Acanthaceae
Acanthus

Acanthus seretii De Wild.

First published in Ann. Mus. Congo Belge, Bot., sér. 5, 3: 271 (1910)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is South Sudan to NE. DR Congo. It is a shrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Sudan, Zaïre

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 529. MIM, Deurne.

Kew Bulletin

  • Agnew, A. D. Q. & Agnew, S. (1994). Upland Kenya Wild Flowers, ed. 2. East Africa Natural History Society, Nairobi.
  • Anderson, T. (1863). An Enumeration of the species of Acanthaceae from the Continent of Africa and the adjacent Islands. J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 7: 13 - 54.
  • Andrews, F. W. (1956). The flowering plants of the Sudan. Volume 3. Published for the Sudan Government by T. Buncle, Arbroath.
  • Beentje, H. (1994). Kenya trees shrubs and lianas. National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi.
  • Blundell, M. (1987). Collins Guide to the Wild Flowers of East Africa. Collins, London.
  • Brenan,J. P. M. & Greenway, P. J. (1949). Check-lists of the Forest Trees and Shrubs of the British Empire. No. 5. Tanganyika Territory, Part 2. Imperial Forestry Institute, Oxford.
  • Brickell, C. (ed.) (2003). The Royal Horticultural Society A - Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants. Vol. 1: A - J. Dorling Kindersley, London.
  • Bullock, A. A. (1934). Enumeration of Plants. In: E.J. Lugard, The Flora of Mount Elgon. Bull. Misc. Inform., Kew 1933: 58 - 106.
  • Burrows, J. (2005). Acanthaceae. In: J. Burrows & C. Willis, Plants of the Nyika Plateau: 48 - 54. SABONET, Pretoria.
  • Champluvier, D. (1985). Acanthaceae. In: G. Troupin, Flore du Rwanda Spermatophytes. Vol. III: 422 - 492. Ann. Mus. Roy. Afrique Centrale Tervuren Belg., Sci. Econ.
  • Chiovenda, E. (1940). Plantae novae aut minus notae ex Aethiopia. Atti Reale Accad. Italia, Mem. Cl. Sci. Fis. 11: 17-67.
  • Christensen, C. (1922). Index to Pehr Forsskål: Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica 1775, with a revision of Herbarium Forsskålii. Dansk Bot. Arkiv 4, 3: 1 - 54.
  • Clarke, C. B. (1899 - 1900). Acanthaceae. In: W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, Flora of Tropical Africa 5: 1 - 262 8c 506 - 515. L. Reeve & Co., London.
  • Cufodontis, G. (1964). Enumerado Plantarum Aethiopiae Spermatophyta (Sequentia). Bull. Jard. Bot. État. 34, Suppl: 925 - 978.
  • Dale, I. R. & Greenway, P. J. (1961). Kenya trees and shrubs. Buchanan's Kenya Estates, Nairobi.
  • De Wildeman, E. (1910). Études de systématiques et de Géographie Botaniques sur la Flore du Bas- et du Moyen-Congo. Ann. Mus. Congo Belge. Bot., Ser. 5, 3: 1 - 533.
  • Delile, A. R. (1826). Centurie de plantes d'Afrique du voyage à Méroé recueillies par M. Cailliaud. Paris.
  • Edwards, S. (1976). Some wild flowering plants of Ethiopia: an introduction. Addis Ababa University Press, Addis Ababa.
  • Enayet Hossain, A. B. M. (1982). Acanthaceae. In: P. H. Davis, Flora of Turkey, Vol. 7: 23 - 27. Edinburgh University Press.
  • Engler, A. (1892). Über die Hochgebirgsflora des tropischen Afrika. Abh. Akad. Berlin.
  • Fichtl, R. & Admasu, A. (1994). Honeybee Flora of Ethiopia. Margraf Verlag, Weikersheim.
  • Fiori, A. (1940). Plantae a Dominico Saccardo in regionibus Galla et Sidama Abyssiniae collectae. Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital. 47: 24 - 46.
  • Forsskål, P. (1775). Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica. Möller, Copenhagen.
  • Friis, I. & Vollesen, K. B. (2005). Flora of the Sudan- Uganda border area east of the Nile. II. Catalogue of vascular plants, 2nd part, vegetation and phytogeography. Biol. Skr. 51 (2): 390 - 855.
  • Glover, P. E. (1946). A provisional check-list of British and Italian Somaliland trees, shrubs and herbs. Published on behalf of the Govt. of Somaliland by Crown Agents for the Colonies.
  • Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants, vol. 1, part 1. MIM bvba, Antwerp.
  • Hepper, F. N., Jaeger, P. M. L., Gillett, J. B. & Gilbert, M. G. (1981). Annotated Check-list of the Plants of Mount Kulal, Kenya. IPAL Technical Report Number D - 3. Nairobi.
  • Heywood, V. H. & Richardson, L B. K. (1972). Acanthaceae. In: T. G. Tu tin et al., Flora Europaea, Vol. 3: 283 - 284. Cambridge University Press.
  • Huxley, A, Griffiths, M. & Levy, M. (eds.) (1992). The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening, 1: A to C. Macmillan Press, London.
  • Kuchar, P. (1986). The plants of Somalia: an overview and checklist. CRDP Techn. Rep. Ser. 16: 1 - 335. Mogadishu, Somalia.
  • Lebrun J.-P. & Stork. A. L. (1997). Enumeration des plantes à fleurs d'Afrique Tropicale. Vol. IV - Gamopétales: Clethraceae à Lamiaceae. Conservatoire & Jardin Botaniques de la Ville de Génève. Génève.
  • Lindau, G. (1894). Acanthaceae Africanae. II. In: A. Engler, Beiträge zur Flora von Afrika. IX. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 20: 1 - 76.
  • Lwanga, J. (1996). Trees and shrubs. In: T. Davenport & P. Howard, Biodiversity Report No. 14, Agoro- Agu and Lokung Forest Reserves: 17 - 35. Kampala.
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  • Moquin-Tandon, A. (1832). Considérations sur les irregularities de la Corolle dans les Dicotylédones. Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris) Ser I, 27: 225 - 290.
  • Napper, D. M. (1970). Notes on Acanthaceae 1. Some tropical African Acanthoideae and Nelsonioideae. Kew Bull. 24: 323 - 342.
  • Nees ab Esenbeck, C. G. (1847). Acanthaceae. In: A. de Candolle, Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis 11: 46 - 519. Fortin, Masson, Paris.
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  • Wood, J. R. I. (1997). A handbook of the Yemen Flora. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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  • — (2000). Blepharis (Acanthaceae) A taxonomic revision. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • — (2006). A taxonomic revision of the genus Duosperma (Acanthaceae). Kew Bull. 61: 289 - 351.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Bulletin

    • Kew Bulletin
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  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0