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Genus: Adhatoda

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Eudicotyledons >  Core Eudicots >  Asterids >  Euasterid I > Order: Lamiales > Family: Acanthaceae

Many species in the Old World tropics. Two species are native to southern Africa.

Species indigenous in southern Africa

From Welman (2003).

Adhatoda andromeda (Adhatoda)

Distribution in southern Africa: Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Free State

 

Adhatoda densiflora

Distribution in southern Africa: KwaZulu-Natal

 

Publications

  • Manning, J.C. & Getliffe Norris, F. 1995. Adhatoda. Flora of southern Africa 30,3,1: 62-64.

  • Welman, W.G. 2003. Acanthaceae. In Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds), Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 92-106. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria. 

  

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