Entry for HOLMSKIOLDIA tettensis Vatke [family LABIATAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, page 273, (1900) Author: (by J. G. Baker and O. Stapf)
Names
HOLMSKIOLDIA tettensisVatke [family LABIATAE], in Linnæa, xliii. 536.
Cyclonema tettenseKlotzsch [family LABIATAE], in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 261.
Information
An erect shrub, with unarmed pubescent branchlets. Leaves obovate, 1–1 1/2 in. long, entire or furnished with 1–2 large teeth on each side, cuneate at the base, thinly pubescent above, densely pubescent beneath; petiole short. Cymes few-flowered, terminal on the branchlets; pedicels long, pubescent. Calyx pubescent, finally rigidly coriaceous, 1 in. diam. Corolla pubescent externally; tube short; limb sub-bilabiate. Stamens much exserted. Fruit densely villous, deeply 4-lobed at the apex.
Distribution
Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Tete, Peters; between Lupata and Tete, Kirk!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. by the River Shire, Kirk!
