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Justicia anagalloides

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Name

Identification
Justicia anagalloides (Nees) T.Anderson [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Justicia psammophila Mildbr. [family ACANTHACEAE ]
Related name
  • Rostellaria unrecorded
  • Adhatoda anagalloides
  • Justicia uncinulata
  • Justicia crassiradix
  • Justicia anagalloides
  • Tyloglossa anagalloides
  • Justicia psammophila

Flora

Entry for JUSTICIA anagalloides T. Anders. [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 anagalloides T. Anders. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 42
Adhatoda anagalloides Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in DC. Prod. xi. 403.
Information
branches 6–16 in. long, weak, pubescent or hispid, often in lines; leaves 2/3 by 1/4 in., when mature nearly glabrous, tip obtuse, base cuneate; petiole 0– 1/8 in. long; peduncles scattered, 1/4–1 in. long, with 2 or 3 flowers near the top; bracteoles linear, shorter than the calyx; calyx 1/4 in. long, 5-lobed to the base; segments linear, nearly glabrous; corolla 1/3 in. long, white; lower anther-cell with a clavate tail; pollen ellipsoid with 2 stopples and 1 row of tubercles on either side of each stopple; style-base and top of ovary hairy; capsule more than 1/4 in. long, ellipsoid, widened upwards, glabrate, 4-seeded; seeds tubercular-rugose. null
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Apies River, Burke! Macmac Creek, Mudd! Saddleback Range, near Barberton, 4000–5000 ft., Galpin, 682! Elands Fontein, near Johannisburg, 5500 ft., Gilfillan, 1418! near Lydenburg, Atherstone! Wilms, 1201! Hoogeveld, near Standerton, Wilms, 1201b! Mooifontein, 5500 ft., Schlechter, 3565!
Notes
T. Anderson cites (Journ. Linn. Soc. l.c.) Adhatoda patula, Nees in part, as a synonym.

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