Plectranthus phryxotrichusBriq. [family LAMIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Plectranthus glandulosusHook.f. [family LAMIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Paton, 2004
Related name
Plectranthus urticoides
Plectranthus almamii
Plectranthus glandulosus
Plectranthus johnstonii
Germanea unrecorded
Plectranthus phryxotrichus
Plectranthus laxiflorus
Plectranthus hylophilus
Common name
fru-fru (A.Chev.) (GUINEA, FULA-PULAAR (Guinea)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
Flora
Entry for Plectranthus glandulosus Hook. f. [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
Plectranthus glandulosusHook. f. [family LABIATAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 17, vii. 210.
Information
A much-branched erect herb, 8–10 ft. high, with slender pilose branchlets. Leaves long-petioled, cordate-ovate, acute, deeply crenate, membranous, glabrous, the lower 4–5 in. long and nearly as broad. Inflorescence an ample, decompound, terminal panicle; lower branches bracteated at the base by large leaves; branchlets slender, glandular-pubescent; lower whorls of the branchlets of few-flowered peduncled cymes; pedicels longer than the calyx. Flower-calyx 1/16– 1/12 in. long; tube very short; upper tooth large, ovate; lower smaller, ovate; fruit-calyx 1/4 in. long; lower teeth large cusps. Corolla 1/2 in. long; lower lip nearly as long as the tube.
