- Family:
- Acanthaceae Juss.
Brillantaisia P.Beauv.

Native to:
Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Introduced into:
Jamaica
- Brillantaisia cicatricosa Lindau
- Brillantaisia debilis Burkill
- Brillantaisia fulva Lindau
- Brillantaisia grottanellii Pic.Serm.
- Brillantaisia lamium (Nees) Benth.
- Brillantaisia lancifolia Lindau
- Brillantaisia madagascariensis T.Anderson ex Lindau
- Brillantaisia oligantha Milne-Redh.
- Brillantaisia owariensis P.Beauv.
- Brillantaisia pubescens T.Anderson ex Oliv.
- Brillantaisia richardsiae Vollesen
- Brillantaisia riparia (Vollesen & Brummitt) Sidwell
- Brillantaisia stenopteris Sidwell
- Brillantaisia vogeliana (Nees) Benth.
Brillantaisia P.Beauv. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Drummond, R.B. [4768], Kenya | 17152.000 | No |
First published in Fl. Oware 2: 67 (1818)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- Benoist in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 60: 334 (1913).
- —F.T.A. 5: 37
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0