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Plectranthus ciliatus [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
Plectranthus ciliatus [family LAMIACEAE]
Common names
P. natalensis Gurke in Bull. Herb. Boissier 6: 552 (1898); Cooke, I.e. 283 (1910), partly, excl. Tyson 1793, Wood 558. Type: Natal, Camperdown, Rehmann 7701 (Z, holo.!)-
Information
Soft, branched herb up to 0,6 m tall; stems decumbent to ascending, glandular-pilose with long and short hairs having purple sap, giving a purplish colour to the stems. Leaves petiolate; blade thin to thickish and rugose in texture, broadly elliptic, broadly ovate or rarely subrotund, (35-) 40-80 x 30-55 mm, sparingly to freely strigose, under-surface usually sufÂfused with purple, with honey-coloured gland-dots, apex acute to obtuse, base attenuate or abruptly cuneate, margin regularly and shallowly crenate-dentate, conspicuously ciliate; petiole 15 — 35 mm long. Inflorescence simple or with a pair of branches near the base, racemes 60—200 mm long; flowers in sessile, usually 3-flowered cymes, forming 4—6-flowered verticils 10—20 mm apart. Calyx 8—10 mm long in fruiting stage, hispid to glandular-puberulous, fringed with multicellular hairs. Corolla with whitish background freely speckled with purple, 8—14 mm long; tube expanding, saccate and slightly deflexed at the base, narrowing slightly towards the throat; upper lip 5—7 mm long; lower lip boat-shaped, 3—6 mm long, horizontal or deflexed. Stamens free, exceeding the lower lip.
Use
29. Plectranthus ciliatus E. Mey. ex Benth. in E. Mey., Comm. 227 (1837); Drege, Zwei Pfl. Doc. 150 (1843); Benth. in DC, Prodr. 12: 62 (1848); Cooke in F.C. 5,1: 275 (1910); Verdoorn in Flower. PI. Afr. 27: t.1051 (1949); Ross, Fl. Natal 305 (1972); Codd in Bothalia 11: 414 (1975); Compton, Fl. Swaziland 502 (1976). Type: Transkei, "Omsamwubo" (Umzimvubu River), Drege (K, ex Herb. Benth. No. 4777, holo.!; MO!; P!; S!).
Range
Extending from Uniondale and Knysna in the Cape, along the semi-coastal areas of eastern Cape and Transkei to Natal, Swaziland and the mountains of eastern Transvaal; in glades in forest and in moist, shady places. Map 88.
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
Plectranthus ciliatus [family LAMIACEAE]
Common names
P. natalensis Gurke in Bull. Herb. Boissier 6: 552 (1898); Cooke, I.e. 283 (1910), partly, excl. Tyson 1793, Wood 558. Type: Natal, Camperdown, Rehmann 7701 (Z, holo.!)-
Information
Soft, branched herb up to 0,6 m tall; stems decumbent to ascending, glandular-pilose with long and short hairs having purple sap, giving a purplish colour to the stems. Leaves petiolate; blade thin to thickish and rugose in texture, broadly elliptic, broadly ovate or rarely subrotund, (35-) 40-80 x 30-55 mm, sparingly to freely strigose, under-surface usually sufÂfused with purple, with honey-coloured gland-dots, apex acute to obtuse, base attenuate or abruptly cuneate, margin regularly and shallowly crenate-dentate, conspicuously ciliate; petiole 15 — 35 mm long. Inflorescence simple or with a pair of branches near the base, racemes 60—200 mm long; flowers in sessile, usually 3-flowered cymes, forming 4—6-flowered verticils 10—20 mm apart. Calyx 8—10 mm long in fruiting stage, hispid to glandular-puberulous, fringed with multicellular hairs. Corolla with whitish background freely speckled with purple, 8—14 mm long; tube expanding, saccate and slightly deflexed at the base, narrowing slightly towards the throat; upper lip 5—7 mm long; lower lip boat-shaped, 3—6 mm long, horizontal or deflexed. Stamens free, exceeding the lower lip.
Use
29. Plectranthus ciliatus E. Mey. ex Benth. in E. Mey., Comm. 227 (1837); Drege, Zwei Pfl. Doc. 150 (1843); Benth. in DC, Prodr. 12: 62 (1848); Cooke in F.C. 5,1: 275 (1910); Verdoorn in Flower. PI. Afr. 27: t.1051 (1949); Ross, Fl. Natal 305 (1972); Codd in Bothalia 11: 414 (1975); Compton, Fl. Swaziland 502 (1976). Type: Transkei, "Omsamwubo" (Umzimvubu River), Drege (K, ex Herb. Benth. No. 4777, holo.!; MO!; P!; S!).
Range
Extending from Uniondale and Knysna in the Cape, along the semi-coastal areas of eastern Cape and Transkei to Natal, Swaziland and the mountains of eastern Transvaal; in glades in forest and in moist, shady places. Map 88.
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
Plectranthus ciliatus [family LAMIACEAE]
Common names
P. natalensis Gurke in Bull. Herb. Boissier 6: 552 (1898); Cooke, I.e. 283 (1910), partly, excl. Tyson 1793, Wood 558. Type: Natal, Camperdown, Rehmann 7701 (Z, holo.!)-
Information
Soft, branched herb up to 0,6 m tall; stems decumbent to ascending, glandular-pilose with long and short hairs having purple sap, giving a purplish colour to the stems. Leaves petiolate; blade thin to thickish and rugose in texture, broadly elliptic, broadly ovate or rarely subrotund, (35-) 40-80 x 30-55 mm, sparingly to freely strigose, under-surface usually sufÂfused with purple, with honey-coloured gland-dots, apex acute to obtuse, base attenuate or abruptly cuneate, margin regularly and shallowly crenate-dentate, conspicuously ciliate; petiole 15 — 35 mm long. Inflorescence simple or with a pair of branches near the base, racemes 60—200 mm long; flowers in sessile, usually 3-flowered cymes, forming 4—6-flowered verticils 10—20 mm apart. Calyx 8—10 mm long in fruiting stage, hispid to glandular-puberulous, fringed with multicellular hairs. Corolla with whitish background freely speckled with purple, 8—14 mm long; tube expanding, saccate and slightly deflexed at the base, narrowing slightly towards the throat; upper lip 5—7 mm long; lower lip boat-shaped, 3—6 mm long, horizontal or deflexed. Stamens free, exceeding the lower lip.
Use
29. Plectranthus ciliatus E. Mey. ex Benth. in E. Mey., Comm. 227 (1837); Drege, Zwei Pfl. Doc. 150 (1843); Benth. in DC, Prodr. 12: 62 (1848); Cooke in F.C. 5,1: 275 (1910); Verdoorn in Flower. PI. Afr. 27: t.1051 (1949); Ross, Fl. Natal 305 (1972); Codd in Bothalia 11: 414 (1975); Compton, Fl. Swaziland 502 (1976). Type: Transkei, "Omsamwubo" (Umzimvubu River), Drege (K, ex Herb. Benth. No. 4777, holo.!; MO!; P!; S!).
Range
Extending from Uniondale and Knysna in the Cape, along the semi-coastal areas of eastern Cape and Transkei to Natal, Swaziland and the mountains of eastern Transvaal; in glades in forest and in moist, shady places. Map 88.
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