Lepidagathis

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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Lepidagathis (Greek, scale and ball, in allusion to the curved infl.). Acanthaceae. Tropical herbs and shrubs; one is in horticultural literature as a warm-house evergreen shrub. It is L. cristata, Willd., in Trop. India, with purplish flowers, linear or oblong nearly glabrous leaves and spinose-acuminate bracts and bracteoles: flowers in globose clusters or heads near the base of the plant; corolla 1/3 in. long, in bud densely hairy, white with purple or brown spots: sts. 6-24 in., procumbent. Lepidagathis has about 50 species, of which two are in the American tropics and the others in the Old World. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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Species

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• Lepidagathis riedeliana

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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