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Justicia odora

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Name

Identification
Justicia fischeri Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE ] Justicia odora (Forssk.) Lam. [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Hedrén,M.,
Related name
  • Justicia odora
  • dianthera odora
  • Adhatoda unrecorded
  • Justicia leptocladus
  • Justicia shebelensis
  • Adhatoda odora
  • adhatoda odora
  • Justicia lorteae
  • Justicia polymorpha
  • Justicia laetevirens
  • Dianthera odora
  • Justicia lortiae
  • justicia odora
  • Justicia fischeri

Flora

Entry for JUSTICIA odora Vahl [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
JUSTICIA odora Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE], Enum. i. 164;—T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 42; C. B. Clarke in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 201 (excl. syn. J. leucodermis).
JUSTICIA polymorpha Schinz [family ACANTHACEAE], in Verh. Bot. Brandenb. xxxi. (1890) 203; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 349.
Adhatoda odora Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in DC. Prod. xi. 399.
Gendarussa odora Presl [family ACANTHACEAE], Bot. Bermerk. 95.
Information
an undershrub, 1–2 ft. high, glabrous, except the flowers; leaves 1 by 1/4– 1/3 in., narrowly elliptic, obtuse, base narrowed; petiole 0– 1/10 in. long; flowers axillary, solitary or more rarely 2–3 together; calyx-segments 1/4 in. long, linear; corolla 2/3 in. long, yellow; one anther-cell much below the other, tailed; capsule 1/2 in. long, glabrous, 4-seeded; seeds tubercular-scabrous. null
Range
Extends to Abyssinia.
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Avoca, near Barberton, 1900 ft., Galpin, 1238!
Notes
The calyx, corolla, and capsule are all rather longer than in the type plant of Vahl.

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