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Justicia nyassana

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Name

Identification
Justicia nyassana Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Justicia nyassana
  • Isoglossa gregorii
  • Justicia bridsoniana

Flora

Entry for Justicia nyassana 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 nyassana Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 66. —Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 349, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 373.
Information
Floral leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, very acute; bracts and bracteoles with linear yellow-hairy tips. Corolla 1/4– 1/3 in. long. Capsule 1/4– 1/3 in. long, otherwise as J. flava .
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Usaramo, Stuhlmann, 6875! Ukami; Mrogoro, Stuhlmann, 8220! Usambara, Holst, 485!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Kondowe to Karonga, 2000–6000 ft., Whyte! Tanganyika Plateau, at Fort Hill, 3500–4000 ft., Whyte! Mount Chiradzulu, 4000 ft., Whyte! and without precise locality, Whyte, 40! Buchanan, 290!
Notes
Capsule 4-seeded, but Lindau puts the species in sect. Monechma. Lindau also says the spikes are subcapitate, the corolla glabrous; he described from poor material. The corolla is perhaps purple.

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