PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / LAMIALES / ACANTHACEAE / NELSONIOIDEAE / ELYTRARIA / ACAULIS
Acaulescent perennial herb with a short, creeping sometimes branched rootstock; apical part of rootstock where leaves attached with long strigose hairs to 3 mm. Leaves in basal rosette, below crisped puberulous to pilose or sparsely so along midrib (sparser along lateral veins), glabrous on lamina, with similar indumentum and ± scattered hairs on lamina above; subsessile, rarely with petiole to 2.5 cm, lamina elliptic to obovate, largest 5-22 x 2-9 cm; apex acute to broadly rounded; base attenuate, decurrent; margin subentire to crenate-dentate in apical part, entire to deeply sinuate, incised or weakly lyrate in basal part. Spikes 2-9.5 cm long, branched or unbranched; peduncle (2)5-22 cm long; sterile bracts imbricate, 4.5-7.5 mm long, ovate, acuminate, glabrous except for ciliate margin; fertile bracts 6.5-8 mm long, pale green with white scarious margin, broadly ovate, acuminate to cuspidate, with similar indumentum; bracteoles 4-5 mm long, narrowly elliptic, acuminate, crisped puberulous in a central band and ciliate towards apex. Sepals ciliate near apex, otherwise glabrous; dorsal 4.5-6 mm long, elliptic, subacute to acute; lateral 4-5.5 mm long, narrowly elliptic, acute, sometimes with a small dorsifixed mucro; ventral 4-5.5 mm long, lanceolate, acute. Corolla white or cream, tube c.9 mm when fully developed, widened into a short throat, lobes 2-3 mm long, sometimes bifid; cleistogamous flowers with tube 5-7 mm long, lobes toothed, folded over and down around tube thus closing flower. Stamens 2, attached in widened throat; filaments c.1 mm long; anthers c.1 mm long, with sagittate base, slightly smaller in cleistogamous flowers. Stigma oblong-spathulate and erect in open flowers, rounded or reniform and bent in cleistogamous flowers. Capsule 5.5-6.5 mm long, glabrous. Seed c.1 mm long. From: Vollesen, KB. 2013. 126. Acanthaceae (Part 1). Fl. Zambes. 8(5): 1-184. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London. [CC BY]
Acaulescent, rosulate herb. Leaves spathulate. Flowers small, tubular, borne in dense, scapose, terminal spikes; peduncles and inflorescence bearing imbricate, coriaceous bracts. Flowers white. From: Retief, E; Herman, PPJ. 1997. Plants of the northern provinces of South Africa: Keys and diagnostic characters. Strelitzia 6: 1-681. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Woodland, dry deciduous forest and thicket, riverine forest and termite mounds; 50-1000 m. From: Vollesen, KB. 2013. 126. Acanthaceae (Part 1). Fl. Zambes. 8(5): 1-184. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London. [CC BY]
Mopane sandveld. From: Retief, E; Herman, PPJ. 1997. Plants of the northern provinces of South Africa: Keys and diagnostic characters. Strelitzia 6: 1-681. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Botswana, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique. Also in Nigeria, Ghana, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Congo, Angola, South Africa and India. From: Vollesen, KB. 2013. 126. Acanthaceae (Part 1). Fl. Zambes. 8(5): 1-184. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London. [CC BY]
November to March
50 to 1097 m
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: Nat. Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. [Engler & Prantl] 1: 304 (1897)
Justicia acaulis L.f.
Published in: Suppl. Pl.: 84 (1782)
Elytraria acaulis auct.
