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Genus: Brillantaisia

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

About 40 species, native to tropical Africa and Madagascar. Not recorded in Balkwill & Welman (2000) but according to Joffe (2001), Brillantaisia subulugurica is found in Zimbabwe and tropical Africa.

Brillantaisia subulugurica (Giant Salvia, Tropical Salvia)

Reusesalie [Afrikaans]

See Creative gardening with indigenous plants by Pitta Joffe p. 183.

 
 
 
 

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