Justicia brandegeeana Wassh. & L.B.Sm.

• Authority

  Wasshausen, Dieter C. & Wood, John R. I. 2004. Acanthaceae of Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 49: 1-152.

• Family

  Acanthaceae

• Scientific Name

  Justicia brandegeeana Wassh. & L.B.Sm.

• Type

  Flora llustrada Catarinense. fasc. ACAN. 102. 1969. - Beloperone guttata Brandegee, Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 4:278. 1912, non Justicia guttata Wall. 1830 - Calliaspidia guttata (Brandegee) Bremek., Verhand. Konin. Nederl. Akad. Wetensch., Afd. Natuurk., Tweede sect. 45:54. 1948. Type: Mexico, San Luis Potosí, Purpus 5263 (holotype UC).

• Description

  Description - Undershrub 0.5-2 m high, stems dark green, bifariously pubescent; leaves shortly petioled, 1.5-7 x 0.8-3 cm, softly pubescent beneath, acute or obtuse., inflorescence of terminal bracteate spikes 3-8 cm long; bracts ovate, green when young, becoming wine-red when old, 17-25 x 10-15 mm, shortly tomentose, apically acute; bracteoles broadly lanceolate to elliptic, 8-13 x 5 mm; calyx mm long, pilose, 5-lobed, lobes subulate, scarious; corolla white, very narrow, ca. 30 mm long, pilose, strongly 2-lipped to half its length; anther thecae obliquely superposed.