Citation: R.M. Barker, d. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 9: in press (1986).

Synonymy: Justicia adscendens R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 476 (1810); J. procumbens sensu E. Robertson in J. Black, Fl .S. Aust. 777 (1957), partly, non L.

Common name: Pink tongues, red trumpet.

Description:
Ascending herbs or small subshrubs; branches 6-angled; leaves shortly petiolate (in S. Aust.), with an abscission line at the base, oblong or ovate, variously pubescent.

Flowers in dense spikes, usually only 1 spike at each apex, sometimes 2 or 3; bracts lanceolate to ovate, with a hyaline margin (in S. Aust.) and variously pubescent; calyx segments 4 with a hyaline remnant of the fifth segment; corolla with a white tube and upper lip, lower lip pink to lilac, the palate of the middle lower lobe of the lower lip with a barred area of darker colour, externally glabrous or eglandular-hairy, internally in the tube with 2 lines of fine eglandular hairs decurrent from filaments and with a clump of eglandular hairs at the base of the palate; stamens with white filaments; anther cells deep-purple, the eglandular hairs on their backs white.

Capsule pubescent (in S. Aust.).

Conservation status: native Flowering time: No flowering time is available

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Key to Infraspecific taxa:

1. Hyaline bract margin widest in lower half; corolla pubescent externally	subsp. adscendens 1a.
1. Hyaline bract margin widest in upper half; corolla glabrous externally	subsp. clementii 1b.

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