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Ruellia imbricata

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Name

Identification
Phaulopsis imbricata (Forssk.) Sweet [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by F.N. Hepper, 1986 Ruellia imbricata Forssk. [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by F.N. Hepper, 1986 Ruellia dorsifera Knig [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Phaulopsis oppositifolius Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Ruellia imbricata
  • Ruellia dorsifera
  • Phaulopsis oppositifolius
  • Phaulopsis imbricata
  • Ruellia lupulina

Flora

Entry for PHAYLOPSIS parviflora Willd. [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
PHAYLOPSIS parviflora Willd. [family ACANTHACEAE], Sp. Pl. iii. 342. —T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 26; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 417.
PHAYLOPSIS longifolia Sims [family ACANTHACEAE], Bot. Mag. t. 2433.
Ruellia imbricata Forsk. [family ACANTHACEAE], Descr. ÆEgypt.-Arab. 113; Vahl, Symb. ii. 73.
Micranthus oppositifolius Wendl. [family ], Bot. Beobacht. 39; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B. 298, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 367.
Micranthus longifolius O. Kuntze [family ], Rev. Gen. 493.
Micranthus imbricatus O. Kuntze [family ], Rev. Gen. 493.
Ætheilema imbricatum R. Br. [family ], Prod. 478; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 480; Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 262 partly; not of A. Rich.
Ætheilema reniforme Nees [family ], in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 94, and in DC. Prod. xi. 261; Wight, Ic. t. 1533; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 480.
Phaulopsis oppositifolius Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. zu ii.–iv. 305.
Phaulopsis longifolius Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. zu ii.–iv. 305.
Information
Stem 1–2 ft. high, branched, decumbent or suberect, hairy, becoming glabrescent below. Leaves up to 3 by 1 1/2 in. (many on the same stem only 1/2–1 in.) long, those of one pair sometimes very unequal, acuminate at both ends, pubescent, some often very unequal and oblique at the base, nearly entire; petiole up to 1 1/2 in. long. Inflorescences some cylindric up to 2 1/2 by 2/3 in., dense, strobilate (some examples have nearly all the inflorescences ovoid); lower floral leaves 1/3 by 1/2 in., rounded subtruncate; upper floral leaves of the same inflorescence are 1/2 by 1/3 in., ovate, triangular, subacute at the tip. Calyx 1/4– 1/3 in. long, hairy, scarcely glandular; posticous segment ovate, two anticous segments narrowly linear-ligulate, not dilated at the subacute tip. Corolla 1/3 in. long, white or purplish; tube cylindric, narrow-funnel-shaped at the top. Ovary glabrous, sparingly glandular close to the top only. Capsule 1/6– 1/4 in. long.
Distribution
Pemba Island Mozamb. Dist. (ex Lindau).German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Usambara, Holst, 31A!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Mount Chiradzulu, 4000 ft., Whyte! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 773!Abyssinia Nile Land Eritrea; Saganeiti, 6500 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 939!Senegal Upper Guinea Perrottet, 631!Senegambia Upper Guinea Heudelot, 585!Gambia Upper Guinea Brown-Lester, 11!Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Afzelius! Smeathman! Don! Scott-Elliot, 5693! 4426!
Notes
I differ from Lindau in ascribing the synonyms above given to this plant. The Ruellia imbricata of Forskål is in the British Museum, and is the Indian Phaylopsis parviflora as R. Brown made it. The Phaylopsis longifolia, Sims (Bot. Mag. t. 2433) is figured from a Sierra Leone piece (where Ph. longifolia, T. Thoms. is not known), and agrees perfectly with the Sierra Leone plants of Heudelot and others.

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