Entry for Plectranthus orbicularis Gürke [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 orbicularisGürke [family LABIATAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 203.
Information
Stems but little branched, pubescent, 1 1/2 ft. long. Leaves long-petioled, orbicular, membranous, 1–2 in. long and broad, obtuse or cuspidate, deeply cordate at the base, deeply toothed, glabrous, gland-dotted beneath. Inflorescence racemose, lax; whorls distant, 6-flowered; cymes shortly peduncled; bracts round or broadly ovate; pedicels 1/3 in. long, shortly pubescent, as are the calyx and axis. Fruit-calyx 1/5 in. long; upper tooth broadly ovate, cuspidate; lateral teeth deltoid, acuminate; lower lanceolate-deltoid, acuminate, longer than the upper. Corolla declinate.
Distribution
Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. Stuhlmann, 826.German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Usambara; Upanga Swamp, Holst, 4159.
