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Stachys hyssopoides

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Identification
Stachys hyssopoides Burch. ex Benth. [family LAMIACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for STACHYS hyssopoides Burch. ex Benth. [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
STACHYS hyssopoides Burch. ex Benth. [family LABIATAE], Lab. 558;—E. Meyer, Comm. 240; Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 495.
STACHYS macilenta E. Meyer [family LABIATAE], Comm. 240; Benth. in. DC. Prodr. xii. 495.
STACHYS cœrulea Burch. ex Benth. [family LABIATAE], Lab. 558; Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 495.
Information
apparently an undershrub; stem ascending or erect, from a few inches up to 2 1/2 ft. high, slender, branched, glabrous above or sometimes very slightly or densely tomentose below; leaves scarcely petiolate, sometimes fascicled, linear, oblanceolate or linear-oblanceolate, usually 1–2 1/4 in. long, 1/2–6 lin. broad, rounded, obtuse or obtusely apiculate, rarely acute, much attenuated at the base, quite entire or minutely toothed in the upper part, glabrous, slightly glandular-pulverulent or shortly whitish tomentose; bracts lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, longer to shorter than the calyx; whorls 2–6-flowered, several, distant, in slender spikes up to 6 in. long or more; pedicels 1/2–1 1/4 lin. long; calyx tubular-campanulate, 2 1/4–3 1/4 lin. long, very sparingly pubescent, sometimes shortly whitish-tomentose, gland - dotted; teeth narrowly deltoid or lanceolate-triangular, 2/3–1 lin. long, shortly acuminate; corolla pink, pale purple or blue, more or less silky-hairy outside; tube funnel-shaped, 2 1/2–3 1/4 lin. long, curved; upper lip elliptic, 1 3/4–2 3/4 lin. long; lower lip 2 3/4–4 lin. long. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION “Cradock” (Tarka?) Div.; Tafel Berg, Mrs. Barber, 641! Graaff Reinet Div.; near Graaff Reinet, 2500 ft., Bolus, 76! and in MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 1343! Murraysburg Div.; near Murraysburg, 4000 ft., Tyson, 383! Victoria West Div.; Nieuwveld, between the Brak River and Uitvlugt, 3000–4000 ft., Drège. Middelburg Div.; Sneeuwberg Range, 5000–6000 ft., Drège. Aliwal North Div.; Leeuwenspruit, between the Kraai River and Witte Bergen, Drège, 3588 a! Albert Div., Cooper, 643 partly! 645! 784! Hopetown Div.; near the Orange River, Burchell, 2653!COAST REGION Uitenhage Div., Zeyher! Queenstown Div.; Klaas Smits River, near Queenstown, 3500 ft., Baur, 985! Cathcart Div.; Klipplaat River, Ecklon! between Kat Berg and the Klipplaat River, 3000–4000 ft., Drège!EASTERN REGION Transkei, Mrs. Barber, 791! Natal; Weenen County, near the Tugela River, Wood, 3553!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; along the Vaal River, Burchell, 1775! Vaal River near Kimberley, Bolus, 6829! Orange River Colony, Hutton! Mud  River Drift, Rehmann, 3600! Wolve Kop, Burke, 392! Bechuanaland; Barolong Territory, at Harms Salt-pan, Holub! Transvaal; Magalies Berg, Burke! Standerton, Burtt-Davy, 3163! Vereeniging, Gilfillan in Herb. Galpin, 6168!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Zeyher, 1340!

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