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Teucrium capense

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Identification
Teucrium capense Thunb. [family LAMIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Teucrium capense
  • Teucrium trifidum
  • Teucrium africanum
  • Teucrium clementiae

Flora

Entry for TEUCRIUM capense Thunb. [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
TEUCRIUM capense Thunb. [family LABIATAE], Prodr. 95;—Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 445; Benth. Lab. 667, in E. Meyer, Comm. 243, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 577.
Ajuga capensis Pers. [family LABIATAE], Syn. ii. 109.
Information
an erect undershrub, 1–3 ft. high or more; stem usually freely branched, thinly and shortly pubescent; branches twiggy, slender, 4-angled; leaves usually deeply trifid, rarely entire and lanceolate, the larger up to 2 in. long or more, shortly and thinly pubescent above, more pubescent or often canescent beneath; lobes lanceolate to linear, up to about 1 in. long, 1/2–3 1/4 lin. broad, acute, entire or 3–5-fid, revolute at the margin; cymes axillary, 3–7-flowered, as long as or longer (rarely shorter) than the leaves; peduncles very slender, 3–15 lin. long; pedicels 1–6 lin. long; bracteoles usually very small and linear, rarely up to 5 lin. long and lanceolate; calyx campanulate, 1 3/4–2 3/4 lin. long, thinly covered with short curled or adpressed hairs; teeth narrowly deltoid, lanceolate or linear-triangular, 3/4–1 3/4 lin. long, 1/3– 2/3 lin. broad at the base, acute or acuminate; corolla white, 1 1/2–2 lin. long; lobes elliptic or ovate-elliptic, 3/4–2 lin. long. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Oudtshoorn Div.; at the foot of the Zwartbergen, Bolus, 2437! Humansdorp Div.; Zeekoe River, Thunberg! Uitenhage Div.; Zuurberg Range near Bontjes River, 2000 ft., Drège, 7948 c! and without precise locality, Zeyher! Prior! Albany Div.; on the rocks of Zwartwater Poort, Burchell, 3389! Grahamstown and neighbourhood, Miss Daly & Miss Sole, 92! Bolton! Trapps Valley, Miss Daly, 550! Queenstown Div.; plains at Queenstown, 3500 ft., Galpin, 1647! British Kaffraria, Cooper, 2899!EASTERN REGION Transkei; Kreilis Country, Bowker! Natal; various localities, Sanderson, 27! Gerrard, 1215! Wood, 3566! Wilms, 2147!KALAHARI REGION Orange River Colony; Vet River, Burke! Transvaal; various localities, Junod, 1593! Sanderson! McLea in Herb. Bolus, 5780! Wilms, 1084! 1106! Burtt-Davy, 1509! 1593! 3929! 7670! Miss Leendertz, 462!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Ecklon, 30! 53! Zeyher, 1351!

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