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ISOGLOSSA ciliata Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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
ISOGLOSSA ciliata Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 344 Rhytiglossa ciliata Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in Lindl. Nat. Syst. Bot. ed. ii. 445, in Linnæa, xv. 364, and in DC. Prod. xi. 335; Sonder in Linnæa, xxiii. 93; Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. (1840) 126; Oerst. in Kjob. Vidensk. Meddel. 1854, 155 in obs. t. 5. fig. 27. Justicia intercepta E. Meyer [family ACANTHACEAE], in Drège, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 160, 195. Justicia divaricata Zeyher ex Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in DC. Prod. xi. 336. Justicia capensis Ecklon ex Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], l.c. Ecteinanthus divaricatus T. Anders. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 45.
Information
pubescent; branches 2–3 ft. long, slender, not virgate; leaves up to 2 by 3/4 in., elliptic, narrowed at either end; petiole 0– 2/3 in.; inflorescences terminal and axillary, short, dense, 1/2–1 by 1/2– 3/4 in., without any solitary flowers, compound; floral leaves 1/2– 2/3 in. long, lanceolate or narrowly obovate, imbricate, prominent to the top of the inflorescence; bracteoles 1/4– 1/3 in. long, linear; calyx 1/4 in. long, scarious, hardly at all green; segments linear, with many long many-celled hairs, none gland-headed; corolla 1/2 in. long. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Uitenhage Div.; amongst bushes by the Zwartkops River, Ecklon & Zeyher, 73! and without precise locality, Ecklon & Zeyher, 928! Alexandria Div.; Addo, Zeyher, 1401! East London Div.; near East London, 100 ft., Galpin, 3186!EASTERN REGION Natal; Umgeni River, 500 ft., Drège!
ISOGLOSSA ciliata Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE]
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