Acanthaceae
Justicia
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Kingdom: Plantae Rank: Genus Parent: Acanthaceae Status: Valid
Vegetative Morphology
Habit: Herbs, subshrubs, or shrubs.
Leaves: Leaves simple, opposite.
Reproductive Morphology
Inflorescence: Inflorescence axillary or terminal spikes or panicles with small, distant, linear or large, imbricate bracts.
Flowers: Flowers often large and showy; calyx typically actinomorphic, 4-5-lobed, the lobes elongate-linear; corolla funnelform, 2-labiate, the upper lip 2-lobed, the lower lip 3-lobed; fertile stamens 2, exerted below upper lip.
Fruit: Fruit a clavate, bivalved capsule.
Seeds: Seeds 4 or more per fruit.