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Genus: Phaulopsis

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 from Africa to India, with 3 species occurring in southern Africa.

Species indigenous to Southern Africa

Phaulopsis imbricata

Umhlonyane [Zulu]

See KwaZulu-Natal Wildflowers by Elsa Pooley p. 198.

Phaulopsis  semiconica

 

Publications

  • Manktelow, M. 1996. Phaulopsis (Acanthaceae): a monograph. Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses 31,2: 1-184.

 

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