taxonID	type	description	language	source
03F587D3FFBB421FFF93D780EB7FF928.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The epithet ‘ cubangensis ’ denotes the Cubango River drain- age in which this species is found. Erect or decumbent perennial herb, several annual, many-branch- ed stems 15 – 65 cm tall from a woody base and rootstock, burnt stem bases from previous years’ growth sometimes persisting; stems quadrangular, two opposite sides with a central furrow, other two opposite sides either flat or with two shallow furrows, minutely retrorse-puberulous, hairs often more numerous on the two centrally furrowed sides, most conspicuous on lowermost internodes; nodal line with longer hairs. Leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate, longest blades 29 – 46 by 2.3 – 3.2 mm (length: width ratio 10 – 16: 1); base cuneate, margin entire, apex acute, surfaces with sparse and inconspicuous minute antrorse hairs mainly along margin; venation of 5 parallel veins, ± prominent particularly on adaxial surface. Inflorescences terminal and in upper axils, secund spikes 25 – 70 mm long; rachis (at least distally), bracts, bracteoles and calyces puberulous with mixed patent eglandular and capitate-glandular hairs; peduncle 3.5 – 12 mm long; each node of inflorescence single-flowered; bracts paired, minute, lanceolate or triangular, 1.8 – 4.8 by 0.7 – 1.5 mm in central portion of spike, dark green or purplish with paler base, midrib prominent; flowers sessile along rachis or lowermost flowers on a secondary peduncle to 5 mm long; calyx immediately subtended by erect paired bracteoles, lanceolate, 2.5 – 5.5 by 0.7 – 1.8 mm, pale yellowish cream distally, green towards apex, with pale hyaline margin. Calyx divided almost to base into five subequal linear-lanceolate lobes 6 – 7.5 by 0.7 – 1 mm in flower, extending somewhat in fruit when up to 9.5 by 1.6 mm, pale yellowish cream proximally and along margin, dark green to pinkish brown towards apex and along three parallel veins. Corolla 12 – 13 mm long, cream-white, pal- ate of lower lip pink with white veins in raised ‘ herring-bone’ pat- tern, eglandular-puberulous externally mainly on lips; tube ± 7.5 mm long, cylindrical with ventricose floor ± 2 mm from base, pubescent internally at base of pouch and at base of rugula (stylar furrow); upper lip hooded, 5.5 – 6 mm long, apex shallowly bilobed; lower lip 5.2 – 6.2 mm long, reflexed distally at anthesis, apex 3 - lobed, lateral lobes 1.2 – 1.5 by 1 – 1.1 mm, median lobe broader, 1.7 – 1.8 mm wide. Stamens inserted ± 5.5 mm from base of corolla tube; filaments white, 5.5 – 5.7 mm long; anthers at first green, turning dark brown, with thecae overlapping for ± half their length, oblique, upper theca 1 – 1.2 mm long, lower theca 1.2 – 1.4 mm long, with basal white subulate appendage 1 – 1.3 mm long, both thecae with few irregular rounded protru- sions (? glands) on inner surface. Ovary oblong-ovoid, 1.4 – 1.7 mm long, sparsely puberulous towards apex; style 9 – 10 mm long, pubescent in proximal half; stigma shortly bifid. Capsule only seen in immature state, 2 - seeded, ± 11 mm long, shortly stipitate, eglandular-puberulous externally; immature seeds somewhat compressed, with smooth surface, glabrous. Distribution & Ecology — Justicia cubangensis is found in Cuando Cubango and Huíla provinces of South-central Angola. It grows in open, sunny areas amongst grassland in open miombo woodland and open thicket on sandy soils, at ± 1350 – 1400 m elevation. Conservation — This species is currently known only from three localities: the Cuchi River gorge, the vicinity of the municipality of Menongue and between Kuvango and Chipindo. Only a single plant was observed at Cuchi River gorge and Gossweiler recorded it as rare at Menongue, while Santos & Barroso recorded it as occurring in scattered tufts near Kuvango. This region of Angola has not been thoroughly botanized, and