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Lonavala, Maharashtra, India
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mbavna, Maharashtra, India
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Lonavala, Maharashtra, India
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Matheran, Maharashtra, India
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Rio San Juan, Nicaragua
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This species has a native range of central and eastern Africa. Its odd species name comes from the Uele River in the Congo. KEW Gardens, London.
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Tucson, Arizona, United States
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North Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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San Francisco Botanical Gardens, native to Central America.I
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Native to the central latitudes of Africa. A weed west of Dodoma, Tanzania.
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This species, which uses red leaves as well as petals, is mainly at home in the Amazon basin, but is here at Cotacocha Lodge on the upper Rio Napo. I
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Family: AcanthaceaeDistribution:Common on dry gravelly hard soils and rock crevices.Limited to Peninsular India.Suffrutescent herbs with perennial root stock and radially spreading branches; Leaves 3x1 cm linear-oblong, subacute,subsessile. Flowers 1-1.5am long white or pale pink, spotted with purple. Flower heads globose, denser, wooly and spiny.Spikes crowded at the base of the stem.Bracts and calyx lobes shortly spinous-mucronate; bracts broad, corolla lobes cyllindric below, suddenly expandedand 2 lipped,upper lip erect, 2lobed, lower 3 lobed, spotted, stamens 4 didynamous, disk annular, ovary 2 celled, stigma shortly 2 lobed, fruit a capsule.Reference: Flora of presidency of Madras by J.S Gamble, ENVIS, Flora of Nellore district By B.Suryanarayana &A.S Rao
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Lonavala, Maharashtra, India
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Lonavala, Maharashtra, India
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Lonavala, Maharashtra, India
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Lonavala, Maharashtra, India
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A flower of Justicia gendarussa from Acanthaceae.
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An unusual form of Justicia, some would claim it should be called Beloperone amherstiae. Native to the southernmost Neotropics. Photo from near the Argentina-Brazil border.
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Santa Ana, Managua, Nicaragua
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Alto Boquete, Chiriqui, Panama
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Considered by some to be a subspecies of R. californica. Reported mainly from Baja California, with photo from near San Pedrito Beach, where it is known as Rama Parda. Acanthaceae Family.