Justicia bequaertii
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Habit
Miombo woodland
Solwezi, Solwezi Distr.
Oct 2022
Photo: Nick Wightman
Flower
Miombo woodland
Solwezi, Solwezi Distr.
Oct 2022
Photo: Nick Wightman
Flower
Miombo woodland
Solwezi, Solwezi Distr.
Oct 2022
Photo: Nick Wightman
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| Synonyms: |
Justicia praecox (Milne-Redh.) Milne-Redh. Monechma praecox Milne-Redh. |
| Common names: | |
| Frequency: | Occasional |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Suffrutescent pyrophytic herb with several erect unbranched stems (mostly inflorescences) to 50 cm tall from a large woody rootstock, flowering when leafless, rarely with very young leaves; stems distinctly longitudinally striate and furrowed, subglabrous to puberulous, rarely pubescent; leaves sparsely pubescent with broad glossy hairs when young, soon glabrescent, glandular punctate, petiole to 1 cm long, narrowly ovate, narrowly elliptic or oblong, largest c. 6.5 × 2.2 cm, apex acute to obtuse and base cuneate to attenuate; flowers solitary or in 2(3)-flowered cymules in elongated terminal racemiform cymes, unbranched or with lateral cymes from lower nodes thus forming a loose panicle to 35 cm long, lateral cymes to 20 cm long, peduncle and nodes to 5(10) cm long, subglabrous to puberulous; calyx 3.5–6 mm long, ciliate or sparsely so to uniformly puberulous, lobes lanceolate, acuminate; corolla white, rarely with purple patches on lower lip, 8–11 mm long, puberulous; tube 4–6 mm long and 2–3 mm diameter, upper lip 4–5 mm long, hooded, lower lip deflexed, 4–5 mm long, deeply 3-lobed, lobes elliptic-oblong; capsule 2-seeded, 3.2–3.5 cm long, glabrous; seeds not compressed, reniform, densely tuberculate, c.8 mm long. |
| Type location: |
DRC (Katanga) |
| Notes: | Red Data list status: fairly widespread; not threatened |
| Derivation of specific name: | bequaertii: after Joseph Charles Corneille Bequaert, a Belgian-American botanist, entomologist and malacologist who collected the type specimen |
| Habitat: | Brachystegia and chipya woodland and dambos, appearing after burning |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 1000 - 1500 m |
| Flowering time: | Aug - Jan |
| Worldwide distribution: | DRC (Katanga) and Zambia |
| FZ divisions: | W |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | Nw |
| Growth form(s): | Perennial. |
| Endemic status: | Near Endemic |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Saturday 3 December 2022 |
| Literature: |
Darbyshire, I., Vollesen, K. & Kelbessa, E. (2015). Acanthaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 8(6) Pages 176 - 177. |
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