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Rotheca sansibarensis

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Isoparatype of Clerodendrum scheffleri Gürke var. mahengianum B.Thomas nom. inval. [family VERBENACEAE]

Holotype of Clerodendrum sansibarense Gurke subsp. sansibarense [family VERBENACEAE]

Isotype of Clerodendrum scheffleri Gürke var. mahengianum B.Thomas nom. inval. [family VERBENACEAE]

Isotype of Clerodendrum scheffleri Gürke var. mahengianum B.Thomas [family VERBENACEAE]

Isotype of Clerodendrum sansibarense Gürke [family VERBENACEAE]

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Name

Identification

Rotheca sansibarensis (Gurke) Steane & Mabb. [family LAMIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Pinto Basto, M.F., 2009 Clerodendrum sansibarense Gurke [family VERBENACEAE ] Verified by Pinto Basto, M.F., 2009

Flora

Entry for ROTHECA sansibarensis (Gürke) Steane & Mabb. [family LABIATAE]

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

Reference Sources

Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by O. Ryding (Aeollanthus, Basilicum, Clinopodium, Endostemon, Fuerstia, Hoslundia, Lavandula, Leucas, Micromeria, Nepeta, Ocimum, Orthosiphon, Otostegia, Plectranthus, Renschia, Salvia, Scutellaria, Stachys, Teucrium, Tinnea) and M. Thulin (Clerodendrum, Premna, Rotheca, Vitex) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

ROTHECA sansibarensis (Gürke) Steane & Mabb. [family LABIATAE], (1998);

Clerodendrum sansibarense Gürke [family LABIATAE], (1893). [type as above]

Shrub, up to 6 m tall; stems glabrous to hairy. Leaves opposite, with offensive smell; blades ovate to elliptic-ovate, 4–21 x 2–11 cm, acuminate at the apex, attenuate into petiole at the base, entire to coarsely toothed, glabrous to sparsely pubescent; petiole 3–35 mm long. Flowers in leafy cymes forming pyramidal long-pedunculate panicles. Calyx-tube 2–3 mm long; lobes ovate-triangular, 1.5–2.5 mm long, soon reflexed, glandular inside. Corolla-tube greenish white or green, asymmetric, 8–10 mm long; throat hairy; lateral lobes white, oblong, 8–9.5 mm long, midlobe pale blue-green to purple, spathulate, 1.3–1.6 cm long. Fruit 6–7 x 7–11 mm, 3–4-lobed.

near sea level.

SOMALIA Senni 555.

Distribution (external)

First record for Somalia. The only collection seen represents subsp. sansibarensis, two further subspecies were recognized by Verdcourt in Fl. Trop. E. Afr. (1992). The species is very close to R. myricoides.