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Ballota africana [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
Ballota africana [family LAMIACEAE]
Common names
Marrubium africanum L., Sp. PI. 683 (1753); Thunb., Prodr. 96 (1800); Fl. Cap. edn Schult. 447 (1823). Pseudodictamnus emarginatus Moench, Meth. PI. Suppl. 139 (1802), nom. illegit. Type: same as M. africanum L. M. thouinii Schult. ex Weinm. in Ratisb. Syll. PI. 2: 23 (1828). Type: a cultivated plant.
Information
Soft, erect or spreading, greyish shrub-let, 0,3—1,2 m tall. Leaves petiolate; blade orbicular to ovate, 15—50 x 15—45 mm, densely pubescent, soft to rugose, apex rounded to subacute, base cordate to rounded, margin irregularly crenate-dentate; petiole villous, 10—40 mm long. Inflorescence simple or branched, of few to many verticils, spaced below, more crowded above; verticils usually many-flowered, subglobose, about 20 mm in diam. Calyx densely hispid-villous, glandular; tube 6—8 mm long at flowering, enlarging slightly when mature; limb spreading, 9—11 mm in diam., 10—20-toothed; teeth ovate-deltoid, subulate or spine-tipped, 0,5 — 1,5 mm long, the additional intermediate teeth often smaller. Corolla purple or pinkish to pale mauve, 10—14 mm long; tube 7—9 mm long, exannulate; upper lip 3—5 mm long; lower lip 4—7 mm long.
Habitat
The common name Kattekrui (Catmint) refers to the not unpleasantly aromatic foliage.
Use
Ballota africana (L.) Benth., Lab. 594 (1834); in DC, Prodr. 12: 517 (1848); Skan in F.C. 5,1: 368 (1910); Salter in Fl. Cape Penins. 699 (1950); Patzak in Annln naturh. Mus. Wien 63: 62 (1959). Type: Cape, collector unknown (LINN).
Range
Found mainly in arid parts of the winter-rainfall area of the Cape Province as far north as the Orange River and southern S.W.A./Namibia, often along water-courses, in the shelter of rocks or bushes, and as a semi-weed of disturbed places. Map 20.
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
Ballota africana [family LAMIACEAE]
Common names
Marrubium africanum L., Sp. PI. 683 (1753); Thunb., Prodr. 96 (1800); Fl. Cap. edn Schult. 447 (1823). Pseudodictamnus emarginatus Moench, Meth. PI. Suppl. 139 (1802), nom. illegit. Type: same as M. africanum L. M. thouinii Schult. ex Weinm. in Ratisb. Syll. PI. 2: 23 (1828). Type: a cultivated plant.
Information
Soft, erect or spreading, greyish shrub-let, 0,3—1,2 m tall. Leaves petiolate; blade orbicular to ovate, 15—50 x 15—45 mm, densely pubescent, soft to rugose, apex rounded to subacute, base cordate to rounded, margin irregularly crenate-dentate; petiole villous, 10—40 mm long. Inflorescence simple or branched, of few to many verticils, spaced below, more crowded above; verticils usually many-flowered, subglobose, about 20 mm in diam. Calyx densely hispid-villous, glandular; tube 6—8 mm long at flowering, enlarging slightly when mature; limb spreading, 9—11 mm in diam., 10—20-toothed; teeth ovate-deltoid, subulate or spine-tipped, 0,5 — 1,5 mm long, the additional intermediate teeth often smaller. Corolla purple or pinkish to pale mauve, 10—14 mm long; tube 7—9 mm long, exannulate; upper lip 3—5 mm long; lower lip 4—7 mm long.
Habitat
The common name Kattekrui (Catmint) refers to the not unpleasantly aromatic foliage.
Use
Ballota africana (L.) Benth., Lab. 594 (1834); in DC, Prodr. 12: 517 (1848); Skan in F.C. 5,1: 368 (1910); Salter in Fl. Cape Penins. 699 (1950); Patzak in Annln naturh. Mus. Wien 63: 62 (1959). Type: Cape, collector unknown (LINN).
Range
Found mainly in arid parts of the winter-rainfall area of the Cape Province as far north as the Orange River and southern S.W.A./Namibia, often along water-courses, in the shelter of rocks or bushes, and as a semi-weed of disturbed places. Map 20.
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
Ballota africana [family LAMIACEAE]
Common names
Marrubium africanum L., Sp. PI. 683 (1753); Thunb., Prodr. 96 (1800); Fl. Cap. edn Schult. 447 (1823). Pseudodictamnus emarginatus Moench, Meth. PI. Suppl. 139 (1802), nom. illegit. Type: same as M. africanum L. M. thouinii Schult. ex Weinm. in Ratisb. Syll. PI. 2: 23 (1828). Type: a cultivated plant.
Information
Soft, erect or spreading, greyish shrub-let, 0,3—1,2 m tall. Leaves petiolate; blade orbicular to ovate, 15—50 x 15—45 mm, densely pubescent, soft to rugose, apex rounded to subacute, base cordate to rounded, margin irregularly crenate-dentate; petiole villous, 10—40 mm long. Inflorescence simple or branched, of few to many verticils, spaced below, more crowded above; verticils usually many-flowered, subglobose, about 20 mm in diam. Calyx densely hispid-villous, glandular; tube 6—8 mm long at flowering, enlarging slightly when mature; limb spreading, 9—11 mm in diam., 10—20-toothed; teeth ovate-deltoid, subulate or spine-tipped, 0,5 — 1,5 mm long, the additional intermediate teeth often smaller. Corolla purple or pinkish to pale mauve, 10—14 mm long; tube 7—9 mm long, exannulate; upper lip 3—5 mm long; lower lip 4—7 mm long.
Habitat
The common name Kattekrui (Catmint) refers to the not unpleasantly aromatic foliage.
Use
Ballota africana (L.) Benth., Lab. 594 (1834); in DC, Prodr. 12: 517 (1848); Skan in F.C. 5,1: 368 (1910); Salter in Fl. Cape Penins. 699 (1950); Patzak in Annln naturh. Mus. Wien 63: 62 (1959). Type: Cape, collector unknown (LINN).
Range
Found mainly in arid parts of the winter-rainfall area of the Cape Province as far north as the Orange River and southern S.W.A./Namibia, often along water-courses, in the shelter of rocks or bushes, and as a semi-weed of disturbed places. Map 20.
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