Acanthaceae

Isoglossa Oerst.

First published in Vidensk. Meddel. Naturhist. Foren. Kjøbenhavn 1854: 155 (1855), nom. cons.
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Tropical & Subtropical Old World.

Distribution

Native to:

Angola, Assam, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, China South-Central, China Southeast, Comoros, DR Congo, East Himalaya, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Free State, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mozambique, New South Wales, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Sulawesi, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • —F.T.A. 5: 227.

Flora Zambesiaca

  • in Vidensk. Meddel. Dansk Naturhist. Foren. Kjobenhavn: 155 (1854), conserved name.
  • —Brummitt in Kew Bull. 40: 785–791 (1985).
  • —Darbyshire in Kew Bull. 64: 401–427 (2009).
  • —Hansen in Nordic J. Bot. 5: 5 (1985).
  • —Kiel et al. in Taxon 55: 683–694 (2006).

Flora of Somalia

  • Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by M. Hedrén [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0