Monographs Details:
Authority:
Wasshausen, Dieter C. & Wood, John R. I. 2004. Acanthaceae of Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 49: 1-152.
Wasshausen, Dieter C. & Wood, John R. I. 2004. Acanthaceae of Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 49: 1-152.
Family:
Acanthaceae
Acanthaceae
Description:
Description - Perennial herbs or undershrubs with cystoliths; leaves sessile or petiolate, margin entire or sinuate; inflorescence of 1(-3)-flowered diachasia in leaf axils forming terminal spikes, sometimes compounded into panicles; bracts very variable, sometimes prominent and/or brightly colored, margin entire; calyx deeply (4-)5-lobed, lobes equal or rarely unequal; corolla with a distinct tube, strongly 2-lipped, upper lip entire or 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed: stamens 2; anthers 2-thecous, the thecae inserted at same level or varyingly superposed, one or both basally appendaged; capsule stipitate, usually obovate; retinacula present, septa with attached retinacula remaining attached to inner wall of mature capsule, seeds 2-4. Justicia is the largest and taxonomically most complex genus of the Acanthaceae with estimates of up to 600 species worldwide (Graham. 1988, Mabberley, 1997). It is also the largest genus of the family in Bolivia with about 70 species.
Description - Perennial herbs or undershrubs with cystoliths; leaves sessile or petiolate, margin entire or sinuate; inflorescence of 1(-3)-flowered diachasia in leaf axils forming terminal spikes, sometimes compounded into panicles; bracts very variable, sometimes prominent and/or brightly colored, margin entire; calyx deeply (4-)5-lobed, lobes equal or rarely unequal; corolla with a distinct tube, strongly 2-lipped, upper lip entire or 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed: stamens 2; anthers 2-thecous, the thecae inserted at same level or varyingly superposed, one or both basally appendaged; capsule stipitate, usually obovate; retinacula present, septa with attached retinacula remaining attached to inner wall of mature capsule, seeds 2-4. Justicia is the largest and taxonomically most complex genus of the Acanthaceae with estimates of up to 600 species worldwide (Graham. 1988, Mabberley, 1997). It is also the largest genus of the family in Bolivia with about 70 species.