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Monechma divaricatum

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Identification
Isotype of Monechma terminale S.Moore [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Monechma divaricatum (Nees) C.B.Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Monechma nepeta
  • Monechma terminale
  • Monechma floridum
  • Monechma fimbriatum
  • Monechma divaricatum
  • Tyloglossa orchioides
  • Justicia unrecorded
  • Justicia mossamedea
  • Justicia nepeta
  • Adhatoda capensis
  • Monechma nepetoides
  • Justicia capensis
  • Justicia patula

Flora

Entry for MONECHMA divaricatum 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 divaricatum C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
Justicia divaricata Willd. ex Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in DC. Prod. xi. 391. T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 42; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 349.
Justicia patula E. Meyer [family ACANTHACEAE], in Drège, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 91, 196 (letter b only).
Justicia orchidioides T. Anders. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 42.
Gendarussa incana Nees var. villosa [family ACANTHACEAE], in Linnæa, xv. 367.
Gendarussa patula Presl [family ACANTHACEAE], Bot. Bemerk. 95.
Adhatoda divaricata Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in DC. Prod. xi. 391.
Adhatoda orchioides Nees var. α [family ACANTHACEAE], l.c. 393.
Ruellia setigera Zeyher ex Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], l.c. 391.
Information
an undershrub, attaining 2 ft. in height (at least); branches terete, not striate, minutely hairy, many internodes 1–2 1/2 in. long; leaves 1/2– 2/3 by 1/8– 1/6 in., linear-obovate, pubescent, long-tapering to the base, tip obtuse, recurved, with a minute mucro; flowers scattered, axillary, few, mostly towards the ends of the branches; bracteoles 2, 1/4 in. long, linear; calyx 1/4 in. long, deeply 4-fid; lobes linear, glandular-pubescent, very white on the margins; corolla 1/2 in. long, rose-coloured (Bolus); one anther-cell much lower than the other, tailed; pollen ellipsoid with 2 stopples and 2 rows of small tubercles on either side of each stopple; ovary glabrous; style thinly hairy; capsule nearly 1/2 in. long, 2-seeded; seeds smooth, blotched. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Graaff Reinet Div.; banks of the Zwart River near Graaff Reinet, 2700 ft., Bolus, 748!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; Kaus Mountains, 3000–4000 ft., Drège! between Spektakel and Komaggas, 1000 ft., Bolus & MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 671!
Notes
This plant is exceedingly unlike Justicia orchioides, Linn. f.; yet Nees has written on Drège's J. patula from locality b “ Tyloglossa orchioides, var. α.”

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