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Justicia exigua
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By main Harare to Bulawayo Rd
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By main Harare to Bulawayo Rd
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Slender annual herb. Stems ascending to erect, up to 40 cm high, often purple-tinged, with opposite lines of short hairs along the length. Leaves opposite, elliptic up to 3.5cm long, ciliate hairy along the margin and often a fringe of longer hairs near the base. Flowers in 3-7-flowered spikes in the upper leaf axils, white with mauve-purple markings in midlobe of the lip. |
| Type location: |
Zimbabwe |
| Notes: | See J. anagalloides and J. matammensis for comparison. |
| Derivation of specific name: | exigua: small, meagre, poor |
| Habitat: | In a wide variety of open, often disturbed, habitats. |
| Altitude range: | Up to 1500 m |
| Flowering time: | Throughout the year |
| Worldwide distribution: | Sudan, Ethiopia, NE DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Limpopo, South Africa. |
| Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): | B,S |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | C,S,W |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 23. Darbyshire, I., Vollesen, K. & Kelbessa, E. (2015). Acanthaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 8(6) Pages 193 - 194. Heath, A. & Heath, R. (2009). Field Guide to the Plants of Northern Botswana including the Okavango Delta Kew Publishing Page 331. (Includes a picture). Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 14. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 18. |
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