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Betonica heraclea

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Name

Identification
Betonica heraclea L. [family LAMIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Stachys aurea Benth. [family LAMIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
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  • Stachys aurea
  • Betonica heraclea

Flora

Entry for STACHYS integrifolia Vahl 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
STACHYS integrifolia Vahl ex Benth. [family LABIATAE], Lab. 562 partly;—Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 492 partly.
STACHYS aurea Benth. [family LABIATAE], l.c.
STACHYS plumosa Benth. [family LABIATAE], l.c., not of Griseb.
Betonica heraclea Linn. [family LABIATAE], Mant. 83.
Sideritis plumosa Thunb. [family LABIATAE], Prodr. 95, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 445.
Information
an erect branched shrub or undershrub; branches quadrangular, elongated, not so hard as in S. teres, very sparingly leafy, densely and shortly white- or yellowish-tomentose; leaves sessile or very shortly petiolate, oblong, lanceolate-oblong or sometimes obovate, 5–10 lin. long, 1–4 lin. broad, rounded or obtuse, rarely acute, narrowed or rounded at the base, entire or few-toothed in the upper part, more or less covered with stellate hairs, sometimes glabrescent; bracts usually about as long as or shorter than the calyx; whorls 2–8-flowered, several, the lower distant, the upper close together; pedicels 1/2– 3/4 lin. long; calyx campanulate, 2 3/4–5 1/2 lin. long, very densely yellowish-woolly; teeth subulate or linear, 1–2 3/4 lin. long, not spinescent; corolla yellow, slightly tomentose outside; tube 2 1/4–3 lin. long; upper lip suborbicular or broadly ovate, 1 1/4–1 3/4 lin. long; lower lip about 3 lin. long. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Calvinia Div.; Bokkeland, Thunberg! Sutherland Div.; Roggeveld, Thunberg!COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; Cederberg Range, Drège, 3098!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Masson!

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