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Genus: Rhinacanthus

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 22 species, native from Africa to Asia. In southern Africa there are 3 species.

Species indigenous to southern Africa

Rhinacanthus gracilis (Dainty Spurs)

See KwaZulu-Natal Wildflowers by Elsa Pooley p. 438.

Rhinacanthus kaokoensis

 

Rhinacanthus xerophilus

 

Publications

  • Balkwill, K. 1995. Rhinacanthus. Flora of southern Africa 30,3,1: 11-14.

 

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