RUELLIOPSIS mutica C. B. Clarke [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
RUELLIOPSIS mutica C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
Information
Minutely white-bristly, mostly glabrate. Leaves up to 2 by 1/8 in., mostly glabrate. Flowers solitary; bracteoles linear, shorter than calyx. Calyx 1/2 in. long or rather more, divided nearly to the base; segments 5, linear, unequal, with scattered minute white bristles. Corolla exceeding 1 in. long. Stamens 4; anther-cells not tailed; pollen globose, smooth, many-ribbed. Style glabrous, with 1 linear-oblong branch; ovary glandular near the top, with 6 imbricated ovules in each cell.
Distribution
Tropical Africa (?) South African Goldfields, Baines!
Notes
This plant differs from the type R. setosa in the anthers, the cells of which are slightly unequal, divaricated in the lower half and muticous: it differs from Hygrophila in the corolla which is altogether as of Ruellia, and from Ruellia, in the pollen. In technical characters, it is a Hemigraphis. It is very possible that Calophanes hyssopifolius, Nees (recorded below at the end of Dyschoriste), may be allied.
RUELLIOPSIS mutica C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
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