Barleria lanceolata
| Family: | Acanthaceae |
| Full name: | Barleria lanceolata (Schinz) Oberm. |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | Spiny lance-leaved barleria |
| Synonym(s): | Barleria acanthoides auct. - non Vahl Barleria acanthoides Vahl forma lanceolata Schinz |
| Status: | Endemic |
| Description: | Undershrub; branches 6–30 in. long, canescent; leaves 1–2 in. long, oblong-elliptic, mucronate, minutely hairy; petiole 0– 0.25 in. long; interpetiolar spines 0.25–0.75 in. long, rigid, simple or subpinnatifid; racemes with 8–1 flowers, condensed, unilateral; bracts as the interpetiolar spines; posticous sepal 0.666 in. by nearly 0.5 in., ovate, veined, slightly ciliate; corolla white or pale blue (Schinz); tube 1.5–3 in. long, linear-cylindric nearly to the top; capsule 0.5 in. long, 4-seeded. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Capensis) |
| 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: | 18 Mar 2007 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | PowerShot A700 |
| Lens aperture: | f/4.0 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/320 s |
| ISO speed: | - |
| Content last updated: | 01 Jun 2020 |
