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Genus: Anisotes
[= Macrorungia in part - see also Metarungia]
Life
> eukaryotes >
Archaeoplastida >
Chloroplastida
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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
There are 19 species, native to
Africa, Arabian Peninsula and Madagascar. Two species are found in southern
Africa.
Species in southern Africa
From Welman 2003 - information excludes Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
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Anisotes formosissimus
Perennial shrub growing up to 4 m
high. Distribution in southern Africa: Limpopo |
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Anisotes rogersii
Perennial shrub growing up to 2 m high. Distribution in southern Africa: Limpopo |
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Publications
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Baden, C. 1995. Anisotes. Flora of southern
Africa 30,3,1: 65-68.
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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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