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RENSCHIA heterotypica Vatke [family LABIATAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 5, page 332, (1900) Author: (by J. G. Baker)
Names
RENSCHIA heterotypica Vatke [family LABIATAE], in Linnæa, xliii. 94. Tinnea heterotypica S. Moore [family LABIATAE], in Journ. Bot. 1877, 69, t. 185, fig. 3.
Information
A much-branched undershrub, 1 1/2–2 ft. high, with pale slender woody branchlets, finely pubescent upwards. Leaves ovate, obtuse, irregularly crenate, glabrous, the lower 1–1 1/4 in. long and broad, truncate at the base; petiole nearly as long as the blade. Inflorescence a long terminal raceme; pedicels short; bracts linear, as long as the pedicels. Flower-calyx 1/8– 1/6 in. long, pubescent. Corolla purple; tube 1/3 in. long; lower lip 1/12 in. long. Stamens all four slightly protruded beyond the upper lip of the corolla.
Distribution
Somaliland Nile Land Ahl Mountains, near Maid, 4500 ft., Hildebrandt, 1429!

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 5, page 332, (1900) Author: (by J. G. Baker)
Names
RENSCHIA heterotypica Vatke [family LABIATAE], in Linnæa, xliii. 94. Tinnea heterotypica S. Moore [family LABIATAE], in Journ. Bot. 1877, 69, t. 185, fig. 3.
Information
A much-branched undershrub, 1 1/2–2 ft. high, with pale slender woody branchlets, finely pubescent upwards. Leaves ovate, obtuse, irregularly crenate, glabrous, the lower 1–1 1/4 in. long and broad, truncate at the base; petiole nearly as long as the blade. Inflorescence a long terminal raceme; pedicels short; bracts linear, as long as the pedicels. Flower-calyx 1/8– 1/6 in. long, pubescent. Corolla purple; tube 1/3 in. long; lower lip 1/12 in. long. Stamens all four slightly protruded beyond the upper lip of the corolla.
Distribution
Somaliland Nile Land Ahl Mountains, near Maid, 4500 ft., Hildebrandt, 1429!

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 5, page 332, (1900) Author: (by J. G. Baker)
Names
RENSCHIA heterotypica Vatke [family LABIATAE], in Linnæa, xliii. 94. Tinnea heterotypica S. Moore [family LABIATAE], in Journ. Bot. 1877, 69, t. 185, fig. 3.
Information
A much-branched undershrub, 1 1/2–2 ft. high, with pale slender woody branchlets, finely pubescent upwards. Leaves ovate, obtuse, irregularly crenate, glabrous, the lower 1–1 1/4 in. long and broad, truncate at the base; petiole nearly as long as the blade. Inflorescence a long terminal raceme; pedicels short; bracts linear, as long as the pedicels. Flower-calyx 1/8– 1/6 in. long, pubescent. Corolla purple; tube 1/3 in. long; lower lip 1/12 in. long. Stamens all four slightly protruded beyond the upper lip of the corolla.
Distribution
Somaliland Nile Land Ahl Mountains, near Maid, 4500 ft., Hildebrandt, 1429!
RENSCHIA heterotypica Vatke [family LABIATAE]
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