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BALLOTA africana Benth. [family LABIATAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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
BALLOTA africana Benth. [family LABIATAE], Lab. 594;—DC. Prodr. xii. 517. Marrubium africanum Linn. [family LABIATAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 583; ed. ii. 816, and Mant. ii. 412; Thunb. Prodr. 96, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 447; Willd. Sp. Pl. iii. 112. Marrubium crispum Linn. [family LABIATAE], Sp. Pl. ed. ii. 1674. Marrubium Thouini Schult. ex Weinm. [family LABIATAE], in Syll. Pl. Ratisb. ii. 23. Pseudodictamnus africanus foliis subrotundis, etc. Commel. [family ], Hort. Amst. ii. 179, t. 90. Pseudodictamnus emarginatus Moench [family ], Meth. Pl. Suppl. 139.
Information
an erect branched perennial herb, 1–3 ft. high or more, usually rather densely covered with fine often long very soft sometimes minutely gland-tipped hairs; stem and branches 4-angled; leaves orbicular, suborbicular or ovate, the larger 3/4–2 in. long and 1–2 in. broad, rounded, obtuse or rarely subacute at the apex, cordate, truncate or rounded at the base, rather coarsely and irregularly crenate or crenate-dentate, often somewhat rugose especially when young; upper leaves similar but smaller; petiole usually 1/2–1 1/2 in. long; whorls few to many, distant, globose, few- to many-flowered; bracteoles subulate, about as long as or shorter than the calyx, scarcely spinescent; calyx sessile, funnel-shaped, 3 1/2–4 1/2 lin. long, strongly 10-nerved, 10–20-toothed, when mature often with a more or less spreading orbicular limb; teeth usually irregular, deltoid or narrowly deltoid at the base, often subulate and more or less spinescent at the apex, 1/4–1 1/2 lin. long; corolla rose-coloured or white, 4–5 1/2 lin. long, pubescent outside; tube 2 1/2–4 lin. long; upper lip elliptic or ovate-elliptic, 1 1/4–1 3/4 lin. long, emarginate or bifid; lower lip 1 3/4–3 lin. long; median lobe transversely oblong or broadly obovate, 1–2 lin. long, 2–3 lin. broad; lateral lobes broadly ovate or rounded, smaller. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Ceres Div.; near Yuk River, Burchell, 1255! Laingsburg Div.; Witteberg Range at Matjesfontein, Rehmann, 2941! Somerset Div.; between the Zuurberg Range and Klein Bruintjes Hoogte, Drège! foot of Bosch Berg, 2300 ft., MacOwan, 1388! Cradock Div.; without precise locality, Cooper, 509! Graaff Reinet Div.; at Wagenpads Berg, Burchell, 2825! Graaff Reinet, Bolus, 44! Beaufort West Div.; Nieuwveld, near Bok Poort, Drège! between Beaufort West and Rhenoster Kop, 2500–3000 ft., Drège!COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; between Clanwilliam and Bosch Kloof, Drège. Cape Div.; Greenpoint, Prior! Lion Mountain, Harvey! Lions Head, Wolley-Dod, 3137! near Simons Bay, Milne, 158! and without precise locality, Hooker! Riversdale Div.; near Riversdale, Schlechter, 1965! Mossel Bay Div.; between Duyker River and Gauritz River, Burchell, 6388! Uitenhage Div.; Olivenhout Kloof, near Enon, Drège! Albany Div.; Albany, Miss Bowker! Fort Beaufort Div., Cooper, 557! Victoria East Div.; near Victoria, Mr. Barber! Queenstown Div.; Lesseyton Drift, near Queenstown, 3500 ft., Galpin, 2592!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg! Carmichael! Thom, 68! 194! MacGillivray, 674! Zeyher, 1344! 3538! Villett!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; Silver Fontein, near Ookiep, Drège! between Lekkersing and Noagas, Drège! Ara Koop, 2300 ft., Schlechter, 11242!
BALLOTA africana Benth. [family LABIATAE]
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