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Dinteracanthus marlothii (Engl.) Schinz


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Dinteracanthus marlothii

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Habit
20 Sep 2013

Dinteracanthus marlothii

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Dried flowers
20 Sep 2013

Dinteracanthus marlothii

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Habit
16 Jun 2020

Dinteracanthus marlothii

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Leaves and flower
16 Jun 2020

Dinteracanthus marlothii

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Flower
16 Jun 2020

Dinteracanthus marlothii

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Flower
16 Jun 2020



Family: Acanthaceae
Full name: Dinteracanthus marlothii (Engl.) Schinz
ID status: Fairly certain
Afrikaans common name(s): -
English common name(s): -
Synonym(s): Ruellia marlothii Engl. (1889)
Ruellia velutina (C.B. Clarke) E. Phillips
Dinteracanthus velutinus C.B. Clarke
Dinteracanthus velutinus Schinz

Status: Native
Description: Corollas mostly brick red but pink, yellow and white variants not uncommon. (from Taxonomic Novelties in Namibian Ruellia (Acanthaceae), Tripp and Dexter, Systematic Botany (2012), 37(4): pp. 1023–1030)

D. marlothii has several flower colour forms (from yellow and white through to pink/mauve) but the shape of the flowers is consistent. (from https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/24606142#activity_comment_2869056)

Laubblätter ungestielt oder bis 5 mm lang gestielt, eiförmig, am Grunde abgestutzt oder abgerundet, beidseitig weichbehaart, + 30 mm lang und + 22 mm breit, spitzlich oder stumpf, mit Stieldrüsen, am Rande mit langen Haaren. Blüten ungestielt. Kelchabschnitte mähnenartig behaart, lanzettlich spatelförmig, spitzlich, einer + 23 mm lang und + 6 mm breit, die übrigen auffallend schmäler , (zwei + 3 mm breit und + 20 mm lang und zwei 0.5 mm breit und 16 mm lang). Krone aussen lang weich behaart, der eng röhrenförmige Teil der Krone + 10 mm lang, die Krone daher nicht "inflated from near the base", oberwärts trichterförmig, kaum gekrümmt, der Saum 5 lappig. Staubblätter in der Krone eingeschlossen, Staubblätter 4-5 mm lang. (Beiträge zur Kenntnis der afrikanischen Flora XXVI, Hans Schinz, Issue 71 of Mitteilungen aus dem Botanischen Museum der Universität Zürich, 1915)
Link(s) African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science
Kew Herbarium Catalogue
BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium
Züricher Herbarien
iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer)
iNaturalist (Namibia)
iNaturalist (southern Africa)
Flora of Zimbabwe
Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie
Tree Atlas of Namibia
Content last updated: 18 Apr 2024


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