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Adhatoda tristis

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Name

Identification
Adhatoda tristis Nees [family ACANTHACEAE ] Justicia tristis (Nees) T.Anderson [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Adhatoda auriculata S.Moore [family ACANTHACEAE ]
Related name
  • Justicia tristis
  • Adhatoda auriculata
  • Adhatoda tristis

Flora

Entry for ADHATODA tristis Nees [family ACANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, page 1, (1900) Author: (By I. H. Burkill and C. B. Clarke.)
Names
ADHATODA tristis Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in DC. Prod. xi. 404. — Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 484.
Justicia tristis T. Anders. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 38.
Information
Herbaceous up to 4 ft. high; innovations densely fulvous-hairy. Leaves 9 by 4 1/2 in., shortly acuminate, when mature pubescent on the nerves beneath, base triangular; petiole 1–2 1/2 in. long. Spikes in the upper axils 6 by 1/2 in., interrupted at the base, not strobilate; bracts scarcely 1/3 in. long, lanceolate; bracteoles similar, smaller. Sepals 5, 1/3 in. long or more, linear. Corolla 3/4 in. long, purple. Filaments very hairy; one anther-cell much lower than the other; base acute, hardly mucronate; pollen ellipsoid, longitudinally banded, with single rows of spots on each side of each stopple. Ovary shaggy; style hairy. Capsule more than 1 in. long, stalk 1/2 in. long; seeds 4.
Distribution
Cameroons Upper Guinea Bipinde, Zenker, 1043!Fernando Po Upper Guinea Vogel, 161! Mann, 165!

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