Barleria lancifolia lancifolia
| Family: | Acanthaceae |
| Full name: | Barleria lancifolia T.Anderson subsp. lancifolia |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Skoenlapper barleria |
| English common name(s): | Butterfly barleria |
| Synonym(s): | Barleria alata S.Moore var. alata accepted by FTA Barleria cinereicaulis C.B.Clarke Barleria hereroensis Engl. Barleria latiloba Engl. Barleria rautanenii Schinz |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Shrub-like perennial herb. Stems unarmed. Leaves opposite, very shortly petiolate, lanceolate, up to 6 x 2 cm, greyish hairy to white woolly when young. Flowers axillary, c. 3 cm in diameter, pale mauve; bracts obovate, glandular hairy with entire, spineless margins. (from Flora of Zimbabwe website) Innovations pubescent, and with gland-tipped several-celled hairs, branches up to 15 in. long, 'pruinose' to the naked eye, minutely and densely pubescent with very small white curved hairs. Leaves up to 5.5 by 2 in., when mature nearly glabrous with minute hairs on the nerves beneath, tip triangular-acute, base triangular-acuminate so that the petiole appears winged. Flowers solitary in remote axils, also approximated in the upper axils; bract 0.333– 0.5 in. long, linear. Calyx pubescent and with gland-tipped several-celled hairs; posticous segment 0.666 in. long, quadrate-oblong, tip depressed-triangular; anticous segment nearly similar, but 2-nerved with the tip minutely notched; two interior calyx-segments 0.25 in. long. Corolla-tube 1 in. long, inflated nearly from the base; lobes 0.333– 0.5 in. long. Ovary glabrous, setulose at the tip; ovules 2 in each cell; style glabrous. Capsule 2-seeded, tip conic. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora of Tropical Africa) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Photographer: | AA Dreyer |
| Date of photograph: | 23 Mar 2008 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | PowerShot A700 |
| Lens aperture: | f/4.0 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/800 s |
| ISO speed: | - |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