furthermore, many Angolan Acanthaceae collections were lost – presumed destroyed – during the civil war (see Darbyshire et al. 2019). It may therefore prove to be more widespread and / or locally common than current evidence suggests. The sites around Menongue are likely to have been impacted by the continued development of this town and the related expansion of agriculture in the surrounding area. The species may be tolerant to some degree of disturbance, however, as the Cuchi River gorge site was open and was possibly cleared from the surrounding miombo. In light of the incomplete evidence to date, Justicia cubangensis is provisionally assessed as Data Deficient (DD). Additional specimens seen. ANGOLA, Gossweiler 2701 (BM [BM 001135166],? K - see note), Menongue [Munongue], fl. & imm fr., 20 April 1906; Gossweiler 3100 (BM [BM 001135165], K), Ganguellas [Gunguellas], at Menongue [Mu- nongue], fl. & imm fr., April 1906; Santos & Barroso 2674 (LISC *), Kuvango [Artur de Paiva], na estrada para Chipindo, fl., 10 May 1969. Notes — As noted in the Introduction, this species has previ- ously been confused with Justicia lolioides with which it shares narrow foliage and very slender, secund inflorescence spikes. However, it is easily separated by the characters listed in the diagnosis and in Table 1. In addition to a duplicate of Gossweiler 3100 (incorrectly labelled as 30100), there is a second, unnumbered Gossweiler collection of this species at K with no locality data or date; it may be a duplicate of Gossweiler 2701. The Cuchi River gorge, the type locality for this species, is a site of considerable botanical importance. It is one of the few places in the region where rock emerges from the overlying sand and is the locus classicus of succulents such as Aloe metallica Engl. & Gilg and Euphorbia faucicola L. C. Leach. In addition to the new species of Justicia, the 17 collections made at Cuchi River gorge in May 2015 included two new botanical records for Cuando Cubango Province, recorded below. A subsequent visit to the site in November 2016 revealed a species of Crotalaria L. that is also probably new to science. Eriocaulon angustibracteum Kimp. (1994) 329 (Eriocaulaceae) Goyder 8071 (INBAC, K, LUBA, PRE), Angola, Cuando Cubango Province, Cuchi River gorge c. 7 km N of Cuchi, 28 May 2015. This is only the third record of this species from Angola. It was not recorded by Figueiredo & Smith (2008) in their checklist of Angolan plants, but a collection at K from Huambo province, near Ukuma [Cuma], made in 1959 (Damann in Herb. Hess 59 / 228) was redetermined as this species by Sylvia Phillips in 2016. It was also collected near Capaia, Lunda Norte, in 2013 (Goyder et al. 7163). The species is quite widely distributed and has been recorded from southern Tanzania, Zambia, the Ka- tanga region of D. R. Congo, and Cameroon (Phillips 2010: 65). Crepidorhopalon schweinfurthii (Oliv.) Eb. Fisch. (1989) 443; (1992) 130 (Linderniaceae) Goyder 8060 (INBAC, K, LUBA, PRE), Angola, Cuando Cubango Province, Cuchi River gorge c. 7 km N of Cuchi, 28 May 2015. This species was listed by Ghazanfar (2008) under the name Torenia schweinfurthii Oliv. (Scrophulariaceae), and within An- gola it has been recorded from Benguela, Huíla, Malange and Moxico provinces. It has a wide but scattered distribution from Mali to South Sudan, and south to Mozambique and Angola (Darbyshire et al. 2015 a: 329).	en	Darbyshire, I., Goyder, D. J. (2019): Notes on Justicia sect. Monechma (Acanthaceae) in Angola, including two new species. Blumea 64 (2): 97-107, DOI: 10.3767/blumea.2019.64.02.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.3767/blumea.2019.64.02.01
