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Gendarussa diosmophylla

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Name

Identification
Gendarussa diosmophylla Nees [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Nees s.d.,
Related name
  • Justicia orchioides
  • Gendarussa diosmophylla

Flora

Entry for JUSTICIA orchioides Linn. f. [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 orchioides Linn. f. [family ACANTHACEAE], Suppl. 85;—Thunb. Prod. 104, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 479; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 349.
JUSTICIA diosmophylla Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 349.
JUSTICIA patula T. Anders. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 42; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 349; Lichtenst. in Roem. et Schult. Syst. i. 164?
JUSTICIA orchioides E. Meyer var. a [family ACANTHACEAE], in Drège Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 138, 196.
Gendarussa patula Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in Linnæa, xv. 371.
Gendarussa orchioides Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in Linnæa, xv. 369? incl. var. β.
Gendarussa pygmæa Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in Linnæa, xv. 369.
Gendarussa Linaria Nees ex Drège [family ACANTHACEAE], in Linnæa, xx. 200?
Gendarussa diosmophylla Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in Linnæa, xv. 370; Drège in Linnæa, xx. 200.
Adhatoda patula Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in DC. Prod. xi. 393.
Adhatoda pygmæa Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in DC. Prod. xi. 394.
Adhatoda diosmophylla Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in DC. Prod. xi. 394; Sonder in Linnæa, xxiii. 94.
Adhatoda orchioides Nees var. latifolia [family ACANTHACEAE], in DC. Prod. xi. 393.
Information
a rugged undershrub, 8–24 in. high; branches many, nearly all alternate, woody, often 1/4 in. in diam., glabrous or obscurely puberulous at the tips; leaves 1/8– 1/2 in. long, subsessile, oblong elliptic or ovate, puberulous or glabrate, tip obtuse or acute, base narrowed-ovate or truncate; pedicels 0– 1/6 in. long, few, scattered; bracteoles shorter than the calyx and distant from it in the wild plant; calyx scarcely 1/6 in. long; lobes lanceolate with white margins, nearly glabrous not glandular (in Bolus, 672, the calyx is minutely hairy, but scarcely glandular); corolla 1/3– 1/2 in. long, white, hairy outside; lower anther-cell half-way below the other, with a long clavate tail; pollen ellipsoid, with 2 stopples, longitudinally 6–8-ribbed, hardly banded, without tubercles; ovary glabrous; style thinly hairy in the lower half; capsule 1/2 in. long, normally 4-seeded; seeds tuberculate-rugose. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; between Great and Little Fish Rivers, 2000–3000 ft., Drège! Graaff Reinet Div.; plains near Graaff Reinet, 2500 ft., Bolus, 688!COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; Lange Kloof, 400 ft., Schlechter, 8052! Uitenhage Div.; at Commando Kraal, Burke! by the Sunday River, near Commando Kraal, Bolus, 2677! by the Sunday River, Ecklon & Zeyher, 860! Zeyher, 1392! Port Elizabeth Div.; near Port Elizabeth, Baur, 109! Alexandria Div.; near Enon, Baur, 1051! Albany Div.; in dry thickets, Bowie, 149!SOUTH AFRICA without precise locality, Zeyher, 1394!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; between Annenous and Abbeolakte, 700 ft., MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 672!
Notes
J. orchioides, Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 51, of which there are dried examples at Kew, is probably a cultivated state of J. patula, T. Anders.; it is larger in all its parts; some leaves exceed 3/4 in. in length; some pedicels are nearly 1/4 in. long, and have 2 bracts near the calyx, which is hairy; the corolla is 2/3– 3/4 in. long; Ventenat says the seeds were 4 or 5.— J. patula, Lichtenst. in Roem. et Schultes Syst. i. 164, can only be guessed at from the description, which says that the branches were all opposite and the bracts at the base of the calyx glandular; these points strongly suggest that Lichtenstein's patula was Drège's J. patula, b which was Nees' J. orchioides, a.

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