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Monechma foliosum

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Name

Identification
Monechma foliosum C.B.Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Clarke, C.B., Monechma spartioides (T.Anderson) C.B.Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Munday, J., Justicia unrecorded unrecorded [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Munday, J., Monechma pseudopatulum C.B.Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE ]
Related name
  • Monechma pseudopatulum
  • Monechma spartioides
  • Adhatoda cuneata
  • Justicia cuneata
  • Justicia foliolosa
  • Tyloglossa cuneata
  • Monechma foliosum
  • Adhatoda unrecorded
  • Justicia unrecorded

Flora

Entry for MONECHMA foliosum 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 foliosum C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
Justicia foliosa E. Meyer [family ACANTHACEAE], in Drège, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 62, 195.
Justicia cuneata T. Anders. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 41 partly.
Gendarussa foliolosa Presl [family ACANTHACEAE], Bot. Bemerk. 95.
Gendarussa cuneata Drège [family ACANTHACEAE], in Linnæa, xx. 200.
Adhatoda cuneata Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in DC. Prod. xi. 392 partly.
Information
an undershrub, nearly glabrous except the innovations; branches 4–8 in. long, with internodes mostly very short, some up to 1 in. long; leaves 1/2 by 1/6 in., cuneate-elliptic, subsessile, tip obtuse, base narrow; flowers few, axillary, scattered; bracteoles 1/6 in. long, linear-oblong; calyx 4-partite to the base; segments exceeding 1/4 in. long, linear, broader and minutely hairy in the lower half; corolla 1/2– 2/3 in. long; one anther-cell much below the other, tailed; pollen ellipsoid, with 2 stopples and several rows of small tubercles; capsule exceeding 1/3 in. long, with 2 smooth seeds. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Beaufort West Div.; between Beaufort West and Rhinoster Kop, 2500–3000 ft., Drège!COAST REGION Knysna Div.; without precise locality, Bolus, 2422! Uitenhage Div.; near Roodewal, Bolus, 1873!
Notes
Nees has written “ Tyloglossa cuneata, N. ab E.,” on Drège's example marked “ Justicia foliosa, E. M.”; the leaves bear a resemblance to those of Justicia cuneata, Vahl.

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