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Teucrium trifidum

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Identification
Teucrium capense Thunb. [family LABIATAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Teucrium trifidum Retz. [family LABIATAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Teucrium clementiae Ryding [family LABIATAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Teucrium capense
  • Teucrium trifidum
  • Teucrium africanum
  • Teucrium clementiae
  • Teucrium indet.

Flora

Entry for TEUCRIUM africanum 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 africanum Thunb. [family LABIATAE], Prodr. 95;—Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 445; Benth. Lab. 669, in E. Meyer, Comm. 243, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 577.
TEUCRIUM trifidum Retz. [family LABIATAE], Obs. i. 21?
TEUCRIUM trifidum Wendl. [family LABIATAE], Bot. Beobacht. 50?
Ajuga africana Pers. [family LABIATAE], Syn. ii. 109.
Information
an erect undershrub, a few inches up to 1 1/4 ft. high or more, usually much branched; branches very slender, 4-angled, rather densely leafy, grey-puberulous; leaves deeply 3-fid, usually 3/4–1 in. long, sometimes up to 2 in. long or more, thinly pubescent above, grey-puberulous or -tomentose beneath; lobes linear or linear-oblong, 2–9 lin. long, usually 1/2–1 (sometimes up to 1 3/4) lin. broad, obtuse, revolute at the margin, usually entire, sometimes (especially the median lobe) more or less 3-fid; flowers axillary, solitary or sometimes 2 or more on the same peduncle; peduncle 1 1/2–4 lin. long, bearing below the middle a pair of small bracteoles; calyx campanulate, 2–2 1/2 lin. long, thinly grey-puberulous; teeth linear-triangular or lanceolate, 1 1/4–1 1/2 lin. long, 1/3– 1/2 lin. broad at the base, acuminate; corolla white, about 2 lin. long; tube 3/4–1 lin. long; lobes elliptic or elliptic-oblong, rounded, 1–1 3/4 lin. long. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Willowmore Div.; Zwaanepoels Poort, Drège, 7948 d! Somerset Div.; Bruintjes Hoogte, lower part, Burchell, 2994! Graaff Reinet Div.; near Graaff Reinet, 2500 ft., Bolus, 197! Aberdeen Div.; Camdeboo Mountain, 4000–5000 ft., Drège, 7948 b! Beaufort West Div.; between Beaufort West and Rhenoster Kop, Drège. Richmond Div.; between Richmond and Brak Vallei River, Drège.COAST REGION George Div.; Kamanassie Hills, Prior! and without precise locality, Zeyher! Pappe! Uitenhage Div.; woods of Zwartkops River and Addo, Zeyher, 63! Enon, Drège. Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, Bolton! Williamson! Queenstown Div.; Engotini, near Shiloh, Baur, 31! Queenstown, 3500–4000 ft., Galpin, 2012! British Kaffraria, Cooper, 276!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg! Ecklon!

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