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Monechma arenicola

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Identification
Monechma arenicola (Engler) C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Isotype of Justicia arenicola Engler [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Engl., 1889
Related name
  • Monechma arenicola
  • Monechma cleomoides
  • Justicia arenicola

Flora

Entry for MONECHMA arenicola C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 1, (1912) Author: By C. B. CLARKE.
Names
MONECHMA arenicola C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE], in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 218
Justicia arenicola Engl. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. x. 264; Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 151, and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 349.
Information
a viscous pubescent undershrub; branches 6–10 in. long, internodes mostly 1/6– 1/3 in. long; leaves up to 1 by 1/4– 1/3 in., lanceolate, acute, subsessile, with long white hairs; flowers solitary, few, approximate towards the ends of the branchlets; bracteoles 2, scarcely 1/4 in. long, linear; calyx 1/4 in. long, 4-partite nearly to the base; lobes linear; corolla 1/2 in. long; one anther-cell lower than the other, tailed, pollen ellipsoid, with 2 stopples, tubercles minute in 2 rows on each side of each stopple; capsule 1/3 in. long, pubescent, 2-seeded; seeds smooth, blotched. null
Range
Also frequent in Lower Guinea.
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Prieska Div.; Zand Valley, Burchell, 1631! Hopetown Div.; near Hopetown, 4500 ft., Muskett in Bolus Herb., 2568!

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