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Justicia striata

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Justicia infirma Mildbr. [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Hedrén,M., Justicia striata (Klotzsch) Bullock [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Hedrén,M.,
Related name
  • Justicia neglecta
  • Justicia striata
  • Justicia lindaui
  • Justicia heterocarpa
  • Justicia kaessneri
  • Justicia phillipseae
  • Justicia unrecorded
  • Justicia filifolia
  • Justicia dyschoristeoides
  • Justicia infirma
  • Justicia melampyrum

Flora

Entry for JUSTICIA striata (Klotzsch) Bullock [family ACANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by M. Hedrén (Asystasia, Barleria, Duosperma, Hypoestes, Ichthyostoma, Isoglossa, Justicia, Lepidagathis, Peristrophe, Ruellia, Ruspolia) and M. Thulin (Acanthus, Anisotes, Blepharis, Crabbea, Crossandra, Dicliptera, Dyschoriste, Ecbolium, Elytraria, Megalochlamys, Neuracanthus, Rhinacanthus, Ruttya, Satanocrater, Thunbergia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
JUSTICIA striata (Klotzsch) Bullock [family ACANTHACEAE], (1932).
Information
Annual to perennial herb with erect to ascending stems up to 0.5 m or more long; stems glabrous to fairly densely pubescent with c. 0.1 mm long mostly appressed hairs, but spreading below the nodes. Leaf-blades ovate to elliptic, up to 41 x 22 mm, with a sparse indumentum of up to 0.4 mm long antrorse hairs and c. 0.2 mm long glandular hairs, apex obtuse to acute, base attenuate; petiole up to 22 mm long. Flowers in 3–5(–7)-flowered contracted 3-bracteate clusters in opposite leaf-axils; bracts ovate, leaf-like with a truncate base, up to c. 7 x 5 mm, enlarged in fruit, with sparse c. 0.1 mm long antrorse hairs and some up to 1 mm long hairs; bracteoles narrowly triangular, up to 0.9 x 0.4 mm. Calyx-lobes 5, subequal, narrowly lanceolate or lanceolate-subulate, up to 4.3 x 1 mm in flower, up to 6 x 0.7 mm in fruit, with fairly numerous c. 0.2 mm long antrorse hairs. Corolla white with purple markings at lower lip near throat, 8.7–8.8 mm long; tube 4.2–4.5 mm long; upper lip 5.1–5.4 mm long; lower lip 6–6.5 mm long and 7–7.5 mm wide. Anthers yellow with purple spots, 1.3–1.5 mm long, cells displaced by 0.4 mm, tail of lower cell c. 0.4 mm long. Capsules of two kinds: normal dehiscent ones sterile in lower 1/4, 4-seeded, up to 6.5 x 2 mm, glabrous or with few hairs at the apex; indehiscent ones 1-seeded, with 4 undulate wings. Seeds tuberculate, the ones from 1-seeded capsules larger and smoother.
Range
S1 widespread in tropical Africa from Ethiopia in the north to Zimbabwe and Angola in the south.
Altitude range
200–350 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Bashir Mohamed 7056; Thulin, Hedrén & Abdi Dahir 7476, 7684.
Notes
First record for Somalia. The Somali plants are var. striata, but have somewhat smaller corollas and more densely glandular-hairy leaves than most other material of this widespread taxon. Various other infraspecific taxa were recognized by Hedrén in Nord. J. Bot. 10: 385–391 (1990).

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