7973.000 Barleria L.

Description of the genus

Small shrubs or suffrutices. Leaves opposite. Flowers usually in cymes, or solitary and axillary, or in terminal spikes or heads with reduced leaves; bracts and bracteoles sometimes spiny. Calyx 4-partite; segments unequal, leaf-like or membranous, sometimes spiny, the two outer enclosing the inner. Corolla ± actinomorphic, 4-5-lobed or ± 2-lipped, with a tubular base; lobes obovate, sometimes unequal. Stamens 2 or 4, not didynamous. Ovary 2-locular with 2 ovules per loculus. Capsule solid in upper part; seeds flat with hygroscopic hairs.

Derivation of name: After Jacques Barrelier (1606-1673), a Dominican monk and French botanist

Worldwide: 250 species in the tropics

Zimbabwe: 7 cultivated taxa.

Insects associated with this genus:
Sarangesa motozi (Forest elfin) Larval foodplant
No image of a cultivated species but there is an image of a native or naturalised species

Links to cultivated taxa    View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

SpeciesContent
crassa C.B. Clarke subsp. crassa Description, Image
cristata L.Image
elegans C.B. Clarke subsp. orientalis I.Darbysh.Description, Image
mackenii Hook.f.Description, Image
obtusa Nees
repens NeesDescription, Image
rotundifolia Oberm.

Other sources of information about Barleria:

Our websites:

Flora of Botswana: Barleria
Flora of Burundi: Barleria
Flora of Caprivi: Barleria
Flora of the DRC: Barleria
Flora of Malawi: Barleria
Flora of Mozambique: Barleria
Flora of Rwanda: Barleria
Flora of Zambia: Barleria
Flora of Zimbabwe: Barleria

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Barleria
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Barleria
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Barleria
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Barleria
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Barleria
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Barleria
JSTOR Plant Science: Barleria
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Barleria
Plants of the World Online: Barleria
Tropicos: Barleria
Wikipedia: Barleria

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants: genus page: Barleria.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/cult/genus.php?genus_id=1340, retrieved 11 December 2024

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