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Justicia ladanoides

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Name

Identification
Tyloglossa kotschyi Hochst. [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Justicia ladanoides Lam. [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Rostellaria sexangularis
  • Tyloglossa kotschyi
  • Justicia galeopsis
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  • Justicia ladanoides
  • Justicia fistulosa
  • Asystasia schimperi
  • Adhatoda kotschyi
  • Tyloglossa schimperi
  • Justicia insularis
  • Justicia palustris
  • Justicia calcarata
  • Justicia neglecta
  • Adhatoda diffusa
  • Justicia lithospermifolia
  • Justicia kotschyi
  • Adhatoda rostellaria
  • Tyloglossa rostrata
  • Justicia sexangularis

Flora

Entry for JUSTICIA ladanoides 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 ladanoides Lam. [family ACANTHACEAE], (1791).
JUSTICIA schimperi (Hochst.) Dandy [family ACANTHACEAE], (1956).
JUSTICIA kotschyi (Hochst.) Dandy [family ACANTHACEAE], (1956).
Information
Herb, 10–200 cm tall; stem glabrous to densely pubescent with 0.2–2 mm long hairs, mostly below nodes. Leaf-blades sparsely to densely pubescent with 0.1–1 mm long hairs, narrowly lanceolate to ovate or linear to elliptic, 12–110 x 4–52 mm, base usually shortly attenuate, apex obtuse to acute; petiole 1–58 mm long. Flowers several together at upper nodes; bracts narrowly lanceolate to narrowly ovate or linear to elliptic; bracteoles narrowly triangular, 1–2 x 0.2–0.5 mm. Calyx-lobes 5, narrowly triangular or narrowly lanceolate-subulate, with a ± broad and distinct white hyaline margin, usually with few to fairly numerous 0.1–1 mm long somewhat antrorse hairs, 2.7–9 mm long in flower, 4–12.5 x 0.6–1.6 mm in fruit. Corolla crimson with a white/crimson pattern on lower lip near throat, 8.2–25.6 mm long; tube 4.9–20.6 mm long; upper lip 3.7–10.7 mm long; lower lip 4–12 mm long and 4–11 mm wide. Anthers yellow or occasionally purplish, 1.4–2.8 mm long, cells displaced by 0.4–1 mm, tail of lower cell 0.3–0.7 mm long. Capsule 6–12 x 2–3.3 mm, usually glabrous. Seeds tuberculate, 1.5–2.3 x 1.3–2.1 mm. Probably in deciduous bushland at intermediate elevation. N1; Eritrea, Ethiopia, widespread in tropical Africa north of the Equator. Lort Phillips s.n. (BM).

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