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Justicia diffusa

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Name

Identification
Justicia diffusa Willd. [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Rostellularia bankaoensis Bremek. [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Justicia vahlii
  • Justicia repens
  • Justicia diffusa
  • Rostellularia palustris
  • Barleria pumila
  • Justicia linanfolia
  • Justicia simplex
  • Rostellularia abyssinica
  • Justicia procumbens
  • Rostellularia ramosissima
  • Rostellaria rotundifolia
  • Rostellularia bankaoensis
  • Rostellularia rotundifolia
  • Rostellaria pumila
  • Rostellularia vahliana

Flora

Entry for Justicia diffusa Willd. [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 diffusa Willd. [family ACANTHACEAE], Sp. Pl. i. 87. —T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 512; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 538.
Justicia procumbens Linn. [family ACANTHACEAE], Fl. Zeyl. 7, at least in part; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 40; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 393.
Justicia simplex Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 349.
Rostellularia diffusa Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 100, and in DC. Prod. xi. 371.
Rostellularia abyssinica Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in DC. Prod. xi. 372; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 153.
Barleria pumila Hochst. ex Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in DC. Prod. xi. 372.
Information
Stems 8–24 in. long, weak, hairy. Leaves 1 1/2 by 1/2– 3/4 in., elliptic or ovate, narrowed at either end, sparsely hairy; petiole 0– 1/5 in. long. Spikes 1–1 1/2 by 1/4– 1/3 in., sparsely hairy; bracts 1/5 in. long, narrow-lanceolate, green with scarious margins; bracteoles similar to the bracts but smaller. Sepals 4, 1/6 in. long, narrow-lanceolate. Corolla 1/4 in. long, purple or rose. Filaments glabrous; one anther-cell below the other, tailed; pollen ellipsoid, with 2 longitudinal bands, not tubercled. Ovary nearly glabrous; style thinly hairy, branches 2, subequal, minute. Capsule 1/5 in. long, 4-seeded, minutely hairy (at least on the top and sutures); seeds with simple tubercles all over.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Tigre; lower part of Mount Sholoda, Schimper, 21! on mountains near Axum, Schimper, 1524! and without precise locality, Schimper, 639! Quartin-Dillon & Petit, 285!
Notes
All this African material is alike, but in matching it against the numerous sub-species of J. procumbens found in India, different views have been taken, some uniting it with J. simplex, D. Don.

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