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Justicia gendarussa

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Name

Identification
Justicia gendarussa Willd. [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by J.M. Cowan, Justicia gendarussa L.f. [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Salviacanthus preussii
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  • Gendarussa vulgaris

Flora

Entry for Justicia Gendarussa Linn. f. [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 Gendarussa Linn. f. [family ACANTHACEAE], Suppl. 85. —Jacq. Eclog. Pl. t. 11; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 532; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 347, fig. 139, D, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 373.
Gendarussa vulgaris Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 104, and in DC. Prod. xi. 410; Wight, Ic. t. 468.
Information
Shrubby, 2–4 ft. high. Leaves 4 by 3/4 in., glabrous; petiole 1/6 in. long. Spikes terminal, 4 by 3/4 in., almost continuous, lax, often running into a panicle by the development of the cymes in the lower axils; bracts linear, scarcely 1/6 in. long. Sepals 1/6 in. long, nearly glabrous. Corolla 1/2 in. long, or rather more, nearly glabrous, white or rose with purple spots; tube very little widened upwards. One anther-cell lower than the other, tailed; pollen with 2 stopples, banded, without tubercles (or with tubercles according to Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 64, t. 2, fig. 95). Capsule 1/2 in. long, clavate, glabrous; seeds unknown.
Distribution
Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. Stuhlmann, 698! 1058!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Usambara; Tanga, Volkens, 146!Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Gorongoza, Carvalho!
Notes
The Zanzibar examples of this common South-Asian plant (now widely spread in warm countries) were probably introduced into Africa; it may be otherwise with the Tanga example.

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