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Ajuga ophrydis

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Identification
Ajuga ophrydis Burch. ex Benth. [family LAMIACEAE ]
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Entry for AJUGA Ophrydis Burch. ex 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
AJUGA Ophrydis Burch. ex Benth. [family LABIATAE], Lab. 695;—Benth. in E. Meyer, Comm. 243, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 597.
Information
a perennial herb, without stolons; stem rather stout, erect, 4–12 in. high, leafy, more or less pilose or sometimes rather densely white woolly-pilose; leaves sessile or sometimes distinctly petiolate, obovate, obovate-oblong to spathulate, 1 1/4–3 1/2 in. long, 1/2–1 3/4 in. broad, rounded or obtuse, distinctly narrowed at the base, usually coarsely few-toothed, rarely quite entire, glabrous or more or less pilose, subcoriaceous, rigid; floral leaves sessile, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, usually longer than the flowers; whorls few- to many-flowered; lower distant; upper usually close together forming an elongated somewhat crowded spike; bracteoles linear to linear-oblong, scarcely as long as the calyx; calyx sessile or very shortly stalked, campanulate, 3–4 1/2 lin. long, more or less densely somewhat stiffly hairy on the upper part; teeth deltoid to narrowly deltoid, 1–2 1/2 lin. long, 3/4–1 1/4 lin. broad at the base, subacute to acuminate; corolla pale blue or lilac, more rarely white; tube 3 1/2–4 1/2 lin. long, slightly curved, gibbous in front at the base, enlarged at the throat; upper lip 3/4–1 lin. long, about 2 lin. broad at the base, emarginate; lower lip 3 1/2–5 lin. long; median lobe broadly obovate, 2 3/4–3 1/2 lin. long and broad, deeply emarginate; lateral lobes ovate-oblong, 1 1/4–1 3/4 lin. long. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; Somerset East, Bowker; Bosch Berg, 3000–4000 ft., MacOwan, 436!COAST REGION Uitenhage Div.; Zuurberg Range, 2000–3000 ft., Drège! Van Stadens Berg, Zeyher, 346! Bathurst Div.; between Blue Krantz and Kaffir Drift Military Post, Burchell, 3700! Albany Div.; Slaay Kraal, Burke! Grahamstown and neighbourhood, MacOwan! Bolton! Fort Beaufort Div.; Kat River, 2000 ft., Drège! Winter Berg, Mrs. Barber, 120! Stockenstrom Div.; Kat Berg, Miss Sole, 375! Cathcart Div.; Blesbok Flats, near Windvogel Mountain, 3000 ft., Drège! Komgha Div.; between Zandplaat and Komgha, Drège! British Kaffraria, Cooper, 169! 334!EASTERN REGION Transkei; Kreilis Country, Bowker! Tembuland; Bazeia, 2000 ft., Baur, 272! Griqualand East; around Kokstad, 4800 ft., Tyson, 1102! and in MacOwan, Herb. Austr.-Afr. 1519! Natal; Durban, Gerrard, 1218! Pietermaritzburg, 2000–3000 ft., Sutherland! Wilms, 2200! Inanda, Wood, 1436! Howick, Mrs. Hutton, 373! and without precise locality, Sanderson, 375! Swaziland; mountains above Embabane, 4500 ft., Burtt-Davy, 3336!KALAHARI REGION Orange River Colony; Wolve Kop, Burke! Bethlehem, Richardson! Harrismith, Sankey, 227! Witte Bergen, Mrs. Barber & Mrs. Bowker, 763! Basutoland; Drakensberg, 8000 ft., Mellersh! and without precise locality, Cooper, 2901! Transvaal; Heidelberg and neighbourhood, Miss Leendertz, 1033! Burtt-Davy, 3125! near Lydenburg, 4400 ft., Burtt-Davy, 7664! Vereeniging, 4700 ft., Burtt-Davy, 7029! and without precise locality, McLea in Herb. Bolus, 5781!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg! Ecklon!

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