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Justicia fischeri

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Type of Justicia fischeri Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE]
Type of Justicia fischeri Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE]
Holotype of Justicia laetevirens Rendle [family ACANTHACEAE]
Syntype of Justicia fischeri Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE]
Syntype of Justicia fischeri Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Justicia fischeri Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE ] Justicia odora (Forssk.) Lam. [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Hedrén,M.,
Related name
  • Justicia odora
  • Adhatoda unrecorded
  • Justicia laetevirens
  • Justicia fischeri

Flora

Entry for JUSTICIA odora (Forssk.) Lam. [family ACANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by M. Hedrén (Asystasia, Barleria, Duosperma, Hypoestes, Ichthyostoma, Isoglossa, Justicia, Lepidagathis, Peristrophe, Ruellia, Ruspolia) and M. Thulin (Acanthus, Anisotes, Blepharis, Crabbea, Crossandra, Dicliptera, Dyschoriste, Ecbolium, Elytraria, Megalochlamys, Neuracanthus, Rhinacanthus, Ruttya, Satanocrater, Thunbergia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
JUSTICIA odora (Forssk.) Lam. [family ACANTHACEAE], (1785);
Dianthera odora Forssk. [family ], (1775). Fig. 280. [type as above]
JUSTICIA fischeri Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], (1894).
?JUSTICIA urbaniana Lindau [family ], (1894);. types: N2, “Ahl” Mts, Hildebrandt 860b (B syn., destr.), and “Meid”, Hildebrandt 1402 (B syn., destr.).
JUSTICIA lortae Rendle [family ACANTHACEAE], (1897);. type: N1, “Wagga” Mt and “Bihin”, Lort Phillips s.n. (BM holo., FT K MO iso.).
JUSTICIA romaniae Schweinf. & Volkens [family ACANTHACEAE], (1897).
Information
Shrub or subshrub, 10–180 cm tall; young stems green, glabrous to fairly densely pubescent with 0.1–0.5 mm long erect hairs, gradually becoming greyish with bark peeling in long stripes. Leaf-blades narrowly lanceolate to ovate or narrowly elliptic to elliptic or obovate, glabrous to fairly densely pubescent with 0.1–2 mm long somewhat antrorse to erect hairs, up to 13–58 x 3–27 mm, apex emarginate to acuminate, base attenuate to usually shortly attenuate; petiole up to 0.5–5 mm long. Flowers single or few together at upper nodes; bracts leaf-like, up to 3.8–14 x 1–7 mm; bracteoles inconspicuous, 0.8–1.5 x 0.2–0.3 mm. Calyx-lobes 5, narrowly triangular, with or without a narrow hyaline margin, sparsely to usually ± densely pubescent with up to 0.4 mm long somewhat antrorse to erect hairs, 3.3–7.7 mm long in flower, up to 4–9.5 x 0.6–1.1 mm in fruit. Corolla yellow, often with veins marked red, 6.2–14.2 mm long; tube 2.8–6.4 mm long; upper lip 3.7–9 mm long; lower lip 3.8–11.3 mm long and c. 15.3 mm wide. Anthers 1.5–2.5 mm long, cells displaced by 0.4–0.7 mm, tail of lower cell 0.4–0.8 mm long. Capsule 10.6–14.9 x 3.5–4.9 mm, glabrous to densely pubescent with 0.1–0.15 mm long erect to somewhat retrorse hairs, sterile in lower 2/5. Seeds 2.8–3.2 x 2.7–3.2 mm, tuberculate.
Range
N1–3; C1, 2; S1–3 widespread in tropical Africa and tropical Arabia.
Altitude range
50–1650 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally 10989; Lavranos & Carter 23285; Gillett & al. 25329.
Distribution (external)
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Notes
J. odora is extremely variable in north-east tropical Africa, e.g., in size, leaf shape and corolla size, but the variation appears to be continuous.

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