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Ramusia nyctaginea

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Name

Identification
Ramusia nyctaginea E. Mey. [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by E. H. F. Meyer,
Related name
  • Asystasia capensis
  • Ramusia nyctaginea
  • Asystasia gangetica

Flora

Entry for ASYSTASIA coromandeliana Nees [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
ASYSTASIA coromandeliana Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 89;—Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 165; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 493, and in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 131; Schinz in Mém. Herb. Boiss. x. 64.
ASYSTASIA gangetica T. Anders. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 235, and in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 52; Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 63, t. i. fig. 49, in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 326, fig. 131, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 370; Schinz in Mém. Herb. Boiss. x. 64.
ASYSTASIA capensis Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in Linnæa, xv. 356, and in DC. Prod. xi. 167.
Justicia gangetica Linn. [family ACANTHACEAE], Amœn. Acad. iv. 299.
Ramusia nyctaginea E. Meyer [family ACANTHACEAE], in Drège, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 150, 160. 215.
Dyschoriste biloba Hochst. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Flora, 1845, 72.
Ruellia biloba Hochst. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Flora, 1845, 72.
Information
sparsely pubescent, perennial; branches 1–3 ft. long; leaves 3 by 1 in., ovate, suddenly narrowed at the base; petiole 0– 1/3 in. long; racemes 2–6 in. long, one-sided, terminal or in a terminal panicle; lower flowers distant; pedicels up to 1/12– 1/6 in. long; bracts minute; sepals 1/6 in. long, linear-lanceolate, pubescent; corolla from lurid purple to pale yellow, 2/3–1 1/4 in. in total length; tube broadly cylindric, inflated for 2/3 its length; anthers muticous; ovary and style-base pubescent; capsule 1 in. long, pubescent; seeds 1/8 in. in diam. null
Range
Widely spread throughout Africa and India.
Distribution
COAST REGION Ceres Div.; Mosterts Hoek, 3500 ft., Schlechter, 317!EASTERN REGION Pondoland; St. Johns River, below 1000 ft., Drège! Port St. John, 50 ft., Galpin, 3402! Natal; Inanda, Wood, 147! Coastland, Sutherland! near Durban, 150 ft., Wood in MacOwan & Bolus Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 1006! Krauss, 262! Drège! and without precise locality, Peddie! Plant, 55! Grant! Delagoa Bay, Forbes! Junod, Kuntze.
Notes
This is a weed that has been divided into numerous species, the corolla varying much in size and colour. The pollen is oblong-ellipsoid, banded, with 2 stopples, and is correctly figured by Lindau in his picture cited. The description of the pollen of the genus Asystasia by me in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 130, is taken from other species there included in the genus, and is not correct for A. coromandeliana.

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