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Pseuderanthemum

(Pseuderanthemum)

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Description

Pseuderanthemum is a genus of plant in family Acanthaceae. They are herbs, shrubs or small trees. Leaves elliptic, ovate or lanceolate, margins entire to undulated, cytochites generally visible on both surfaces in the dry specimens; commonly petiolated. Inflorescences in clusters, spikes or panicles, terminal or axillary, 1 bract and 2 bracts embracing each flower or fascicle of flowers; corolla subactinomorfa, hypocrateriform, white, blue, purple or pink, the narrow tube. Claviform fruits. The genus was described by Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer and published in Sitzungsberichte der Mathematisch-Physikalischen Classe (Klasse) der KB Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 13 (2): 282. 1883. 2 The type species is: Pseuderanthemum alatum (Nees) Radlk .

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Scrophulariales
Family:Acanthaceae
Genus:Pseuderanthemum
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