Phaulopsis imbricata

Phaulopsis imbricata

Phaulopsis imbricata

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lamiales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Cladus: Lamiids Ordo: Lamiales

Familia: Acanthaceae
Subfamilia: Acanthoideae
Tribus: Ruellieae
Subtribus: Phaulopsidinae
Genus: Phaulopsis
Species: Phaulopsis imbricata
Subspecies: P. i. subsp. imbricata – P. i. subsp. madagascariensis – P. i. subsp. poggei

Name

Phaulopsis imbricata (Forssk.) Sweet, 1826

Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Aetheilema imbricatum (Forssk.) R.Br. in Syst. Veg. ed. 16. 2: 826 (1825)
  • Ruellia imbricata Forssk. in Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.: 113 (1775)

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Africa Regional: Tropical Africa Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Repu, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Réunion, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe Regional: Western Indian Ocean Madagascar Continental: Asia-Temperate Regional: Peninsular Arabia Saudi Arabia, Yemen References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Sweet, R. 1826. Sweet’s Hortus Britannicus: or a catalogue of plants cultivated in the gardens of Great Britain, arranged in natural orders. 492 pp. in 2 parts, London: J. Ridgway. Part I (pp. 1–240) Part II (pp. 241–492) Reference page. : 327

Additional references

• Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) 2003. Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: i–vi, 1–1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria. ISBN 1-919795-99-5. ARK: /t50g8869c PDF (97 MB) Reference page. 

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Phaulopsis imbricata in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 Nov. 20. Reference page. 
• Hassler, M. 2022. Phaulopsis imbricata. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2022. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2022 Nov. 20. Reference page. 
• Tropicos.org 2022. Phaulopsis imbricata. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 20 Nov. 2022.
• International Plant Names Index. 2022. Phaulopsis imbricata. Published online. Accessed: Nov. 20 2022.

Vernacular names

മലയാളം:  മൊട്ടുമറച്ചി
SiSwati: Umhlonyane
isiZulu: Umhlonyane

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