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Plectranthus cylindraceus

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Identification
Geniosporum fissum S.Moore. [family LAMIACEAE ] Plectranthus cylindraceus Hochst. ex Benth. [family LAMIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Paton,A.J.,
Related name
  • Plectranthus spiciformis
  • Plectranthus cylindraceus
  • Plectranthus moschosmoides
  • Plectranthus marrubioides
  • Plectranthus densiflorus
  • Plectranthus daviesii
  • Geniosporum lasiostachyum
  • Plectranthus villosus
  • Germanea cylindracea
  • Geniosporum fissum
  • Plectranthus pseudomarrubioides

Flora

Entry for PLECTRANTHUS montanus Benth. [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
PLECTRANTHUS montanus Benth. [family LABIATAE], (1830).
PLECTRANTHUS cylindraceus Hochst. ex Benth. [family LABIATAE], (1848).
Information
Perennial herb or subshrub, 0.3–2 m tall, moderately to densely pubescent with greyish hairs; stems woody or fleshy at the base. Leaves shortly petiolate or subsessile, very fleshy; blade elliptic, obovate, oblanceolate or suborbicular, 18–70 × 8–50 mm, apex obtuse, subacute or rounded, base attenuate or cuneate, margin slightly to prominently crenate. Inflorescences elongate, dense throughout or more often interrupted in the lower part; bracts persistent at anthesis; cymes many-flowered, subsessile or very shortly pedunclate; pedicels 2–5 mm long in the fruiting stage, with short eglandular hairs. Fruiting calyx distinctly upcurved, 2–3 mm long, rather broad, with the sinus between the 2 lower lobes deeper than other sinuses; upper lobe slightly broader and markedly longer than the other 4 lobes, hardly concave; lower lobes deltoid, c. 0.5 mm long, as long as or slightly shorter than the lateral lobes. Corolla 3.5–5.5 mm long, white or pale mauve; tube only very slightly bent, rather strongly broadened towards the throat; lower lip 1–2 mm long, rather shallowly boat-shaped, ± as long as or only slightly longer than the upper lip. Stamens free, becoming markedly longer than the lower lip of the corolla. Nutlets c. 0.6 × 0.5 mm, black or dark brown, glossy, producing mucilage when wet.
Range
N1 widespread in the eastern and southern parts of Africa and also in Yemen, Saudi Arabia and India.
Altitude range
1500–1600 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Godding 173; Lort Phillips s.n.

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