ACANTHACEAE]
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, page 1, (1900) Author: (By I. H. Burkill and C. B. Clarke.)
Names
PETALIDIUM coccineum S. Moore [family ACANTHACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1880, 225, 228.
Pseudobarleria coccinea Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B. 299.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Mossamedes, Welwitsch ,, 5017! 5018! Huilla, Antunes, 90! in thickets by the River Cunene, Schinz, 10! Humbe, banks of the River Cunene, and Chiviqua, Newton!Amboland Lower Guinea Ondonga, Schinz!
Notes
Lindau esteems this species a Pseudobarleria, in doing which he abandons the only character (viz., the degree of union of 2 anticous calyx-segments) on which the genus Pseudobarleria stands. The analogy of the allied genera, Dyschoriste, Ruellia, &c., warns us that the character need not be made generic.