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Justicia anagalloides [family ACANTHACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Justicia anagalloides [family ACANTHACEAE]
Common names
Adhatoda anagalloides Nees: 403 (1847).
Information
Perennial herb, with annual erect stems becoming prostrate and rooting at nodes, 0.03-0.50 m long. Leaves nearly glabrous to densely pilose, very narrowly to broadly ovate to obovate, apex acute to obtuse, base cuneate; petiole 0-4 mm long. Inflorescence of axillary elongated spike-like cymes, usually single at each node, peduncles slender, 5-47 mm long, with 2-4 flowers towards end. Flowers subsecund, sessile, solitary at each inflorescence node. Bract subulate, 1, with another on oppposite side of axis, up to 4 mm long. Bracteoles 2, similar to bract. Corolla (5)6-8 mm long, white, with or without maroon lines on palate. Pollen 2-porate, 28-36 urn long, sexine areolate. Capsule 4-seeded, glabrous or with a few hairs near apex, delicate, up to 8 mm long. Figure 12.
Use
20. Justicia anagalloides (Nees) T. Anderson in Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Botany) 7: 42 (1863); C.B. Clarke: 65 (1901); Letty: 316, t. 158.7 (1962); Van der Schijff: 88 (1969); Compton 564 (1976); Graham: 598 (1988). Type: Transvaal, Apies River, Burke s.n. (K,holo.!).
Range
A common and widespread little herb in the Transvaal and northern Natal; in grassveld, often found where overgrazing or some other factor has diminished the grass cover, as well as in open places such as roadsides. Map 23.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Justicia anagalloides [family ACANTHACEAE]
Common names
Adhatoda anagalloides Nees: 403 (1847).
Information
Perennial herb, with annual erect stems becoming prostrate and rooting at nodes, 0.03-0.50 m long. Leaves nearly glabrous to densely pilose, very narrowly to broadly ovate to obovate, apex acute to obtuse, base cuneate; petiole 0-4 mm long. Inflorescence of axillary elongated spike-like cymes, usually single at each node, peduncles slender, 5-47 mm long, with 2-4 flowers towards end. Flowers subsecund, sessile, solitary at each inflorescence node. Bract subulate, 1, with another on oppposite side of axis, up to 4 mm long. Bracteoles 2, similar to bract. Corolla (5)6-8 mm long, white, with or without maroon lines on palate. Pollen 2-porate, 28-36 urn long, sexine areolate. Capsule 4-seeded, glabrous or with a few hairs near apex, delicate, up to 8 mm long. Figure 12.
Use
20. Justicia anagalloides (Nees) T. Anderson in Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Botany) 7: 42 (1863); C.B. Clarke: 65 (1901); Letty: 316, t. 158.7 (1962); Van der Schijff: 88 (1969); Compton 564 (1976); Graham: 598 (1988). Type: Transvaal, Apies River, Burke s.n. (K,holo.!).
Range
A common and widespread little herb in the Transvaal and northern Natal; in grassveld, often found where overgrazing or some other factor has diminished the grass cover, as well as in open places such as roadsides. Map 23.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Justicia anagalloides [family ACANTHACEAE]
Common names
Adhatoda anagalloides Nees: 403 (1847).
Information
Perennial herb, with annual erect stems becoming prostrate and rooting at nodes, 0.03-0.50 m long. Leaves nearly glabrous to densely pilose, very narrowly to broadly ovate to obovate, apex acute to obtuse, base cuneate; petiole 0-4 mm long. Inflorescence of axillary elongated spike-like cymes, usually single at each node, peduncles slender, 5-47 mm long, with 2-4 flowers towards end. Flowers subsecund, sessile, solitary at each inflorescence node. Bract subulate, 1, with another on oppposite side of axis, up to 4 mm long. Bracteoles 2, similar to bract. Corolla (5)6-8 mm long, white, with or without maroon lines on palate. Pollen 2-porate, 28-36 urn long, sexine areolate. Capsule 4-seeded, glabrous or with a few hairs near apex, delicate, up to 8 mm long. Figure 12.
Use
20. Justicia anagalloides (Nees) T. Anderson in Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Botany) 7: 42 (1863); C.B. Clarke: 65 (1901); Letty: 316, t. 158.7 (1962); Van der Schijff: 88 (1969); Compton 564 (1976); Graham: 598 (1988). Type: Transvaal, Apies River, Burke s.n. (K,holo.!).
Range
A common and widespread little herb in the Transvaal and northern Natal; in grassveld, often found where overgrazing or some other factor has diminished the grass cover, as well as in open places such as roadsides. Map 23.
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