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Genus: Salpinctium

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 endemic to southern Africa.

Species indigenous to southern Africa

Salpinctium hirsutum 

 

Salpinctium natalense

See KwaZulu-Natal Wildflowers by Elsa Pooley p. 492.

 

Salpinctium stenosiphon

 

Publications

  • Edwards, T. & Getliffe Norris, F. 1989. Salpinctium, a new genus of Acanthaceae in southern Africa. South African Journal of Botany 55: 6-10.

 

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