Genus: Petalidium

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 35 species, native from Africa to India. In southern Africa there are 28 species.

Species indigenous to southern Africa

List from Welman (2003).

Petalidium angustitubum
Petalidium aromaticum
Petalidium bracteatum
Petalidium canescens
Petalidium cirrhiferum
Petalidium coccineum
Petalidium crispum
Petalidium cymbiforme
Petalidium engleranum
Petalidium giessii
Petalidium halimoides
Petalidium lanatum
Petalidium linifolium
Petalidium lucens
Petalidium luteo-album
Petalidium oblongifolium
Petalidium ohopohense
Petalidium parvifolium
Petalidium physaloides
Petalidium pilosi-bracteolatum
Petalidium ramulosum
Petalidium rautanenii
Petalidium rossmannianum
Petalidium setosum
Petalidium spiniferum
Petalidium subcrispum
Petalidium variabile
Petalidium welwitschii

Publications

• Obermeyer, A.A. 1936. The South African species of Petalidium. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 18,2: 151-162.

• 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.