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Genus: Anisotes
[= Macrorungia in part - see also Metarungia]
Life
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Archaeoplastida >
Chloroplastida
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> Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants)
> Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering
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> Eudicotyledons > Core Eudicots > Asterids > Euasterid I > Order: Lamiales
> Family: Acanthaceae
Nineteen species, native to
Africa, Arabian Peninsula and Madagascar. Three species are native to southern
Africa.
Species native to southern Africa
List from
Plants
of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI) and
Flora of Zimbabwe.
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Anisotes bracteatus
Recorded from Zimbabwe. See
Flora of Zimbabwe. |
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Anisotes formosissimus
Perennial shrub growing up to 4 m high.
Distribution in southern Africa: South Africa (Limpopo), Zimbabwe. See
Flora of Zimbabwe. |
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Anisotes rogersii
Perennial shrub growing up to 2 m high. Distribution in
southern Africa: South Africa (Limpopo), Zimbabwe. See
Flora of Zimbabwe. |
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Publications
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Baden, C. 1995. Anisotes. Flora of southern
Africa 30,3,1: 65-68.
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Welman, W.G. 2003. Acanthaceae. In
Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds), Plants of southern Africa: an
annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 92-106. National Botanical
Institute, Pretoria.
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