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Vitex zanzibarensis

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Identification
Vitex zanzibarensis Vatke [family LABIATAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Vatke, W.,
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Entry for VITEX zanzibarensis Vatke [family LABIATAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, page 273, (1900) Author: (by J. G. Baker and O. Stapf)
Names
VITEX zanzibarensis Vatke [family LABIATAE], in Linnæa, xliii. 533.
Information
A shrub 4–5 yards high; branchlets shortly pubescent. Leaves 3–5-foliolate, moderately firm, green and glabrous on both surfaces; leaflets 3–5, sessile, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, entire, narrowed to the base, 3–4 in. long, 1 in. broad at the middle; petiole 1 1/2–2 in. long. Cymes laxly disposed on the branches of an ample panicle; branchlets clothed with short whitish pubescence; bracts lanceolate, minute. Calyx campanulate, 1/16 in. long and broad at flowering, canescent; teeth 5, minute. Corolla lilac, densely pubescent, 1/4 in. long; tube funnel-shaped; lobes very small.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Bagamoyo, Hildebrandt, 1303!

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