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Acanthus
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Global Distribution
South East Asia: Exotic
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Alappuzha
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يتوزع هذا النوع في بروناي دار السلام، والمنطقة الاقتصادية الصينية الخاصة، وكريك تاون، والمنطقة الاقتصادية الإندونيسية الخاصة، وشمال شرق أستراليا، وشمال غرب أستراليا، والمنطقة الاقتصادية الفليبينية الخاصة، والمنطقة الاقتصادية السنغافورية الخاصة، والمنطقة الاقتصادية التايوانية الخاصة، والمنطقة الاقتصادية التايلاندية الخاصة، والمنطقة الاقتصادية الفيتنامية الخاصة.
Herbs, shrubs or sometimes climbers. Stipules 0. Leaves opposite, usually entire, less often toothed. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic or zygomorphic. Bracts and bracteoles usually present. Calyx 4-5-partite, rarely 2-lipped or with 10-18 teeth (Thunbergia). Corolla gamopetalous, 1-2-lipped or 5-lobed. Stamens 2 or 4, inserted on corolla. Anthers 1- or 2-thecous, with thecae together or one above the other. Ovary superior, 2-locular with (1-)2(-3 or more) ovules in each loculus. Fruit a loculicidal capsule, often explosively dehiscent.
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Rights holder/Author | Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings, Flora of Zimbabwe |
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"Shrubs to 1.5 m high; stem glabrous, internode 2.5 to 3 cm long, spines paired at the base of the petiole, straight. Leaves opposite, pinnatifid, c. 7.5 x 2.5 cm, serrations spinous; petiole c. 0.5 cm long. Flowers in terminal c. 3.5 cm long racemes; bract early caduceus; bracteoles 2, c. 8 x 3 mm, lanceolate, acute, puberulous along margins. Calyx lobes 4, unequal; outer 2 c. 1.5 x 1 cm, inner 2 c. 1 x 0.5 cm, pubescent along margins. Corolla tube c. 0.5 cm, lobes c. 3.6 x 3 cm, white, upper lip obsolete, lower lip elongate, obovate, shortly 3 lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, filaments stout, curved, c. 1.5 cm and 1.3 cm long; anthers 1 celled, bearded, 1 cm long. Ovary 0.5 cm long; style 3.5 cm long, shortly bifid. Capsule ellipsoid and compressed; seeds 4."
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Habit: Shrub
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Habitat and Ecology
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- Terrestrial
- Marine
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