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Plectranthus grandidentatus

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Lectotype of Plectranthus grandidentatus Gürke [family LABIATAE]
Isolectotype of Plectranthus grandidentatus Gürke [family LAMIACEAE]
Isolectotype of Plectranthus grandidentatus Gürke [family LAMIACEAE]
Isolectotype of Plectranthus grandidentatus Gürke [family LAMIACEAE]
Isolectotype of Plectranthus grandidentatus Gürke [family LAMIACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Plectranthus grandidentatus Gürke [family LABIATAE ] (stored under name); Plectranthus tomentosus Benth. [family LABIATAE ]
Related name
  • Plectranthus grandidentatus
  • Plectranthus tomentosus

Flora

Entry for PLECTRANTHUS grandidentatus Guerke [family LABIATAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 226, (1912) Author: By N. E. BROWN, T. COOKE and S. A. SKAN.
Names
PLECTRANTHUS grandidentatus Guerke [family LABIATAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 554
Information
villous all over; leaves 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. long and as broad as long, orbicular, deeply cut all round, except at the base, into oblong or deltoid acute or subobtuse teeth, sometimes 1/2 in. deep, base subcordate, truncate or cuneate; petioles 1/4–1 3/4 in. long; inflorescence a panicle near the base, the racemes forming it reaching as much as 9 in. long; verticils somewhat distant, of 3–7 sets of white flowers at each side; peduncles 0, or rarely present and very short; pedicels 1–1 1/2 lin. long; bracts small, deciduous; fruiting calyx 2 lin. long, oblique, hairy and covered with red shining glandular dots; flowering calyx 1 lin. long, hairy; upper tooth 1/2 lin. long, and about as broad, suborbicular-oblong; other 4 teeth subequal, deltoid, acute; corolla 4 lin. long; tube 2 lin. long, deflexed at the very base, funnel-shaped above; upper lip 1 1/2 lin. long, ciliate at the apex, and with red glandular dots; lower lip 2 lin. long, 1 lin. deep, boat-shaped; nutlets 1/2 lin. long, scarcely 1/2 lin. broad, ovoid, obtuse, shining, polished, brown. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Queenstown Div.; Shiloh, 3500 ft., Baur, 797! Uitenhage Div.; Zuurberg Range, Tyson, 1177!EASTERN REGION Griqualand East; on moist rocks at Emyembe, in Umzimkulu district, 5500 ft., Tyson, 2163! and in MacOwan, Herb. Austr.-Afr., 1517! Natal; in woods at Umkomaas, 4000–5000 ft., Wood, 4606!

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