Justicia pectoralis ovata

Description

Justicia pectoralis is an herb in the Acanthus family (Acanthaceae). This water-willow is widely known as tilo in Latin America and in Cuba. In Haiti it is called chapantye and zeb chapanty- on Dominica and Martinique. Other folk names are freshcut, chamb-carpintero ("carpenter"), t- criollo ("Criollo tea"), curia, death-angel, masha-hari, or "piri piri". This species was described by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin in 1760, who provided additional data in 1763. A well-marked variety, var. stenophylla, was described by Emery Clarence Leonard in 1958.