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Justicia

Not to be confused with Justitia.

For the ocean liner, see SS Justicia.

Justicia procumbens var. simplex near Talakona forest, in Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh, India.

Justicia procumbens in Talakona forest, in Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh, India.

Justicia is a genus of flowering plants in the bear's breeches family, Acanthaceae. The roughly 420 species it contains are native to tropical to warm temperate regions of the Americas, with two species occurring north into cooler temperate regions. Common names include water-willow and shrimp plant, the latter from the inflorescences, which resemble a shrimp in some species. The generic name honours Scottish horticulturist James Justice (1698-1763).^[2]

1 Selected species
2 Synonyms
3 Gallery
4 References
5 External links

Selected species

Justicia adhatoda L.
Justicia adhatodoides (E.Mey. ex Nees) V.A.W.Graham
Justicia alexandri R.Atkinson
Justicia americana L.
Justicia androsaemifolia (Nees) Lindau
Justicia angusta (Chapman) Small
Justicia angustifolia Nees
Justicia betonica L.
Justicia borinquensis
Justicia brandegeeana Wassh. & L.B.Sm.
Justicia brasiliana Roth
Justicia burchellii Hiern
Justicia californica (Benth.) D.N.Gibson
Justicia camerunensis (Heine) B.J.Pollard
Justicia candicans (Nees) L.Benson
Justicia carnea Lindl.
Justicia carthagenensis Jacq.
Justicia chrysotrichoma Pohl ex (Ness)
Justicia clausseniana Nees Profice
Justicia comata (L.) Lam.
Justicia cooleyi Monachino & Leonard
Justicia crassifolia (Chapman) Chapman ex Small
Justicia culebritae Urban
Justicia cydoniifolia
Justicia cynea Leonard
Justicia diffusa

Justicia flaviflora (Turrill) Wassh.
Justicia fulvicoma
Justicia galapagana Lindau
Justicia gendarussa
Justicia genistiformis Nees
Justicia heterocarpa
Justicia hyssopifolia
Justicia ianthina Wassh.
Justicia irwinii Wassh.
Justicia japonica Thunb.
Justicia kotschyi
Justicia lanstyakii Rizzini
Justicia leonardii
Justicia leucoxiphos Vollesen et al. in prep.
Justicia martinsoniana Howard
Justicia mirabiloides Lam.
Justicia nervata (Lindau) Profice
Justicia nodicaulis Nees
Justicia orbicularis (Lindau) V.A.W.Graham
Justicia orchioides (Walt.) Lindau
Justicia ovata
Justicia pectoralis Jacq.
Justicia peploides
Justicia procumbens
Justicia plumbaginifolia J.Jacq
Justicia polita Nees Profice

Justicia procumbens
Justicia pubigera
Justicia pycnophylla Lindau
Justicia quinqueangularis
Justicia rigida Balf.f.
Justicia riopalenquensis Wassh.
Justicia riparia C.Kameyama
Justicia rizzinii Wassh.
Justicia runyonii Small
Justicia sarithroides Lindau
Justicia secunda Vahl
Justicia serrana C.Kameyama
Justicia sonorae Wassh.
Justicia sphaerosperma
Justicia spicigera Schltdl.
Justicia takhinensis R.Atkinson
Justicia tinctoria
Justicia tobagensis (Urb.) Wassh.
Justicia tocantina (Nees) V.A.W.Graham
Justicia tweediana
Justicia umbrosa Benth.
Justicia vahlii
Justicia ventricosa
Justicia warmingii Hiern
Justicia warnockii B.L.Turner
Justicia wrightii A.Gray^[3]

Justicia americana (American Water-willow), is native to eastern North America north to southern Ontario; it is the hardiest species in the genus, hardy to USDA Plant Zone 4. Justicia ovata (Looseflower Water-willow) occurs nearly as far north, reaching Michigan.

Justicia brandegeeana (formerly Beloperone guttata, commonly called Shrimp Plant) is native to Mexico. It is hardy to −4 °C but will often recover in the spring after freezing back in USDA Plant Zone 8a.

Justicia carnea (formerly Jacobinia carnea, common names including Brazilian Plume Flower, Flamingo Flower, and Jacobinia) is native to South America in southern Brazil, Paraguay and northern Argentina. It is hardy to −2 °C but will often recover in the spring after freezing back in USDA Plant Zone 8a.

Justicia procumbens is procumbent herb with angular stems, swollen at nodes, small ovate leaves, small purple flowers in terminal spikes, inserted didynamous stamens, and shortly bilobed stigmas.

Synonyms

Genera which have been brought into Synonymy with Justicia include Acelica, Adhatoda, Amphiscopia, Anisostachya, Aulojusticia, Averia, Beloperone, Calliaspidia, Calymmostachya, Chaetothylopsis, Chiloglossa, Cyphisia, Cyrtanthera, Cyrtantherella, Dianthera, Dimanisa, Drejerella, Duvernoia, Emularia, Ethesia, Glosarithys, Harnieria, Heinzelia, Hemichoriste, Heteraspidia, Ixtlania, Jacobinia, Kuestera, Libonia, Lophothecium, Lustrinia, Nicoteba, Orthotactus, Parajusticia, Petalanthera, Plagiacanthus, Plegmatolemma, Porphyrocoma, Psacadocalymma, Rhacodiscus, Rhiphidosperma, Rhyticalymma, Rodatia, Rostellaria, Rostellularia, Saglorithys, Salviacanthus, Sarotheca, Sericographis, Simonisia, Solenochasma, Stethoma, Tabascina, Thalestris, Thamnojusticia, and Tyloglossa.^[4]