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Genus: Sclerochiton

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 12 species, native to Africa with 6 species occurring in southern Africa.

Southern African species

Sclerochiton apiculatus (Blue Lips)

See KwaZulu-Natal Wildflowers by Elsa Pooley p. 490.

Sclerochiton harveyanus 

Mazabuka [Swazi]

See Creative gardening with indigenous plants. A South African Guide by Pitta Joffe p. 208.

Sclerochiton odoratissimus

See KwaZulu-Natal Wildflowers by Elsa Pooley p. 200.

Sclerochiton ilicifolius

 

Sclerochiton sp.A

  

Sclerochiton triacanthus

  

Publications

  • Vollesen, K. 1991. A revision of the African genus Sclerochiton (Acanthaceae: Acantheae). Kew Bulletin 46:1-50.

 

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