03F587D3FFBC421DFCDCD05AEB56FAD9.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The epithet ‘ eriniae ’ honours Dr. Erin Tripp of the Museum of Natural History (COLO Herbarium) at the University of Colorado, a leading authority on Acanthaceae, great all-round naturalist and collector of the type specimen of this species. Dr. Tripp also kindly provided extra floral measure- ments from the COLO isotype. Brittle-stemmed herb, with many-branched stems to 50 – 75 cm tall; stems quadrangular or somewhat 6 - angular, pale-pubes- cent throughout, hairs patent or those immediately above the nodes somewhat deflexed. Leaves with a short, ill-defined petiole to 4.5 mm long, blade lanceolate to narrowly so, longest blades 57 – 65 by 8.5 – 13 mm (length: width ratio 4.5 – 6.7: 1); base cuneate, margin entire, apex acute, surfaces sericeouspuberulous when young, more sparse at maturity when hairs most numerous along veins beneath, midrib above and margin; lateral veins 2 or 3 per side, markedly ascending, with scalariform tertiary venation between midrib and lateral veins. Inflorescences terminal and sometimes also in upper axils, secund spikes 5.5 – 8 cm long, each node of inflorescence single-flowered, lax, up to 9 nodes along spike; peduncle 10 – 19 mm long, rachis eglandular-puberulous; bracts paired, lanceolate, 3.5 – 5.5 by 1.5 mm in central portion of spike (those at lower- most fertile node can be longer and more linear), at first pale yel- lowish with 3 prominent (brown-) green veins, becoming brown with age; flowers sessile, calyx immediately subtended by erect paired bracteoles, resembling bracts but 4.5 – 6 by 1 – 2 mm, apex ± attenuate, 3 - veined but midvein apparently composed of two partially fused parallel veins. Calyx divided almost to base into five subequal linear-lanceolate lobes 8 – 9 by 1.3 – 2 mm in flower, extending somewhat in fruit when up to 10.5 mm long, pale yellowish cream with three markedly raised parallel green veins, apices green, external surface eglandular-puberulous, hairs along the margins longer and somewhat crisped. Corolla 18 – 18.5 mm long, white, eglandular-pubescent externally; tube ± 10.5 mm long including unexpanded basal portion 2.5 – 3.5 mm long, floor of expanded throat markedly ventricose, 6.5 mm deep centrally (when flattened), 3 mm deep at mouth; upper lip hooded, ± 8 mm long, apex shallowly bilobed; lower lip ± 8.5 mm long, apex 3 - lobed, lobes rounded, 2.5 mm long, median lobe broader, palate of lower lip with weakly raised ‘ herring-bone’ pattern. Stamens inserted ± 7 – 8 mm from base of corolla tube; filaments 6 – 7.5 mm long; anthers with thecae overlapping for ± 1 / 3 their length, somewhat oblique, upper theca 1.2 mm long, lower theca 1.45 – 1.5 mm long, with basal pale yellowish appendage 1.7 – 1.9 mm long, apex unevenly and inconspicuously forked, anther connective pilose at apex. Ovary oblong-ovoid, ± 3 mm long, sparsely puberulous towards apex; style ± 16 mm long, sparsely puberulous, hairs becom- ing denser in proximal portion; stigma minutely bifid, one lobe much reduced. Capsule 2 - seeded, 10.5 – 11 mm long, shortly stipitate, eglandular-puberulous externally; seeds lenticular, compressed, black, 3.5 – 4 mm diam, with smooth surface. Distribution & Ecology — Justicia eriniae is recorded from Namibe Province of Southwest Angola where it is known only from the type specimen. It was recorded from roadside thorny scrub in lowland Colophospermum mopane woodland at 189 m elevation. Conservation — Only a small population of fewer than 10 plants was recorded at the single locality known for this species, but the surrounding areas were not extensively searched by the collectors, and potentially suitable habitat is widespread in the region. Although it was collected from a roadside site, it was in a largely undisturbed area with very little traffic. Mining of marble occurs in the vicinity of the type locality but does not appear to impact this species (E. A. Tripp, pers. comm.). With more information needed on its full range and abundance, J. eriniae is currently considered to be Data Deficient (DD) but it may prove to be of Least