Distribution Map

Monechma debile

   
(Justicia debilis)

Acanthaceae Acanthoideae Justicieae Justiciinae

As at April 2024, 4 herbarium specimens

South African Red List status: LC
Global Distribution: Also occurs outside southern Africa

Description (Compton's Flora of Swaziland*):
Monechma debile - Erect, up to 50 cm high, finely downy, almost velvety, throughout. Leaves on main stem with stalk up to 2 cm long, blade lance-shaped, up to 10 cm long X 2 cm wide. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, up to 7 cm long, with short intervals between flower-clusters; bracts oval, white-hairy. Calyx lobes very slender, glandular, c 7 mm long; corolla white with mauve tint on lower lip, c 8 mm long, downy. Fruit c 5 mm long, downy.

* Where species names have changed, these have been matched according to herbarium specimens quoted in this publication.

Notes:
Global distribution information: southern Africa includes southern Mozambique and southern Zimbabwe.
Restricted distribution has been based on an estimated extent of occurence of less than 100 000 km2 and/or an estimated area of occupancy of 100 km2, based on geo-referenced GBIF and iNaturalist data.