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Adhatoda capensis

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Identification
Adhatoda capensis (Thunb.) Nees [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Nees s.d.,
Related name
  • Adhatoda capensis
  • Justicia capensis
  • Monechma nepetoides
  • Monechma divaricatum

Flora

Entry for JUSTICIA capensis Thunb. [family ACANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 1, (1912) Author: By C. B. CLARKE.
Names
JUSTICIA capensis Thunb. [family ACANTHACEAE], Prod. 104;—Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 478; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 41; Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. x. 264; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 349.
JUSTICIA amygdalina E. Meyer var. a [family ACANTHACEAE], in Drège, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 129, 195.
JUSTICIA oleæfolia Schlechtend. ex Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in DC. Prod. xi. 391; E. Meyer in Drège, l.c. 151, 196.
Gendarussa capensis Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in Linnæa, xv. 366, including var. β; Drège in Linnæa, xx. 200; Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. (1840) 126.
Adhatoda capensis Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in DC. Prod. xi. 391, excl. var. arenosa.
Information
a rather stout shrub, attaining 3–5 ft. in height; branches quadrangular, densely hairy when young, more or less glabrate in age, not rarely with the 2 opposite faces hairy, the alternate glabrous; leaves 1–2 1/2 by 2/3–1 in., elliptic, hairy on both surfaces, becoming glabrate except on the nerves, tip rounded, base cuneate; petiole hardly any; flowers axillary, distant, but often 2–3 under 1 floral leaf, minutely pedicelled, without other bract; bracteoles obsolete; calyx 1/6 in. long, 5-partite to the base; segments linear; corolla 2/3 in. long, reddish (Kensit); one anther-cell below the other, tailed (in one example the anther-cells are nearly at equal height, both equally short-tailed); pollen ellipsoid with 2 stopples and 1 row of tubercles on either side of each stopple; pistil glabrous; capsule 3/4 in. in length and upwards, 4-seeded; seeds tubercular-rugose. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Alexandria Div; Zwartwater Poort, Burchell, 3399! Somerset Div.; near Somerset East, Bowker!COAST REGION Uitenhage Div.; Cannon Hill, Kensit, 9! by the Zwartkops River, below 500 ft., Drège! Ecklon & Zeyher, 82! in thickets bordering the plains, Bowie! near the mouths of the Coega and Zwartkops Rivers, Zeyher, 3593! East London Div.; near the month of the Kei River, 200 ft., Flanagan, 2350! British Kaffraria, Cooper, 136, 394!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; Groot Boetsap, 4000 ft., Marloth, 1076 (fide Engler).

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