Concern as threats appear to be minimal. Taxonomic notes — Justicia eriniae is most likely to be confused with J. tricostata, a recently described species from rock outcrops and stony soils in miombo woodland in Zambia and Tanzania (Vollesen 2010, 2015) which does not extend to Angola. They share the combination of lanceolate leaves, eglandular inflorescence indumentum and prominently 3 - veined calyx lobes, bracts and bracteoles. This latter character is widespread in the perennial species of Justicia sect. Monechma Group I sensu Kiel et al. (2017; see Discussion below) but is particularly marked in these two species. However, J. eriniae clearly differs in the characters listed in the diagnosis, and also occurs in much drier habitat.	en	Darbyshire, I., Goyder, D. J. (2019): Notes on Justicia sect. Monechma (Acanthaceae) in Angola, including two new species. Blumea 64 (2): 97-107, DOI: 10.3767/blumea.2019.64.02.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.3767/blumea.2019.64.02.01
03F587D3FFBE421CFCDDD228EDE9FD6E.taxon	description	Therefore, with the addition of the new species J. cubangensis and J. eriniae, twelve species of Justicia sect. Monechma Group I are currently known from Angola and a provisional key to these species is provided here to aid their identification. A summary of our current knowledge of each of these species in Angola is also provided below, including citation of all specimens seen. No existing combinations in Justicia are available for three Angolan endemic species: M. glaucifolium S. Moore, M. rigidum S. Moore and M. virgultorum S. Moore; the new combinations (or, in the case of M. rigidum, a new name) are therefore formalised here. This may be a temporary solution in view of the uncertainty over the future generic delimitation in the ‘ justicioid’ lineage, but as we currently accept Justicia sect. Monechma (see Introduction), it is sensible to make the required combinations in Justicia for all the Angolan species.	en	Darbyshire, I., Goyder, D. J. (2019): Notes on Justicia sect. Monechma (Acanthaceae) in Angola, including two new species. Blumea 64 (2): 97-107, DOI: 10.3767/blumea.2019.64.02.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.3767/blumea.2019.64.02.01
03F587D3FFBF421CFCDCDF40EB90F7A7.taxon	description	See New Species accounts above.	en	Darbyshire, I., Goyder, D. J. (2019): Notes on Justicia sect. Monechma (Acanthaceae) in Angola, including two new species. Blumea 64 (2): 97-107, DOI: 10.3767/blumea.2019.64.02.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.3767/blumea.2019.64.02.01
03F587D3FFB04213FF93D7F8EED7FF1E.taxon	description	See New Species accounts above.	en	Darbyshire, I., Goyder, D. J. (2019): Notes on Justicia sect. Monechma (Acanthaceae) in Angola, including two new species. Blumea 64 (2): 97-107, DOI: 10.3767/blumea.2019.64.02.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.3767/blumea.2019.64.02.01
03F587D3FFB04213FF93D64EEFDFFDB1.taxon	description	Monechma glaucifolium S. Moore in J. Bot. 49 (1911) 310; S. Moore (1930) 138. — Type: Gossweiler s. n. (holo BM [BM 000923665]), Angola, without precise locality or date. Distribution & Ecology — Justicia glaucifolia is known only from the type specimen, for which the collection data were lost. The exact distribution and the ecology of this species are therefore unknown, but it is currently considered to be endemic to Angola.	en	Darbyshire, I., Goyder, D. J. (2019): Notes on Justicia sect. Monechma (Acanthaceae) in Angola, including two new species. Blumea 64 (2): 97-107, DOI: 10.3767/blumea.2019.64.02.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.3767/blumea.2019.64.02.01
