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Justicia anselliana

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Name

Identification
Justicia kapiriensis De Wild. [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Justicia anselliana (Nees) T.Anderson [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Ensermu Kelbessa, 1990
Related name
  • Adhatoda anselliana
  • Dianthera unrecorded
  • Justicia kapiriensis
  • Tyloglossa anselliana
  • Rhytiglossa pectoralis
  • Justicia lorata
  • Justicia anselliana

Flora

Entry for JUSTICIA matammensis Oliv. [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 matammensis Oliv. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 130;—C. B. Clarke in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 209.
JUSTICIA anselliana Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 283, fig. 112, D, E.
Information
softly white hairy on the stems, at the nodes and the base of the leaves; branches 8–12 in. long, divided, weak; leaves 1 1/4 by 1/4– 1/3 in., elliptic or subovate; peduncles numerous, 1–1 3/4 in. long, bearing in the upper half 3–5 separate (mostly alternate) flowers; bracts or bracteoles linear, smaller than the calyx; calyx-lobes 1/8 in. long, linear, nearly glabrous; corolla 1/4 in. long; capsule 1/3 in. long, glabrate, with 4 rugose seeds. null
Range
Common in Tropical Africa, south to Matabeleland.
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Hammans Kraal, 4400 ft., Schlechter, 4203!
Notes
It represents the section Ansellia, T. Anders., which Bentham (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 1113) placed under the genus Dianthera.

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