Brillantaisia madagascariensis T.Anderson ex Lindau

Native to:

Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (eds.) (2006). Flore Analytique du Bénin: 1-1034. Backhuys Publishers.
• Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Exell, A.W. (1973). Angiosperms of the islands of the gulf of Guinea (Fernando Po, Príncipe, S.Tomé, and Annobon). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Botany 4: 325-411.
• Fischer, E., Rembold, K., Althof, A. & Obholzer, J. (2010). Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Kakamega forest, Western province, Kenya. Journal of East African Natural History 99: 129-226.
• Gosline, G., Bidault, E., van der Burgt, X., Cahen, D., Challen, G., Condé, N., Couch, C., Couvreur, T.L.P., Dagallier, L.M.J., Darbyshire, I., Dawson, S., Doré, T.S., Goyder, D., Grall, A., Haba, P., Haba, P., Harris, D., Hind, D.J.N., Jongkind, & al. (2023). A Taxonomically-verified and Vouchered Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea. Nature, scientific data 10, Article number: 327: [1]-[12].
• Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne.
• Hedberg, I., Kelbessa, E., Edwards, S., Demissew, S. & Persson, E. (eds.) (2006). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 5: 1-690. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps.
• Lejoy, J., Ndjele, M.-B. & Geerinck, D. (2010). Catalogue-flore des plantes vasculaires des districts de Kisangani et de la Tshopo (RD Congo). Taxonomania 30: 1-307.
• Vollesen, K. (2008). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Acanthaceae(1): 1-285.
• Vollesen, K. (2013). Flora Zambesiaca 8(5): 1-184. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• Benoist in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 60: 334
• Chev. Bot. 493.
• F.T.A. 5: 43
• in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 17: 103 (1893)

Flora Zambesiaca

• Burkill in F.T.A. 5: 43 (1899).
• Lebrun & Stork, Enum. Pl. Afr. Trop. 4: 475 (1997).
• Lindau in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 17: 103 (1893).
• Vollesen in F.T.E.A., Acanthaceae 1: 162 (2008).

Kew Backbone Distributions

• Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (eds.) (2006). Flore Analytique du Bénin: 1-1034. Backhuys Publishers.
• Fischer, E., Rembold, K., Althof, A. & Obholzer, J. (2010). Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Kakamega forest, Western province, Kenya. Journal of East African Natural History 99: 129-226.
• Sita, P. & Moutsambote, J.-M. (2005). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Congo, ed. sept. 2005: 1-158. ORSTOM, Centre de Brazzaville.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• Adansonia 11: 656 (1971)
• Biol. Skr. 51(2): 439 (2005)
• Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. London 28: 104 (1998)
• DC., Prodr. 11: 85 (1847)
• E. & P. Pf. IV, 3b: 296 (1895)
• E.J. 17: 103 (1893)
• E.P.A.: 930 (1964)
• F.E.E. 5: 372 (2006).
• F.T.A. 5: 30 (1899)
• F.T.A. 5: 43 (1899)
• F.W.T.A. 2: 254 (1931)
• F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 2: 406 (1963)
• Fl. Madag., Acanthacées 1: 29 (1967)
• Fl. Rwanda 3: 445 (1985)
• G.P. 2: 1075 (1876)
• K.B. 16: 171 (1962)
• Lebrun & Stork, Enum. Pl. Afr. Trop. 4: 475 (1997)
• Nord. J. Bot. 9: 261 (1989)
• Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. 1: 479 (1810)
• Symb. Bot. Ups. 29(3): 160 (1991)
• Synnott, Checklist Budongo Forest Reserve (C. F. I. Occ. Papers 27): 68 (1985)
• T.T.C.L.: 5 (1949)
• U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 267 (1994)
• U.K.W.F.: 583 (1974)