03F587D3FFB04213FF93D523EDE0FB17.taxon	distribution	Distribution & Ecology — Justicia laeta is known only from the two syntype gatherings from Malange province, collected from bushy hillslopes and amongst rocks (Hiern 1900). Additional Angolan specimen seen. Welwitsch 5081 (BM), Pungo An- dongo, Fonte de Casamba, fl. & imm. fr., May 1857. Note — Moore (1880) suggested that his J. laeta is allied to J. petiolaris (E. Mey. ex Nees) T. Anderson, but did not elaborate on this affinity. Justicia petiolaris belongs within sect. Tyloglossa (Hochst.) Lindau (Vollesen 2015, Kiel et al. 2017) and is morphologically very different to J. laeta. The BM syntype Welwitsch 5081 includes an immature capsule with poorly developed seeds that appear to be smooth as in sect. Monechma. This, together with the prominently 3 - veined calyx lobes, bracts and bracteoles, and the fact that some of the spikes of the inflorescence are secund, indicates that this species belongs in sect. Monechma Group I. See also note to species 6 below.	en	Darbyshire, I., Goyder, D. J. (2019): Notes on Justicia sect. Monechma (Acanthaceae) in Angola, including two new species. Blumea 64 (2): 97-107, DOI: 10.3767/blumea.2019.64.02.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.3767/blumea.2019.64.02.01
03F587D3FFB04213FCDCD4FDEA00FA0F.taxon	distribution	Distribution & Ecology — Justicia lolioides var. latifolia is endemic to Angola and is known only from the type specimen from Malange province, where it was recorded as growing in dense masses in somewhat dry wooded pastures with sparse herbage (Hiern 1900). Notes — Clarke (1900: 218) recorded this species as oc- curring in ‘ Pungo Andongo and Huila’ but this is in error as the syntypes of var. lolioides (Welwitsch 5090, Welwitsch 5178) and the type of var. latifolia (Welwitsch 5099) are all from the Pungo Andongo region, and there are no further collections known. The foliage is rather variable in J. lolioides. The leaves of var. lolioides are linear as in J. cubangensis, but those of var. latifolia are oblong, up to 8 mm wide with a length: width ratio of ± 3.5 – 6: 1 and with pinnate venation.	en	Darbyshire, I., Goyder, D. J. (2019): Notes on Justicia sect. Monechma (Acanthaceae) in Angola, including two new species. Blumea 64 (2): 97-107, DOI: 10.3767/blumea.2019.64.02.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.3767/blumea.2019.64.02.01
03F587D3FFB04213FCDCD52CEBDAFC88.taxon	distribution	Distribution & Ecology — Justicia lolioides var. lolioides is endemic to Angola where it is recorded from Malange province. It is only known from the two original syntypes; Welwitsch recorded it from ‘ moist, hot wooded parts of Mata de Mutollo’ (Hiern 1900: 822). Additional Angolan specimen seen. Welwitsch 5090 (original syntypes BM, K, LISU *), Pungo Andongo, fr., without date.	en	Darbyshire, I., Goyder, D. J. (2019): Notes on Justicia sect. Monechma (Acanthaceae) in Angola, including two new species. Blumea 64 (2): 97-107, DOI: 10.3767/blumea.2019.64.02.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.3767/blumea.2019.64.02.01
03F587D3FFB04212FCDCD170ED37FC2E.taxon	distribution	Distribution & Ecology — Justicia monechmoides is widespread in southern Africa, occurring in Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. In Angola, it is recorded from Cuando Cubango, Cunene, Huíla, Luanda and Namibe provinces. It is an annual herb of a variety of woodland, bushland and grassland habitats, often favouring disturbed areas where it can be a weed. Additional Angolan specimens seen. Welwitsch 5065 (BM, K), 5123 (BM), 5184 (K), Luanda [Loanda], Imbondeiro dos Lobos, fl. & fr., Mar. 1858 [precise locality and date fide Hiern 1900]; Gossweiler 306 (BM, K), 306 B (BM), 307 (BM, K), Luanda [Loanda], fl. & fr., 1903; Pearson 2684 (K), Huíla, between Chibia and Quihila, fl. & fr., 13 May 1909; Pearson 2221 (K), between Qui- hila - Jambos, 3 – 18 miles, fl. & fr., 14 May 1909; Exell & Mendonça 2403 (BM), 2413 (BM), Namibe, Moçâmedes, Tampa, fl. & fr., 1 June 1937; Exell & Mendonça 2958 (BM), Huíla, near Leba, fl. & fr., 20 June 1937; Gossweiler 14268 (BM), Luanda, Catete, fr., July 1949; Pritchard 357 (BM), Huíla, Tchivinguiro, fl. & fr., 3 Aug. 1954; Barbosa & Gouveia 10692 p. p. (BM), Huíla, Gambos, Chimbolelo, fl. & fr., 24 Aug. 1963; Borges 227 (LISC *), Huíla, Lubango, aos 600 m da picada para a missão do Munhino, fl. & fr., 11 May 1971; Santos 2910 (LISC *), Cunene, Cuvelai, fl. & fr., 21 July 1971; Harris & Murray-Hudson 828 (K), Cuando Cubango, Rápidos M’Pupo, Cuito R., between Dingo and Lumeta, fl. & fr., 17 Apr. 2013; Harris & Murray-Hudson 1028 (K), Cuando Cubango, 20 km SE of Sianga on SW edge of R. Cuando floodplain near Benorio, fl. & fr., 28 Apr. 2013. Notes — This species is sometimes treated as conspecific with J. bracteata (under the name Monechma debile – see note under J. bracteata above) and the two are certainly close but are usually readily separated by the characters listed in the key. The five Welwitsch syntypes listed for Clarke’s (1900) Monechma welwitschii are the same as those of Moore’s (1880) Justicia monechmoides; Vollesen (2015) selected Welwitsch 5140 as the lectotype of J. monechmoides and noted under M. welwitschii (p. 214): “ type: as for Justicia monechmoides ”, but he did not formally lectotypify this name.	en	Darbyshire, I., Goyder, D. J. (2019): Notes on Justicia sect. Monechma (Acanthaceae) in Angola, including two new species. Blumea 64 (2): 97-107, DOI: 10.3767/blumea.2019.64.02.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.3767/blumea.2019.64.02.01
03F587D3FFB14212FF93D359EDE1F964.taxon	description	Monechma rigidum S. Moore in J. Bot. 49 (1911) 310; S. Moore (1930) 138. — Type: Gossweiler 3355 (lecto BM [BM 00092362], chosen here; isolecto K [K 001009703]), Angola, Menongue [Munongue], fl., Apr. 1906. Etymology. The epithet rigida is already occupied in Justicia (J. rigida Balf. f.) and so a new name is required for this Angolan species. The epithet ‘ moorei ’, honours Spencer le Marchant Moore (1850 – 1931) who worked extensively on the Acanthaceae of Africa amongst many other plant groups, and who originally described this species as Monechma rigidum. Distribution & Ecology – Justicia moorei is endemic to Angola where it is recorded from Bié and Cuando Cubango provinces. It occurs in dry sunny sites on gravel-clay soils, on short grassy slopes and on raised ground above marshes; Goyder 8210 was collected from 1648 m elevation. AdditionalAngolan specimens seen. Gossweiler 2535 (BM [BM 000923663], K [K 000378713], original syntypes), Cuando Cubango, Forte Princesa Ame- lia, Cubango, fl., 27 Jan. 1907; Mendes 2425 (LUBA *), Cuando Cubango, Menongue [Vila Serpa Pinto], fl., 9 Feb. 1960; Goyder 8210 (INBAC, K, LUBA, PRE), Bié, Río Cutato 52 km W of Kuito, Cubango drainage, fl., 11 Feb. 2016. Note — There is also an unnumbered Gossweiler specimen at K which appears to be a further duplicate of Gossweiler 3355.	en	Darbyshire, I., Goyder, D. J. (2019): Notes on Justicia sect. Monechma (Acanthaceae) in Angola, including two new species. Blumea 64 (2): 97-107, DOI: 10.3767/blumea.2019.64.02.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.3767/blumea.2019.64.02.01
03F587D3FFB14212FF93D193EBE7FE32.taxon	distribution	Distribution & Ecology — Justicia scabrida is recorded from D. R. Congo, Zambia and Angola; in Angola it is found in Lunda Sul and Malange provinces. It is found in fire-prone woodland and bushland including miombo woodland and in open, tall grassland as well as in fallow fields. Additional Angolan specimens seen. Welwitsch 5085 (BM, K, LISU *, original syntype), Dist. Pungo Andongo, prope Condo, Nbille et Bumba, fl., Mar. 1857; Gossweiler 1084 (BM, K), Loanda, Gamanhiango near Malange, fl. & fr., 5 June 1903; Exell & Mendonça 430 (BM), Lunda Sul, Xa-Sengue, fl., 8 Apr. 1937; Rocha 123 (LUBA *), Malange, Cambo, Sunginge, fl., 28 Mar. 1953. Note — Vernacular name and local uses: Moka (Chiokwe), rubbed on throat (Exell & Mendonça 430).	en	Darbyshire, I., Goyder, D. J. (2019): Notes on Justicia sect. Monechma (Acanthaceae) in Angola, including two new species. Blumea 64 (2): 97-107, DOI: 10.3767/blumea.2019.64.02.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.3767/blumea.2019.64.02.01
