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Alvesia rosmarinifolia

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Name

Identification
Plectranthastrum rosmarinifolium (Welw.) B.Mathew [family LAMIACEAE ] (stored under name); Alvesia rosmarinifolia Welw. [family LAMIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Alvesia rosmarinifolia
  • Plectranthastrum rosmarinifolium

Flora

Entry for ALVESIA rosmarinifolia Welw. [family LABIATAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 5, page 332, (1900) Author: (by J. G. Baker)
Names
ALVESIA rosmarinifolia Welw. [family LABIATAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 55, t. 19. —Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 362; De Wild. & Durand, Ill. Fl. Congo, i. t. 42.
Information
A much-branched undershrub, 3–4 ft. high, with woody branches and small square densely hairy branchlets. Leaves small, sessile, lanceolate, entire, rather rigid, with reflexed edges, very hairy. Whorls many-flowered, forming simple dense racemes; bracts small, ovate; pedicels 1/8– 1/6 in. long, densely hairy, like the rhachis. Calyx in flower 1/8 in. long, densely coated with whitish pubescence, in fruit ventricose, 1 in. long. Corolla pale lilac; tube 1/4 in. long; lower lip decurved, as long as the tube. Stamens as long as the lower lip.
Distribution
Congo Lower Guinea Stanley Pool, 1000 ft., Hens, 88!Angola Lower Guinea province of Huilla, 3800–5500 ft., Welwitsch, 1636! Chella Mountains, Johnston! Cunene River, Johnston!

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