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Justicia fittonioides

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Name

Identification
Justicia fittonioides S.Moore [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Vollesen,K., Justicia dolichopoda Mildbr. [family ACANTHACEAE ]
Related name
  • Justicia callopsoidea
  • Justicia dolichopoda
  • Justicia unrecorded
  • Justicia fittonioides

Flora

Entry for JUSTICIA fittonioides S. Moore [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
JUSTICIA fittonioides S. Moore [family ACANTHACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1878, 134.
Nicoteba fittonioides Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 329, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 370.
Information
Nearly stem-less. Leaves 5 by 4 in., round ellipsoid, white-blotched, glabrous, minutely pubescent on the nerves beneath, base cordate; petiole 1/2–2 in. long. Peduncle axillary 2–4 1/2 in. long. Spike up to 2 by 3/4 in., interrupted; floral leaves 1/4 in. long, ovate, with 1–4 flowers (a condensed cyme); bract to flower 1/5 in. long, linear-oblong. Sepals 5, 1/8 in. long, linear, pubescent. Corolla scarcely 1/3 in. long. Filaments glabrous; one anther-cell much lower than the other, tailed; pollen ellipsoid, with 3 stopples, the longitudinal ribs obscure, not reaching the pole. Ovary minutely hairy; style-base thinly hairy. Capsule 2/3– 3/4 in. long, glabrous or nearly so, 4-seeded; stalk 1/4– 1/3 in. long, solid, rather slender; seeds rough; placentæ not rising elastically.
Distribution
British East Africa Nile Land Nyika country near Mombasa, Wakefield!
Notes
This is placed in Betonica by S. Moore, and in Nicoteba by Lindau. The pollen is right for Nicoteba, but the “bracts” described by S. Moore are not homologous with the bracts of J. Betonica .

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