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Plectranthus punctatus

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Name

Identification
Plectranthus punctatus (L.f.) L'Hér. [family LAMIACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for Plectranthus punctatus L’Herit. [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 punctatus L’Herit. [family LABIATAE], Stirp. 87, t. 42; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 64. —Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 359.
Information
An erect perennial, with stout simple or branched pubescent stems 1–2 ft. long. Leaves petioled, ovate, crenate, membranous, slightly pubescent, the lower 3–4 in. long, the upper growing gradually smaller. Inflorescence racemose; branches short, dense in the upper half, lax downwards; rhachis very pubescent; whorls many-flowered; pedicels short. Calyx pubescent, 1/8– 1/6 in. long; tube campanulate; upper lip ovate, mucronate, as long as the tube; 4 lower deltoid or lanceolate. Corolla 1/4 in. long.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Begemeder; Gunnia, 6500 ft., Schimper, 312 of 1862 collection; Gafat, 8400 ft., Schimper, 312 of 1863 collection, and without precise locality, Schimper, 691! and cultivated specimens!

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