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Barleria bispinosa

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Name

Identification
Barleria bispinosa (Forssk.) Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by D. Hillcoat, 1973 Justicia bispinosa Forssk. [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Barleria trispinosa
  • Justicia subregularis
  • Justicia trispinosa
  • Barleria hystrix
  • Barleria spinicyma
  • Barleria bispinosa
  • Barleria prionitis
  • Justicia bispinosa
  • Barleria induta
  • Barleria biradiata

Flora

Entry for BARLERIA induta C. B. Clarke [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
BARLERIA induta C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
BARLERIA Prionitis [family ACANTHACEAE], Herb. Linn. partly, not of Linn. Sp. Plant.
BARLERIA Hystrix Nees β oblongifolia [family ACANTHACEAE], in DC. Prod. xi. 239.
BARLERIA bispinosa Hochst. ex Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in DC. Prod. xi. 239; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 27, not of Vahl.
BARLERIA diacantha Solms-Laub. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 106, from description.
Information
Densely shortly villous or fuscous-tomentose. Stems 4–5 ft. high, stout. Leaves 1 1/2 by 1/2 in., elliptic, narrowed at both ends, subsessile, thick, when mature glabrous above, without cystoliths, densely villous beneath. Spines and inflorescence as of B. Prionitis. Posticous sepal 1/2 in. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, entire, densely villous nearly to the mucronate tip, in fruit rigid, thick, recurved. Capsule 3/4 in. long and upwards, rostrate, 2-seeded; other wise as B. Prionitis.
Distribution
Eritrea Nile Land Bogos, 6000 ft., Hildebrandt, 450!Abyssinia Nile Land Adowa, Schimper, 208! and without precise locality, Herb. Linnæus! Salt! Schimper, 782!
Notes
B. bispinosa, Vahl, is an Arabian plant with pale-purple flowers. B. induta is very near B. Prionitis except as to the many hairs permanent on the leaves.

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