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Barleria hystrix

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Name

Identification
Barleria hystrix L. [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Nees s.d.,
Related name
  • Barleria hystrix
  • Barleria bispinosa
  • Barleria prionitis
  • Barleria induta

Flora

Entry for BARLERIA Prionitis Linn. [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
BARLERIA Prionitis Linn. [family ACANTHACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 636, ed. ii. 887;—Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 237; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 28 (only as to non-African plants); C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 482, and in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 145; Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 63, t. 1, fig. 29, and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 314, fig. 105, C, fig. 106, B, and fig. 125, E.
BARLERIA Hystrix Linn. [family ACANTHACEAE], Mant. 89.
BARLERIA prionitoides Engl. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. x. 262.
Information
glabrous or nearly so; stems 1–3 ft. high; leaves 2–5 by 1/3–1 in., elliptic, narrowed at both ends, mucronate; petiole 0– 1/3 in. long; interpetiolar spines (i.e. basal bracts to the inflorescence of the succeeding year) simple, rigid, 1/4– 3/4 in. long; inflorescence reduced nearly to a simple spike; lower flowers more or less distant, sometimes 2 in each axil; flower-bract similar to the external bract, but rather longer, dilated lanceolate at the base; posticous sepal nearly 1/2 in. long, elliptic, acuminate, mucronate, without teeth on its margins; anticous calyx-segment resembling the posticous sepal sometimes ending in 2 short spinous teeth; corolla yellow; tube hardly 1/2 in. long; posticous lip of 4 connate segments 2/3–1 in. long; anticous segment clawed, shorter; capsule 1/2– 2/3 in. long, ovoid-conic, beaked, 2-seeded. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa and Asia.
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Inkumpi River, Nelson, 370! Olifants River, Nelson, 400!
Notes
This plant is often cultivated, and spreads as a weed.

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