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Justicia matammensis [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 matammensis [family ACANTHACEAE]
Common names
Adhatoda matammensis Schweinf.: 464 (1868).
Information
Annual herb. Stems erect or decumbent, pubescent to densely pilose, denser or the same density at nodes, 0.3-0.4 m high. Leaves sparsely pilose, hairs denser on margin and veins, broadly lanceolate to ovate, 21-65 x 9-34 mm, apex acute or obtuse, base cuneate; petiole 4-18 mm long. Inflorescence as for J. anagalloides (no. 20) but usually 2 per node, one of each pair with a pair of reduced leaves near base, peduncles 10-37 mm long, with (3)4 or 5(-8) flowers near top. Corolla ± 4 mm long, white with maroon lines on palate. Pollen 2-porate, 22-29 urn long, sexine areolate. Capsule 4-seeded, lanceolate, delicate, usually with short hairs scattered over most of surface, these sometimes confined to apex, (6-)7-8(-9) mm long.
Use
22. Justicia matammensis (Schweinf.) Oliv. in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 29: 130 (1875); Immelman: 41 (1986a) p.p. excl. syn J. exigua S. Moore; Immelman: t. 1932 (1986c) p.p. as to part of description and distribution; Graham: 598 (1988); Ensermu: 78 (1990). Type: eastern Sudan, Gallabat, Matamma (Metemma?), 1865, Schweinfurth 130c (K, lecto., selected by Ensermu 1990; BM; photo, in PRE!).
Range
In southern Africa found only in the northeastern and eastern Transvaal (also from Botswana according to Ensermu 1990). In the rest of Africa, recorded by Ensermu from East Africa (not West Africa), from the Sudan to Zimbabwe and the Transvaal. Occurs in various types of woodland or as a weed in fallow lands. Description and map taken from PRE specimens only; for fuller description, see Ensermu (1990). Map 24.
Justicia matammensis [family ACANTHACEAE]
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