Porcupine flower
Barleria prionitis
Porcupine flower
Barleria prionitis
Barleria prionitis is commonly known as the porcupine flower, barleria, or thorny bush-violet, is a prickly shrub with yellow flowers. A much-branched shrub up to 1.8m tall, the lower leaf axils have spines 1–2 cm in length, one of the specific features of this Barleria. The stem and branches are terete, smooth, lenticellate and glabrous. The leaves are elliptic to ovate (4-10.5 × 1.8-5.5 cm) with both surfaces pubescent when young but becoming glabrescent soon. The large golden-yellow flowers are clustered in the axils of the upper leaves or on bracts.
Order: Lamiales
Family: Acanthaceae
Genus: Barleria
Species: B. prionitis
Binomial name: Barleria prionitis
Barleria prionitis
Barleria prionitis is commonly known as the porcupine flower, barleria, or thorny bush-violet, is a prickly shrub with yellow flowers. A much-branched shrub up to 1.8m tall, the lower leaf axils have spines 1–2 cm in length, one of the specific features of this Barleria. The stem and branches are terete, smooth, lenticellate and glabrous. The leaves are elliptic to ovate (4-10.5 × 1.8-5.5 cm) with both surfaces pubescent when young but becoming glabrescent soon. The large golden-yellow flowers are clustered in the axils of the upper leaves or on bracts.
Order: Lamiales
Family: Acanthaceae
Genus: Barleria
Species: B. prionitis
Binomial name: Barleria prionitis
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