PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / LAMIALES / ACANTHACEAE / ACANTHOIDEAE / JUSTICIEAE / MEGALOCHLAMYS / KENYENSIS
Shrubby herb or shrub to 1 m tall; young branches and petioles whitish pubescent (sometimes in two bands only) or densely sericeous. Leaves sparsely pubescent, mainly along veins, lamina often glabrous; petiole 2-13 mm long; lamina narrowly elliptic to elliptic or narrowly ovate to ovate, largest 3-7 x 1-3.3 cm, 1/b-ratio 2.3-4.1; apex acute to rounded; base attenuate. Spikes (2-)5-17 cm long; peduncle 3-8 mm long, densely whitish pubescent and ± stalked capitate glands; axes pubescent to densely so with non-glandular shiny hairs and long-stalked capitate glands. Bracts greenish with red to purplish veins, elliptic to obovate or broadly so, folded round the ripening fruit; lower 10-15(-20) x 7-13 mm, acumen 1-2 mm long, sharp, recurved; upper pubescent or sparsely so with non-glandular shiny hairs and long-stalked (longest 0.5-1 mm long) capitate glands, these most conspicuous near edges, usually not ciliate, veins as in M. revoluta; bracteoles 1-2 mm long. Calyx (6-)7-10 mm long, pubescent or densely so with long-stalked shiny capitate glands and non-glandular shiny hairs. Corolla pale blue or bright blue to deep blue (royal blue); tube 10-14 mm long; lobes 12-14 mm long, middle in lower lip 3-4 mm wide; filaments 6-8 mm long. Capsule 10-15 mm long, puberulous in upper half; seed 4-5.5 x 3.5-4 mm, greyish, almost smooth to rugose, with glandular glochidiate hairs, rim entire to crenulate. From: Vollesen, KB. 1989. A revision of Megalochlamys and Ecbolium (Acanthaceae: Justicieae). Kew Bull. 44(4): 601-680. [All rights reserved]
M. kenyensis has been widely confused with M. revoluta and M. hamata with which it shares the glandular-glochidiate seeds. In the herbaria it has most commonly been identified as a form of M. revoluta, but in my opinion it deserves to be treated as a distinct species. It differs from M. revoluta and M. hamata in the longer spikes with the bracts clasping the capsules and in the long-stalked shiny capitate glands on bracts and calyces. From: Vollesen, KB. 1989. A revision of Megalochlamys and Ecbolium (Acanthaceae: Justicieae). Kew Bull. 44(4): 601-680. [All rights reserved]
Acacia- and Acacia-Commiphora-woodcd grassland and -bushland, Combretum-bushland, riverine thicket, usually on loamy soil. 450-1050(-1450) m. From: Vollesen, KB. 1989. A revision of Megalochlamys and Ecbolium (Acanthaceae: Justicieae). Kew Bull. 44(4): 601-680. [All rights reserved]
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
Occurrence in the Flora of Southern Africa (FSA) countries and South African provinces. Residence status indicates if a taxon is indigenous, endemic, naturalised or invasive in a specific region. This data is based on specimen records and literature
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Names and Sources
Published in: Kew Bull. 44(4): 625 (1989)
Type: Kenya, Machakos distr., near bridge across Athi river on Kibwezi-Kitui road, 19 March 1969, Napper & Jones 1956 (K, holo.; EA, FT, iso.)
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Lamiales
FAMILY Acanthaceae
SUBFAMILY Acanthoideae
TRIBE Justicieae
GENUS Megalochlamys
SPECIES kenyensis
This species contains accepted infraspecific taxa:
13 results for Megalochlamys kenyensis Vollesen
Barcode: PRE0144732-0 Collector(s) & number: Strey, RG, 3492 | 1960-12-6
South Africa, Limpopo, SOUTPANSBERG DIST.; LILLIPUT
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Barcode: PRE0736794-0 Collector(s) & number: Hardy, DS, 6876 | 1989-1-16
South Africa, Limpopo, LIMPOPO RIVER; MALALA DRIFT
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Barcode: PRE0135429-0 Collector(s) & number: Gerstner, J, 5764 | 1945-12-30
South Africa, Limpopo, MESSINA; MOPANE
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Barcode: PRE0536702-0 Collector(s) & number: Khorommbi, C, 974 | 1979-9-25
South Africa, Limpopo, VENDA; BETW. GUMBU & SIGONDE VILLAGES ALONG THE RED LINE
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Barcode: PRE0135431-0 Collector(s) & number: Rogers, FA, 19311 | 1917-9-
South Africa, Limpopo, ZOUTPANSBERG DIST.; MESSINA
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Barcode: PRE0135432-0 Collector(s) & number: Rogers, FA, 30052 | --
South Africa, Limpopo, PIETERSBURG
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Barcode: PRE0135309-0 Collector(s) & number: Van der Schijff, HP, 5203 | 1961-1-24
South Africa, Limpopo, LOUIS TRICHARDT DISTRICT; TSHIPISE
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Barcode: PRE0135430-0 Collector(s) & number: Rogers, FA, 22547 | --
South Africa, Limpopo, ZOUTPANSBERG; MESSINA
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Barcode: PRE0135434-0 Collector(s) & number: Rogers, FA, 19311 | 1917-9-
South Africa, Limpopo, ZOUTPANSBERG; MESSINA
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Barcode: PRE0796132-0 Collector(s) & number: Brenan, JPM, 14140 | 1976-2-7
South Africa, Limpopo, Messina; Roadside near Malalahoek, ca. 20km North East of Messina.
General notes: Det: M. Welman
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Barcode: PRE0135308-0 Collector(s) & number: Meeuse, ADJ, 10596 | 1959-2-7
South Africa, Limpopo, SOUTPANSBERG; TSHIPISE; 1 MI. E. OF CHIPISI ON RD. TO NUANETSI RIVER
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Barcode: PRE0135310-0 Collector(s) & number: De Winter, B, 7809A | 1963-1-7
South Africa, Limpopo, SOUTPANSBERG; TSHIPISE; 1.2 MI. N. OF TSHIPISE ON RD. TO MESSINA
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Barcode: PRE0358065-0 Collector(s) & number: Unknown, s.n. | 1973-1-
South Africa, Limpopo, MESSINA; 6 MI S OF TOWN ON GREAT N RD
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This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
1989
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
A revision of Megalochlamys and Ecbolium (Acanthaceae: Justicieae) Vollesen, KBKew Bulletin 44(4)601-680
No results found for Megalochlamys kenyensis Vollesen
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