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Ocimum coloratum

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Isotype of Orthosiphon schimperi Benth. [family LAMIACEAE]
Orthosiphon schimperi Benth. [family LABIATAE]
Type? of Ocimum coloratum Hochst. [family LAMIACEAE]
Type of Orthosiphon schimperi Benth. [family LAMIACEAE]
Isotype of Orthosiphon schimperi Benth. [family LAMIACEAE]
Isotype of Orthosiphon schimperi Benth. [family LABIATAE/LAMIACEAE]
Type of Orthosiphon schimperi Benth. [family LABIATAE]
Isotype of Orthosiphon schimperi Benth. [family LAMIACEAE]
Type? of Ocimum coloratum Hochst. [family LAMIACEAE]
Original material of Ocimum coloratum Hochst. [family LAMIACEAE]
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Identification
Ocimum coloratum Hochst. ex Engl. [family LAMIACEAE ] Orthosiphon schimperi Benth. [family LAMIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Ryding,O.,
Related name
  • Orthosiphon schimperi
  • Ocimum coloratum
  • Orthosiphon rubicundus
  • Orthosiphon viscosus

Flora

Entry for ORTHOSIPHON Schimperi Benth. [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
ORTHOSIPHON Schimperi Benth. [family LABIATAE], in DC. Prod. xii. 51. —A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 180.
Ocimum coloratum Hochst. [family LABIATAE], in Flora, 1841, Intell. 23; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 358.
Information
Perennial. Stems erect or decumbent, simple or branched, densely hairy upwards. Leaves petioled, ovate, crenate, 1–3 in. long, hairy on both sides. Racemes dense or lax; whorls many-flowered; bracts minute, deciduous; pedicels short, pubescent. Calyx pubescent, finally 1/4 in. long; tube oblong; upper lobe suborbicular, much shorter than the tube; lateral teeth small cusps; lower large cusps. Corolla-tube rather longer than the calyx; lobes small. Stamens not exserted.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Tigre; among stones on the summit of Mount Scholoda, Schimper, 313! and without precise locality, Petit!British East Africa Nile Land Niamniam; Nganye, Schweinfurth, 3941!

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