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Genus: Metarungia

[= Macrorungia in part - see also Anisotes]

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

The 3 species are native to Africa, 2 of which occur in southern Africa.

Species indigenous to southern Africa

Metarungia galpinii 

Metarungia longistrobus (Sunbird Bush)

[=Macrorungia longistrobus]

Sonbekkiebos [Afrikaans]

See Creative gardening with indigenous plants by Pitta Joffe p. 165;  Transvaal Lowveld and escarpment wild flowers by Jo Onderstall p. 184.

Metarungia pubinervia

Publications

  • Baden, C. 1995. Metarungia. Flora of southern Africa 30,3,1: 3-5.

  

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