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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.
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