03F587D3FFB14212FCDCD6AFEB98FB1E.taxon	distribution	Distribution & Ecology — Justicia subsessilis is widespread across central and southern tropical Africa, largely associated with the Zambesian regional centre of endemism. It is recorded in Burundi, D. R. Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. In Angola, it is known from Cuando Cubango Province. It occurs in fire-prone woodland, bushland and short grassland; the single Angolan record was from 1234 m elevation. Angolan specimen seen. Barker, Bester & Janks 89 (INBAC, K, LUBA, PRE), Cuando Cubango, Longa River, 55 km SW of Cuito Cuanavale [Cuito drainage], fr., 7 June 2015. Note — This species was collected for the first time in An- gola in 2015 during a survey of the more southerly catchment of the Cubango and Cuito rivers in Angola by a team from Grahamstown and Pretoria in South Africa, again as part of the Okavango Wilderness Project.	en	Darbyshire, I., Goyder, D. J. (2019): Notes on Justicia sect. Monechma (Acanthaceae) in Angola, including two new species. Blumea 64 (2): 97-107, DOI: 10.3767/blumea.2019.64.02.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.3767/blumea.2019.64.02.01
03F587D3FFB14211FCDCD249EDDBFE94.taxon	description	Monechma virgultorum S. Moore in J. Bot. 49 (1911) 311; S. Moore (1930) 138. — Type: Gossweiler 3679 (holo BM [BM 000923667]), Angola, Cuando Cubango, Cassuango, Cuiriri, fl., 26 March 1906.	en	Darbyshire, I., Goyder, D. J. (2019): Notes on Justicia sect. Monechma (Acanthaceae) in Angola, including two new species. Blumea 64 (2): 97-107, DOI: 10.3767/blumea.2019.64.02.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.3767/blumea.2019.64.02.01
03F587D3FFB14211FCDCD249EDDBFE94.taxon	distribution	Distribution & Ecology — Justicia virgultorum is endemic to Angola, where it is recorded from Bié, Huambo, Huíla and probably (fide Barbosa & Correia 9051) Benguela provinces. It is recorded from dry short grassland and shrubland (‘ anharas’) and from open miombo woodland of Julbernardia and Brachystegia. Additional Angolan specimens seen. Angola, Hundt 907 (BM, 2 sheets), Benguela, zwischen Ganda und Caconda, Facenda Xangorolo, fl., Apr. 1934; Barbosa & Correia 9051 (BM, K), Huíla, Capelongo [Vila Artur de Paiva], a 26 km desta, em direcção ao Dongo, fl., 10 Apr. 1960; Bamps, Raimundo & Matos 4007 (LISC *), Huambo [Nova Lisboa] - Caála, fl., 6 Mar. 1973; Maiato FM 897 (139013) (K, LUBA), Bié, Cusseque study area, Chitembo, fl., 19 Mar. 2013; Goyder 8471 (INBAC, K, LUBA, PRE), Bié, near Linhunga R., Cubango drainage, fl., 14 Mar. 2016; Frisby & Maiato 4151 (K, LUBA, PRE), Huambo, Cubango R. rapids 75 km ESE of Huambo on Catchiungo – Kuvango (Capelongo) road, in bud, 9 May 2017; Frisby & Maiato 4183 (K, LUBA, PRE), Huambo, near Cubango River rapids 75 km ESE of Huambo on Catchiungo – Kuvango (Capelongo) road, fr., 10 May 2017. Notes — This species is allied to J. moorei (see above) from Angola, and P. G. Meyer noted on the BM sheets that they are scarcely distinct. However, the current study finds that they clearly differ in the characters listed in the key; see also Fig. 2 d – f for comparison of these species. The type of Monechma carrissoi is clearly a specimen of J. virgultorum but it has shorter calyx lobes (7 mm long) and bracts (c. 6 mm) than typical; this is most probably an immature or depauperate specimen. The K sheet of Barbosa & Correia 9051 is numbered ‘ 9051 a ’ but the collecting details are the same as on the BM sheet.	en	Darbyshire, I., Goyder, D. J. (2019): Notes on Justicia sect. Monechma (Acanthaceae) in Angola, including two new species. Blumea 64 (2): 97-107, DOI: 10.3767/blumea.2019.64.02.01, URL: https://doi.org/10.3767/blumea.2019.64.02.01
