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Barleria opaca

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Name

Identification
Barleria opaca (Vahl) Nees [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Justicia opaca Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Barleria brownii
  • Barleria talbotii
  • Justicia opaca
  • Barleria opaca
Common name
  • mu (FRI) (GHANA, ADANGME), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ala fango (Krause) (GHANA, GBE-VHE (Awlan)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • efanba = child’s vegetable, from efaŋ: spinach; ba: child (FRI) (GHANA, AKAN-KWAWU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • Aarenikosun (N&E) (NIGERIA, YORUB), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • εfaŋba = child’s vegetable, from εfaŋ: spinach; ba: child (FRI) (GHANA, TWI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for Barleria opaca Nees [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
Barleria opaca Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in DC. Prod. xi. 230. —Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 480; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 31; Cummins in Kew Bulletin, 1898, 77.
Barleria Afzelii Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], MS. in Hb. Berol.
Justicia opaca Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE], Enum. i. 133; Schumach. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 10.
Information
Straggling half-climbing shrub. Leaves 2 1/4 by 1 1/4 in., narrowed at both ends, when mature with scattered simple hairs on both faces; petiole 0– 1/3 in. long. Cymes very short, 3–1-flowered, approximated in the upper axils and running into a dense spike; floral leaves 1/2–1 in. long, subsessile, similar to the lower leaves but smaller, hardly imbricated to form a strobilate spike; bract 1/2 in. long, linear or scarcely spathulate. Posticous sepal nearly 1/2 in. long, entire, quadrate-oblong, shortly apiculate, hairy; anticous segment rather shorter, 2-nerved, tip shortly 2-toothed; 2 inner sepals 1/6– 1/5 in. long, linear. Corolla-tube 3/4–1 in. long, narrow funnel-shaped upwards; lobes 1/2 in. long. Ovary glabrous; ovules 2 in each cell; style glabrous. Capsule 1/2 in. long, compressed, ellipsoid, narrowed at each end, 2-seeded.
Distribution
Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Brass!Gold Coast Upper Guinea Accra, Don! Ashanti: Akroful, Cummins, 30! Volta Basin; Alafango, Krause!Lagos Upper Guinea Abeokuta, Rowland! and without precise locality, Millen, 46! 179!Niger Upper Guinea Brass, Don!Cameroons Upper Guinea Buea, 6000 ft., Preuss, 714!
Notes
S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, 268, asks whether this may not be a variety of B. ventricosa, which differs in its yellow-green colour, tawny hairs on the innovations, and less dense spikes.

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