''Anisotes'' is a genus of

Afrotropical The Afrotropical realm is one of Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Africa south of the Sahara Desert, the majority of the Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, southern Iran and extreme southwestern Pakistan, and the island ...

plants in the family Acanthaceae. The genus is morphologically similar to ''

Metarungia ''Metarungia galpinii'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Acanthaceae of dicotyledonous flowering plants. It is a shrub endemic to the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Afr ...

'', from which it differs mainly in the dehiscence of the fruit capsule, and the nature of the placenta. Placentas (with attached retinacula) remain attached to the inner surface of fruit capsules in ''Anisotes''. They favour sandy ground or tropical to subtropical dry forest. The corolla consists of a two-lipped flower that is orange to red in colour. Four seeds are produced in a woody fruit capsule. Two of the six Madagascar species, ''A. hygroscopicus'' and ''A. venosus'', are unique in the genus in having hygroscopic trichomes on their seeds.

Species

It includes the following species: * '' Anisotes bracteatus'' Milne-Redh. – southern Africa * ''

Anisotes divaricatus ''Anisotes'' is a genus of Afrotropical plants in the family Acanthaceae. The genus is morphologically similar to ''Metarungia'', from which it differs mainly in the dehiscence of the fruit capsule, and the nature of the placenta. Placentas (wi ...

'' T.F.Daniel, Mbola, Almeda & Phillipson – southwestern Madagascar * '' Anisotes diversifolius''

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* '' Anisotes dumosus'' Milne-Redh. * '' Anisotes formosissimus'' (Klotzsch) Milne-Redh. – Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi * '' Anisotes galanae'' (Baden) Vollesen * '' Anisotes guineensis'' Lindau * '' Anisotes hygroscopicus'' T.F.Daniel, 2013 – Madagascar * '' Anisotes involucratus'' Fiori * '' Anisotes longistrobus'' ( C.B.Clarke) Vollesen * '' Anisotes macrophyllus'' (Lindau) Heine * ''

Anisotes madagascariensis ''Anisotes'' is a genus of Afrotropical plants in the family Acanthaceae. The genus is morphologically similar to ''Metarungia'', from which it differs mainly in the dehiscence of the fruit capsule, and the nature of the placenta. Placentas (wi ...

'' Benoist – southwestern Madagascar * '' Anisotes nyassae'' Baden * '' Anisotes parvifolius'' Oliv. * '' Anisotes perplexus '' T.F.Daniel, 2013 – Madagascar * '' Anisotes rogersii'' S.Moore – southern Africa * '' Anisotes sessiliflorus'' (T.Anderson) C.B.Clarke * '' Anisotes spectabilis'' (

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) Vollesen * '' Anisotes subcoriaceus'' T.F.Daniel, 2013 – Madagascar * ''

Anisotes tangensis ''Anisotes'' is a genus of Afrotropical realm, Afrotropical plants in the family Acanthaceae. The genus is morphologically similar to ''Metarungia'', from which it differs mainly in the dehiscence of the fruit capsule, and the nature of the place ...

'' Baden * '' Anisotes trisulcus'' (Forssk.) Nees * '' Anisotes ukambensis'' Lindau * '' Anisotes umbrosus'' Milne-Redh. * '' Anisotes venosus'' T.F.Daniel, 2013 – Madagascar * '' Anisotes zenkeri'' (Lindau) C.B.Clarke

References

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