Monechma lolioides(S.Moore) C.B.Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by C.B.Clarke, Justicia lolioidesS.Moore [family ACANTHACEAE ]
Related name
Justicia lolioides
Monechma lolioides
Justicia betonica
Flora
Entry for MONECHMA lolioides C. B. Clarke [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
MONECHMA lolioidesC. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
Justicia lolioidesS. Moore [family ACANTHACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1880, 310, t. 214, fig. 1.
Information
Nearly glabrous, except the corolla; branches 12–20 in. long. Leaves from oblong (1 3/4 by 1/3 in.) to linear (2 1/2 by 1/6 in.), subobtuse, sessile. Spikes terminal, up to 5 by 1/2 in., loose, especially at the base, main rhachis glabrous; bracts 1/3 by 1/16 in., green with white margins, glabrous. Sepals 5, similar to the bracts but rather shorter. Corolla 1/2 in. long. Lower anther-cell long-tailed, tail clavate 2-lobed at tip; pollen ellipsoid, with 2 stopples. Style-base hairy; ovary glabrous. Capsule 1/3 in. long, 2-seeded, glabrous; the solid thick stalk scarcely 1/16 in. long; seeds yellow-brown, smooth, as of the genus, but with minute white hairs round the margins.
