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Syncolostemon densiflorus

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Isosyntype of Syncolostemon densiflorus Benth. [family LABIATAE]
Type? of Syncolostemon densiflorus Benth. [family LAMIACEAE]
Isosyntype of Syncolostemon densiflorus Benth. [family LABIATAE/LAMIACEAE]
Syncolostemon densiflorus
Syntype of Syncolostemon densiflorus Benth. [family LAMIACEAE]
Syncolostemon densiflorus Benth. [family LABIATAE]
Syncolostemon densiflorus Benth.
Isosyntype of Syncolostemon densiflorus Benth. [family LAMIACEAE]
Syncolostemon densiflorus Benth.
Syncolostemon densiflorus
Syncolostemon densiflorus
Syncolostemon densiflorus Benth.
Syncolostemon densiflorus Benth. [family LABIATAE]
Filed as Syncolostemon densiflorus Benth. [family LAMIACEAE]
Syncolostemon densiflorus Benth. [family LABIATAE]
Type? of Syncolostemon densiflorus Benth. [family LAMIACEAE]
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Syncolostemon densiflorus Benth. [family LAMIACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for SYNCOLOSTEMON densiflorus E. Meyer [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
SYNCOLOSTEMON densiflorus E. Meyer [family LABIATAE], Comm. 231;—Dietr. Syn. Pl. iii. 385; Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 54.
SYNCOLOSTEMON densiflorum Hochstetter [family LABIATAE], in Flora, 1845, 67; Krauss, Beitr. Fl. Capund Natal. 131.
Information
apparently a branching shrub; stems or branches rather stout, 1 1/4–3 lin. thick, obtusely 4-angled, grooved down the sides, very shortly tomentose; leaves small, petiolate, lanceolate, ovate, elliptic or orbicular, acute or obtuse and apiculate, entire or slightly toothed, densely gland-dotted, thinly and minutely pubescent or glabrous on both sides; petiole 1/2–3 lin. long; blade 2–6 lin. long, 1 1/3–5 lin. broad; panicle a dense oblong spike-like mass 1 1/4–5 in. long, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. in diam., with short erect branches; bracts caducous, about 3 lin. long, 2–2 2/3 lin. broad, orbicular, abruptly cuspidate, thinly and minutely pubescent or glabrous, with a few glands on the back, often woolly-ciliate; pedicels 1/2– 3/4 lin. long, pubescent; calyx unequally 5-toothed; tube 3 1/2 lin. long, tubular, thinly pubescent outside, glabrous within; upper tooth 1–1 3/4 lin. long, 1/2– 2/3 lin. broad at the base, whence it gradually tapers to an acute point, not decurrent on the tube; lateral teeth 1 1/2–2 1/2 lin. long, connate in pairs for about 1/3 of their length, with the connate part deltoid and the free tips bristle-like or subulate, thinly ciliate or glabrous; corolla very much exserted, glabrous, pink, crimson or white; tube 8–10 lin. long, gradually enlarging upwards, straight, compressed; slightly arched behind the apex; upper lip 2 1/2–3 lin. long, unequally 3-lobed; terminal lobe about 3/4 lin. long, 2/3 lin. broad, oblong, obtuse; lateral lobes much smaller, rounded; lower lip reflexed, 1 1/2–3 1/4 lin. long, boat-shaped, obtuse, slightly and minutely ciliate; stamens much exserted, slightly unequal, at length (at least in some specimens) recurved or spirally coiled under the lower side of the corolla; upper pair inserted about 3 1/2 lin. above the base of the corolla, 8–10 lin. long, their filaments free, glabrous; lower pair inserted at the base of the lip, 4–5 lin. long, their filaments united to the apex, glabrous; stigma minutely bifid; nutlets 1 1/4–1 1/2 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, compressed, light brown, shining. null
Distribution
COAST REGION King Williamstown Div.; Buffalo Mountain, near King Williamstown, Tyson, 606! East London Div.; Panmure, Mrs. Hutton! Kaffraria, Mrs. Barber! Dugmore!EASTERN REGION Transkei; near Kentani, Miss Pegler, 386! Tembuland; Bazeia Mountain, Baur, 121! Griqualand East; mountains around Clydesdale, 3000 ft., Tyson, 2545! and in MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 861! Zuurberg, Wood, 1984! Pondoland; between St. Johns River and Umtsikaba River, Drège, 4744c! Natal; near the Umlaas River, Krauss, 96! Inanda, Wood, 6! 17! Inyangwine, Wood, 3017; Maritzburg, Rehmann, 7530! Coastland, Sutherland! Dumisa, Rudatis, 232!
Notes
The recurving and coiling of the stamens is very evident in some specimens, and not at all so in others, and probably has some connection with the fertilisation of the plant or is a sexual condition.

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