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Acrotome pallescens [family LAMIACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Acrotome pallescens [family LAMIACEAE]
Common names
Stachys steingroeveri Briq. in Bot. Jb. 19: 193. Type: S.W.A./Namibia, Steingrover 11.
Information
Shrublet 0,45-0,5 m tall, usually freely branched at the base from a perennial woody rootstock; stems slender, erect to spreading, softly woody below, minutely glandular-puberulous. Leaves very shortly petiolate; blade ovate to ovate-lanceolate or linear-oblong, 10—25 X 4—10 mm, subglab-rous to puberulous or minutely hispidulous, apex subacute, base cuneate, margin entire or with a few small teeth near the apex. Inflorescence of 2—6 spaced verticils; vertiÂcils up to 12-flowered, usually fewer; bracteoles few, linear-filiform, minutely hispidulous, somewhat spine-tipped, 3—5 mm long; pedicels 1 — 2 mm long. Calyx puberulous to hispidulous, widest near the slightly oblique mouth, 6—7 mm long at flowering, enlarging slightly at maturity, 5-toothed; teeth deltoid-subulate, spine-tipped, eventually 3 mm long. Corolla small, white; upper lip oblong, 2—3 mm long; lower lip 4—5 mm long. Nutlets dark brown, 1,5 mm long. Fig. 5:3.
Use
4. Acrotome pallescens Benth. in DC, Prodr. 12: 436 (1848); Briq. in Bull. Herb. Boissier ser. 2,3: 1096 (1903); Skan in F.C. 5,1: 335 (1910); G. Tayl. in J. Bot., Lond. 73: 11 (1935); Launert & Schreiber in F.S.W.A. 123: 7 (1969). Type: Cape, probably Namaqualand, Drege s.n. (K, holo.).
Range
Grows in sandy soil among rocks in southern S.W.A./Namibia and northern Namaqualand. Map 8.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Acrotome pallescens [family LAMIACEAE]
Common names
Stachys steingroeveri Briq. in Bot. Jb. 19: 193. Type: S.W.A./Namibia, Steingrover 11.
Information
Shrublet 0,45-0,5 m tall, usually freely branched at the base from a perennial woody rootstock; stems slender, erect to spreading, softly woody below, minutely glandular-puberulous. Leaves very shortly petiolate; blade ovate to ovate-lanceolate or linear-oblong, 10—25 X 4—10 mm, subglab-rous to puberulous or minutely hispidulous, apex subacute, base cuneate, margin entire or with a few small teeth near the apex. Inflorescence of 2—6 spaced verticils; vertiÂcils up to 12-flowered, usually fewer; bracteoles few, linear-filiform, minutely hispidulous, somewhat spine-tipped, 3—5 mm long; pedicels 1 — 2 mm long. Calyx puberulous to hispidulous, widest near the slightly oblique mouth, 6—7 mm long at flowering, enlarging slightly at maturity, 5-toothed; teeth deltoid-subulate, spine-tipped, eventually 3 mm long. Corolla small, white; upper lip oblong, 2—3 mm long; lower lip 4—5 mm long. Nutlets dark brown, 1,5 mm long. Fig. 5:3.
Use
4. Acrotome pallescens Benth. in DC, Prodr. 12: 436 (1848); Briq. in Bull. Herb. Boissier ser. 2,3: 1096 (1903); Skan in F.C. 5,1: 335 (1910); G. Tayl. in J. Bot., Lond. 73: 11 (1935); Launert & Schreiber in F.S.W.A. 123: 7 (1969). Type: Cape, probably Namaqualand, Drege s.n. (K, holo.).
Range
Grows in sandy soil among rocks in southern S.W.A./Namibia and northern Namaqualand. Map 8.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Acrotome pallescens [family LAMIACEAE]
Common names
Stachys steingroeveri Briq. in Bot. Jb. 19: 193. Type: S.W.A./Namibia, Steingrover 11.
Information
Shrublet 0,45-0,5 m tall, usually freely branched at the base from a perennial woody rootstock; stems slender, erect to spreading, softly woody below, minutely glandular-puberulous. Leaves very shortly petiolate; blade ovate to ovate-lanceolate or linear-oblong, 10—25 X 4—10 mm, subglab-rous to puberulous or minutely hispidulous, apex subacute, base cuneate, margin entire or with a few small teeth near the apex. Inflorescence of 2—6 spaced verticils; vertiÂcils up to 12-flowered, usually fewer; bracteoles few, linear-filiform, minutely hispidulous, somewhat spine-tipped, 3—5 mm long; pedicels 1 — 2 mm long. Calyx puberulous to hispidulous, widest near the slightly oblique mouth, 6—7 mm long at flowering, enlarging slightly at maturity, 5-toothed; teeth deltoid-subulate, spine-tipped, eventually 3 mm long. Corolla small, white; upper lip oblong, 2—3 mm long; lower lip 4—5 mm long. Nutlets dark brown, 1,5 mm long. Fig. 5:3.
Use
4. Acrotome pallescens Benth. in DC, Prodr. 12: 436 (1848); Briq. in Bull. Herb. Boissier ser. 2,3: 1096 (1903); Skan in F.C. 5,1: 335 (1910); G. Tayl. in J. Bot., Lond. 73: 11 (1935); Launert & Schreiber in F.S.W.A. 123: 7 (1969). Type: Cape, probably Namaqualand, Drege s.n. (K, holo.).
Range
Grows in sandy soil among rocks in southern S.W.A./Namibia and northern Namaqualand. Map 8.
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