Pseuderanthemum

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Pseuderanthemum in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Pseuderanthemum (Greek, false Eranthemum, the genus resembling Eranthemum from which it was separated). Acanthaceae. Smooth bushes or shrubs with often coarse-toothed leaves and mostly brilliant colored flowers; glasshouse subjects.Inflorescence racemose, 1-3-branched or simple in the axils of the bracts; fls. long-tubed, corolla with the limb spreading; lobes almost equal or the 2 rear ones smaller; stamens short, fastened in the tube, 2 staminoids present, true stamens 4 or less.—Sixty to 70 species, occuring in the tropics of both hemispheres. Pseude- ranthemum, as characterized by Lindau in Engler and Prantl, Pflanzenfamilien IV 3b:330, includes Eranthemum of Auth. not of Linn., and Eranthemum of Linn, is used for Daedalacanthus as treated in this work (see Vol. II, p. 950); and this constitutes the accepted treatment. There are a large number of horticultural species, a partial list of which occurs under Eranthemum (see Vol. II, p. 1126). Many of the species are cult, for their variegated foliage while others are grown for their fls. Warmhouse plants, prop, by cuttings any time from March to June. ^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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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