Justicia brandegeeana Wassh. & L.B.Sm.Family: Acanthaceae
English: Mexican Plume, shrimpplant
Chinese: 虾衣花 , 麒麟吐珠
Finnish: Käpyjaakonkukka, Onnenkäpy
French: Queue d'écrevisse
German: Purpurschopf, Zimmerhopfen
Africans: Garnaalbos
Arabic: نبات الجمبري
Persian: ناوک
Dutch: Garnalenplant
Japanese: コエビソウ
Portuguese: Flor-camarão
Swedish: Mexikansk humleknopp
Tongan: Akauʻuoiiki kula
Description: A small shrublet, up to 1.5 m, much branched from the base, young twigs with patent hairs. Leaves with 1-3 cm long, slender strigose petioles; lamina ovate o lanceolate-ovate, 2.5-9 x 2-5 cm, sparsely hirsute on both sides, entire, basally attenuate, acute. Flowers white or pale-lilac, 2-3.5 cm long in terminal or axillary, up to 10 cm long, strobilate, reddish-brown spikes; bracts broadly ovate, 10-20 x 7-15 mm, pilose and densely ciliate obtuse or ± acute, reddish-brown, closely imbricate; bracteoles oblong-lanceolate to ovate, c. 10 mm long, ciliate. Calyx lobes narrowly lanceolate, 5-7 mm long, ciliate. Corolla tube 1.5-2.5 cm long, soft hairy outside, upper lip smaller than lower, ± entire, lower lip purple spotted within, shallowly 3-lobed, Ovary glabrous with filiform, hairy style. Capsule oblong, 10-12 mm long, puberulent. Seeds ± ovate, c. 3 mm long, smooth.
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