Sanchezia

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Scientific Names

Read about Sanchezia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Sanchezia (after Jos. Sanchez, professor of botany at Cadiz). Acanthaceae. Showy warmhouse plants, grown for flowers and foliage. Strong erect herbs or half-shrubby plants: lvs. large, opposite, entire or slightly toothed: fls. orange, red, or purple, united into heads or spikes at the ends of the branches, or rarely paniculate; calyx deeply 5-parted, segms. oblong; tube of the corolla long, cylindrical, somewhat ventricose above the middle, limb of 5 equal, short, rotund lobes; perfect stamens 2, inserted below the middle of the tube, with 2 aborted stamens between them; anther 2-celled, the cells mucronate in front; style long, with one division small, spurlike; ovary on a thick disk, 2-loculed, with 4 ovules in each cell.— About 11 species in Peru, Colombia, and Brazil. ^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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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