Plectranthus phryxotrichusBriq. [family LAMIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Plectranthus glandulosusHook.f. [family LAMIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Paton, 2004
Related name
Plectranthus glandulosus
Plectranthus phryxotrichus
Flora
Entry for Plectranthus phryxotrichus Briquet [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)
An undershrub, with ascending dull green branches, clothed with long crisped hairs, mixed with short adpressed pubescence. Leaves distinctly petioled, broadly ovate, under 1 in. long, acute or subobtuse, closely crenate, cordate or subcordate at the base, dark green and glabrescent above, paler and pubescent beneath. Inflorescence racemose, lax, 3–4 in. long; whorls simple, 2–6-flowered; pedicels 1/4 in. long; bracts small, ovate-lanceolate, deciduous. Flower-calyx 1/8 in. long, clothed with rigid or robust spreading hairs; tube campanulate; upper tooth ovate, the rest lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla whitish-lilac, protruding 1/6– 1/5 in. from the throat of the calyx; lower lip 1/8 in. long. Stamens finally exserted.