Elytraria crenata Vahl
Published in: Enum. Pl. [Vahl] 1: 106 (1804)
Elytraria lyrata Vahl
Published in: Enum. Pl. [Vahl] 1: 106 (1804)
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Lamiales
FAMILY Acanthaceae
SUBFAMILY Nelsonioideae
GENUS Elytraria
SPECIES acaulis
15 results for Elytraria acaulis (L.f.) Lindau
Barcode: PRE0113987-0 Collector(s) & number: Obermeyer, AA, 643 | 1930-7-
South Africa, Limpopo, ZOUTPANSBERG EAST DI; KRUGER NAT. PARK; KLOPPERSFONTEIN
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0999989-0 Collector(s) & number: Zambatis, G, GZ1480 | 2018-4-10
South Africa, Limpopo, Kruger National Park. Shingwedzi. On the S52 about 0.41 km west of the turning to Red Rocks drift.
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Barcode: PRE0113986-0 Collector(s) & number: Codd, LEW, 4648 | 1948-11-3
South Africa, Limpopo, KRUGER NAT. PARK; SHINGWIDZI; 10 MI. N. OF SHINGWEDZI CAMP
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Barcode: PRE0113990-0 Collector(s) & number: Van der Schijff, HP, 1850 | 1953-1-20
South Africa, Limpopo, KRUGER NAT. PARK; PUNDA MILIA
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0984332-0 Collector(s) & number: Zambatis, G, GZ 730 | 2013-6-4
South Africa, Limpopo, Kruger National Park. Punda Maria. Ridge at Thulamila.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0611804-0 Collector(s) & number: van Rooyen, N, 3136 | 1981-2-3
South Africa, Limpopo, VENDA; MUTALE
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Barcode: PRE0113988-0 Collector(s) & number: Lang, H, TRV 32206 | 1932-11-24
South Africa, Limpopo, ZOUTPANSBERG DIST.; KRUGER NAT. PARK; BAIANDBAI
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Barcode: PRE0113994-0 Collector(s) & number: Schlieben, H-J E, 12009 | 1971-3-25
South Africa, Limpopo, KRUGER NAT. PARK; MUDEN; NR. PAFURI
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Barcode: PRE0113992-0 Collector(s) & number: Acocks, JPH, 16779 | 1953-1-20
South Africa, Limpopo, ZOUTPANSBERG DIST.; KRUGER NAT. PARK; 10 MI. E. BY N. OF PUNDA MARIA
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0999971-0 Collector(s) & number: Zambatis, G, GZ1454 | 2018-4-9
South Africa, Limpopo, Kruger National Park. Shingwedzi. On the eastern boundary 91 meters north of the Shingwedzi river.
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Barcode: PRE0113991-0 Collector(s) & number: Van der Schijff, HP, 2983 | 1953-5-1
South Africa, Limpopo, KRUGER NAT. PARK; SHINGWIDZI
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Barcode: PRE0775371-0 Collector(s) & number: Barnard, IJ, 671 | 1991-3-2
Botswana, BOTSWANA; MAKGADIGADI PAN; MAKUBA - DUKWE FENCE
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0603426-0 Collector(s) & number: Fourie, SP, 1425 | 1980--
South Africa, Limpopo, KRUGER NATIONAL PARK; PUNDA MILIA.; MATSARINGWE POORT NEAR JUNCTION WITH LEVUBU RIVER NORTH OF PUNDA MILIA.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0868035-0 Collector(s) & number: Steyn, HM, 2056 | 2014-12-6
South Africa, Limpopo, Phalaborwa District. Letaba Ranch.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0869521-0 Collector(s) & number: Zambatis, G, GZ966 | 2014-3-4
South Africa, Limpopo, Kruger National Park. Pafuri; 1.71 km S of the Pafuri Ranger's turn-off on the firebreak down the eastern boundary. Landscape 25.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
1997
BOOK
Énumération des Plantes à Fleurs d'Afrique Tropicale, Vol. 4 Lebrun, J-P; Stork, ALJardin Botanique, Geneva
1997
SERIES
Plants of the northern provinces of South Africa: Keys and diagnostic characters Retief, E; Herman, PPJStrelitzia 6: 1-681
National Botanical Institute, Pretoria
1971
1900
1899
No results found for Elytraria acaulis (L.f.) Lindau
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