Justicia sp. B

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Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road near Khodzue Gorge Camp

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Common names:
Frequency:	Very locally common
Status:	Native
Description:	Branched, somewhat scrambling annual herb up to c. 80 cm high. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, up to 8 cm long. Flowers in terminal and axillary racemose inflorescences up to 3 cm long; each flower supported by a broadly ovate bract, c. 8 x 6 mm, only very finely and sparsely velvety and with minute ciliae on the margins, less than 0.5 mm long. Corolla c.11 mm long, white with purple herringbone markings on the lower lip.
Notes:	This taxon has not yet been formally described and has been provisionally included in Flora Zambesiaca volume 8 part 6 as sp. B., based on a single previous collection. In the location of the specimen in the images this taxon was surprisingly common and often forming extensive "weedy" colonies.
Derivation of specific name:
Habitat:	Open bushland on limestone cliffs.
Altitude range:	200 - 250 m
Flowering time:
Worldwide distribution:	Only known from the Cheringoma limestone plateau in Mozambique.
Mozambique distribution:	MS
Growth form(s):
Endemic status:	Endemic
Red data list status:	Vulnerable
Insects associated with this species:
Spot characters:	Display spot characters for this species
Content last updated:	Thursday 8 June 2017
Literature:	Darbyshire, I., Vollesen, K. & Kelbessa, E. (2015). Acanthaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 8(6) Page 215.

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