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Acrotome inflata

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Name

Identification
Acrotome inflata Benth. [family LAMIACEAE ] Acrotome angustifolia G.Taylor [family LAMIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Acrotome angustifolia
  • Leucas eenii
  • Acrotome amboensis
  • Acrotome inflata

Flora

Entry for ACROTOME inflata Benth. [family LABIATAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 226, (1912) Author: By N. E. BROWN, T. COOKE and S. A. SKAN.
Names
ACROTOME inflata Benth. [family LABIATAE], in DC. Prodr. xii. 436;—Oliv. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1467.
Information
an erect villous branched annual herb 1–1 1/2 ft. high; leaves usually shortly petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate or ovate, 3/4–2 in. long, 1/3–1 in. broad or more, broadly crenate-serrate from the middle to the apex, shortly and densely pilose on both sides; whorls densely many-flowered, in usually a solitary globose head 3/4–1 in. in diam. in the axils of the upper leaves; bracts narrowly linear, pilose, somewhat shorter than the calyx; calyx 3–3 1/4 lin. long in flower, about 7 lin. long and somewhat inflated in fruit, 5-toothed; teeth deltoid or subulate, 1–1 1/2 lin. long, spinescent; corolla very pale mauve, about as long as the calyx. null
Range
Also in Hereroland and Ngamiland.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Steynsburg Div.; Zuurberg Range, Burke! Albert Div., Cooper, 1382!COAST REGION Queenstown Div.; Shiloh, about 3500 ft., Baur, 784! plains at Queenstown and Sterkstroom, 3500–4000 ft., Galpin, 1505!KALAHARI REGION Bechuanaland; Eastern Bamanguato Territory, Holub! Transvaal; Linokana, Holub! near Viljoens Drift, Gilfillan in Herb. Galpin, 7148! Nylstroom, Mrs. de Jongh in Herb. Galpin, 6500!

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