- Family:
- Acanthaceae Juss.
- Genus:
- Brillantaisia P.Beauv.
Brillantaisia stenopteris Sidwell
[FTEA]
Acanthaceae (part 2), Kaj Vollesen. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2008
- Type
- Type: Tanzania, Morogoro, Kombola, Schlieben 4068 (LISC!, holo.; BR!, iso.)
- Morphology General Habit
- Perennial herb; stems erect or basal part rooting, to 1 m tall, puberulous on uppermost node and with scattered thin pilose hairs and capitate glands
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves often purplish tinged; petiole up to 4 cm long; lamina ovate-cordiform or broadly so, largest 17–34 × 9–19 cm, apex drawn out into an acuminate apex with rounded tip, base truncate to cuneate, margin subentire to dentate, beneath with long and short thin hairs and scattered broad hairs along veins, above subglabrous
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Panicle open, 5–15 cm long, puberulous and with thin glossy pilose hairs up to 3 mm long and with dense stalked capitate glands; primary bracts green or purple, ovate-elliptic, from leaf-size down to 5 × 4 mm near apex, indumentum as leaves but denser and with capitate glands; secondary bracts elliptic, 3–9 × 1–3 mm; pedicels 1–4 mm long
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx purplish, puberulous and with long broad pilose hairs and with dense capitate glands; ventral and lateral lobes linear, tapering or slightly spathulate, 7–12 mm long, dorsal linear-oblong, distinctly spathulate, more than twice as broad as the rest, 8–12 mm long
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla with upper lip yellow-green flushed with purple and lower lip white or pale blue to mauve with white base, 28–40 mm long, crisped-puberulous and with long capitate glands; tube 9–13 mm long; lower lip 18–23 mm long, without long stiff hairs, lobes ovate, 3–7 mm long; anthers 3–4 mm long, glabrous; staminodes ± 2 mm long, glabrous
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Capsule 2.2–3 cm long, the valves ± 1.5 mm wide, with scattered minute glands
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seed ± 1 mm long
- Ecology
- Dry evergreen or semi-evergreen lowland forest extending to lower montane evergreen forest; 200–750(–1300) m
- Distribution
- Range: Not known elsewhere Flora districts: T6
Native to:
Tanzania
Brillantaisia stenopteris Sidwell appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. (London), Bot. 28: 889 (1998)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (2001). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS E-F: 1-50919.
- Vollesen, K. (2008). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Acanthaceae(1): 1-285.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Vollesen, K. (2008). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Acanthaceae(1): 1-285.
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. London 28: 89, fig. 11 (1998).
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Kew Backbone Distributions
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