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Asystasia gangetica ssp. micrantha

Botanic Family

Acanthaceae

Author

(Nees) Ensermu

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central Arican Republic
• Chad
• Comoros
• Congo
• Djibouti
• Equatorial Guinea
• Eritraea
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Mali
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Oman
• Rwanda
• Saudi Arabia
• Senegal. Sierra Leone
• Somalia
• Cape Provinces
• Natal
• Northern Provinces - South Africa
• Sudan
• Swaziland
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Yemen
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Forest margins
• woodland
• wooded grassland
• bushland
• shoreline
• ditches
• plantations
• secondary vegetation

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Perennial herbaceous vine or subshrub, weakly climbing or sprawling stems to 2m. Sparsely hairy leaves to 115mm x 65mm. Terminal or rarely axillary racemes to 280mm long with white-edged bracts & bracteoles to 2mm long, white , pale mauve or pale blue flowers to 25mm long with purple markings on lower lip, tube to 7mm x 2.5mm, throat 11mm x 9mm & lobes to 8mm long, pubescent calyx to 9mm long. Guitar-shaped puberulous capsule to 28mm x 5mm long drying brown, exploding to scatter seeds.

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• HP
• FOTA
• FZ