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Justicia filifolia

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Name

Identification
Justicia filifolia Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Hedrén, Justicia striata (Klotzsch) Bullock [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Hedrén, M., Justicia striata (Klotzsch) Bullock [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Justicia filifolia Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Clarke, C.B., Justicia neglecta unrecorded [family ACANTHACEAE ]
Related name
  • Justicia neglecta
  • Justicia striata
  • Justicia filifolia

Flora

Entry for Justicia filifolia Lindau [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 filifolia Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 70. —Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 349, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 373.
Information
Straggling, sparingly hairy; branches elongate with long internodes. Leaves 3 in. long, lanceolate and ovate-lanceolate, nearly glabrous; petioles up to 1 1/2 in. long; upper leaves (sometimes nearly all the leaves) narrow, linear-oblong or oblong, 1/6– 1/2 in. broad. Flowers 1–3 together in the distant axils, often surrounded by several shortened floral leaves 1/4– 1/3 in. long, elliptic or orbicular. Sepals 1/8 in. long, narrow-lanceolate, acute, hispid. Corolla 1/3– 1/2 in. long, white with purple marks. Ovary hairy. Capsule 1/4 in. long, hairy all over.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Ukami; Mrogoro, Stuhlmann, 8233!Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Lower Zambesi; Shupanga, Kirk!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. near Blantyre, Last! Buchanan, 51! Mandala, Scott! Zomba, 5000–6000 ft., Whyte! Kondowe to Karonga, 2000–6000 ft., Whyte! and by the River Shire, Kirk!
Notes
Last's specimen, from which Lindau described, has lost all the lower leaves, the upper are very narrow, as usual in this species.

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