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Justicia ecbolium

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Name

Identification
Justicia ecbolium L. [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Ecbolium linneanum Kurz [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Henry Trimen, Ecbolium ligustrinum (Vahl) Vollesen [family ACANTHACEAE ]
Related name
  • Justicia ecbolium
  • Ecbolium ligustrinum
  • Graptophyllum pictum
  • Ecbolium viride
  • Justicia indet.
  • Ecbolium linnaeanum
  • Ecbolium linneanum

Flora

Entry for ECBOLIUM linneanum Kurz [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
ECBOLIUM linneanum Kurz [family ACANTHACEAE], in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xl. part 2 (1871), 75. —Boiss. Fl. Or. iv. 526; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 544; Schweinf. & Volkens, Liste Pl. Somalis, 17; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 338, Fig. 135, G, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 371.
Justicia Ecbolium Linn. [family ACANTHACEAE], Sp. Plant. 15; Bot. Mag. t. 1847; Wight, Ic. t. 463; Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 426; Solms-Laub. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 111.
Eranthemum Ecbolium T. Anders. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 235.
Information
Leaves often 3 by 1/3 in., tip triangular, obtuse, base narrowed, glabrous or obscurely puberulous; petiole 0– 1/6 in. long; leaves varying from narrowly oblong to broadly ovate, also much in size. Spikes often 4 by 1 in., strobilate; bract 3/4 by 2/3 in., ovate, apiculate, often pubescent, entire or nearly so in the African examples, often strongly toothed in the Indian; bracteoles 1/4 in. long, linear, hairy. Calyx 1/5 in. long. Corolla-tube 3/4–1 in. long, linear to the top; lobes of anticous lip 3, 1/3– 1/2 in. long, elliptic; posticous lip 1/3– 1/2 by 1/24 in. upwards, notched at the tip. Pollen globose; meridional smooth depressions very narrow, not reaching the poles. Ovary glabrous; style-base hairy. Capsule whole length 3/4 in.; stalk linear-cylindric; head compressed, 1/3 in. in diam., containing 2 thin discoid margined slightly rough seeds.
Distribution
Nubia Nile Land coast region, 3000–4000 ft., Bent! between Suakin and Berber; Singat, Schweinfurth, 277! and near Suakin, Schweinfurth, 127!Eritrea Nile Land Massowa, Hildebrandt, 724! Schweinfurth & Riva, 110! 210! Habab, 6000 ft., Hildebrandt, 465!Abyssinia Nile Land Wadi Togodele, Ehrenberg! and without precise locality, Salt!Somaliland Nile Land Ahl Mountains, 5000 ft., Hildebrandt, 860! Dauadid Torrent, Ghika!British East Africa Nile Land Ukamba, Machakos, Scott-Elliot, 6737! Taita; Maungu Mountain, Scott-Elliot, 6163! Lamu Island, Kirk!
Distribution (external)
Arabia
India
Notes
This plant, from the linear corolla-tube, stamens, and leaves, has been often sorted into Eranthemum, from which its large bracts should readily distinguish it.

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