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Justicia whytei

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Type? of Justicia whytei S.Moore [family ACANTHACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Justicia whytei S.Moore [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Justicia whytei

Flora

Entry for Justicia Whytei 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 Whytei S. Moore [family ACANTHACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. iv. 32. —Lindau in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 373.
Justicia Rostellaria Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 349, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 373, in great part.
Justicia fruticulosa Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 349, partly.
Information
Rootstock stout, woody; branches 1–2 ft. long, hairy. Leaves lanceolate, lower often ovate, hairy; petiole 0– 1/4 in. long, mostly very short. Flowers axillary, 1–3 together. Sepals 1/5 in. long, linear, acute, hairy. Corolla 1/2 in. long, purple. Pollen of Justicia with 3 stopples (Lindau) or with 2 (in example supplied by Lindau). Capsule exceeding 1/4 in. long, hairy.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Karagwe; Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 4124Kilimanjaro Mozamb. Dist. Lake Chala, Volkens, 319! and Marangu, 5000 ft., Volkens, 711! Usambara, Holst, 8914! 8935 partly!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Shire Highlands, on Mount Ndirandi, Scott-Elliot, 8467! Mount Mlanje, Whyte! 136! Masuka Plateau, 6500–7000 ft., Whyte! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 304! 641! 711!Eritrea Nile Land Erkowit Mountain, Schweinfurth, 256!British East Africa Nile Land Lykipia, Thomson! near Lake Naivasha, 6000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 7038! Ukamba, Scott-Elliot, 6306 partly! 6489!Cameroons Upper Guinea 4000 ft., Passarge, 129!
Notes
In the examples called J. Rostellaria by Lindau, the leaves are more ovate than in the type J. Whytei (with lanceolate leaves); but the acute linear sepals and hairy capsule do not bring it near J. calcarata. The other part of Scott-Elliot, 6306, is Disperma kilimandscharicum.

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