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Endostemon gracilis

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Identification
Endostemon gracilis (Benth.) M.Ashby [family LABIATAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, 1913 Orthosiphon glutinosus Chiov. [family LABIATAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Ocimum gracile
  • Orthosiphon glutinosus
  • Endostemon gracilis

Flora

Entry for ENDOSTEMON gracilis (Benth.) M. Ashby [family LABIATAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by O. Ryding (Aeollanthus, Basilicum, Clinopodium, Endostemon, Fuerstia, Hoslundia, Lavandula, Leucas, Micromeria, Nepeta, Ocimum, Orthosiphon, Otostegia, Plectranthus, Renschia, Salvia, Scutellaria, Stachys, Teucrium, Tinnea) and M. Thulin (Clerodendrum, Premna, Rotheca, Vitex) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
ENDOSTEMON gracilis (Benth.) M. Ashby [family LABIATAE], (1936);
Ocimum gracile Benth. [family LABIATAE], (1832). [type as above]
Orthosiphon glutinosus Chiov. [family LABIATAE], (1916);. type: S2, “Uanle Uein”, Paoli 1196 (FT holo.).
Information
Annual or short-lived perennial herb, erect to decumbent, 0.05–0.4 m tall. Leaves petiolate; blade broadly ovate or broadly elliptic, up to 7–25 × 5–20 mm, apex rounded, obtuse or subacute, base attenuate, margin crenate, often slightly revolute. Cymes 2–3-flowered; pedicels 2–3 mm long, slightly flattened. Fruiting calyx 3–4.5 mm long, open, villous in the throat; lateral lobes narrowly deltoid, slightly acuminate, shorter than the lower lobes. Corolla 4-lobed, 3–4.5 mm long, white, pink or bluish; upper lobe slightly broader than the other lobes. Nutlets 1.2–1.5 × 0.6–0.8 mm, brown, producing a small amount of mucilage when wet.
Range
C1; S2, 3
Altitude range
0–220 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Warfa 4518; Thulin, Hedrén & Abdi Dahir 7367; Alstrup & Michelsen 116.
Distribution (external)
Kenya
Tanzania
Yemen
Notes
The record of E. wakefieldii (Baker) M. Ashby in Cuf. Enum.: 852 (1963) was based on material of E. gracilis. Near Mogadishu (S2), at sand dunes near the sea, there is a rather divergent form represented by, e.g., Thulin 4425 that may deserve recognition as a separate species. It is tufted, probably perennial, and has a 3.5–4.5 mm long corolla with a more than 1 mm long lower lobe.

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