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Justicia natalensis

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Name

Identification
Justicia densiflora unrecorded [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Justicia natalensis (Nees) T.Anderson [family ACANTHACEAE ]
Related name
  • Justicia salsola
  • Justicia densiflora
  • Adhatoda densiflora
  • Justicia natalensis
  • Gendarussa densiflora
  • Adhatoda natalensis
  • Justicia unrecorded
  • Justicia articulata
  • Justicia brevicaulis

Flora

Entry for ADHATODA natalensis 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
ADHATODA natalensis Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in DC. Prod. xi. 391
Gendarussa densiflora Hochst. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Flora, 1845, 71.
Justicia natalensis T. Anders. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 38; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 349.
Duvernoia trichocalyx Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxii. 122.
Information
a stout hairy shrub; leaves 2 1/4 by 1 in., elliptic, narrowed at either end; petiole 0– 1/6 in. long; inflorescence terminal, a condensed panicle 2 by 1 in.; flowers numerous; bract 2/3 by 1/8 in.; bracteoles 1/2 by 1/12 in.; sepals 5, 1/2 by 1/12 in., linear-subulate, softly hairy; corolla 2/3 in. long; tube short, broad; posticous subentire lip arched; one anther-cell slightly lower than the other, with a very short tail; pollen shortly ellipsoid, longitudinally banded, without tubercles; ovary densely hairy; capsule 1 by 1/5 in., stout, 4-seeded. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; hills near Pietermaritzburg, 1000–2000 ft., Krauss, 453! Inanda, Wood, 174! 304! and without precise locality, Sanderson! Sutherland!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Sanderson!
Notes
Duvernoia trichocalyx (collected by O. Kuntze at Durban) has not been seen. The description of Lindau agrees with that of A. natalensis, except that the leaves are said to be glabrous.

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