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Genus: Neuracanthus

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 20 species, native to Africa, and from the Arabian Peninsula to India. There is one species in southern Africa, Neuracanthus africanus.

Species indigenous to southern Africa

Neuracanthus africanus

 

Publications

  • Bidgood, S. & Brummitt, R.K. 1998. A revision of the genus Neuracanthus (Acanthaceae). Kew Bulletin 53: 1-76.

 

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