Clerodendrum ternatum Schinz

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Clerodendrum ternatum

Photo: Bart Wursten
At crossing Musapa Pequeno, road to Chikukwa

Clerodendrum ternatum

Photo: Bart Wursten
At crossing Musapa Pequeno, road to Chikukwa

Clerodendrum ternatum

Photo: Bart Wursten
At crossing Musapa Pequeno, road to Chikukwa

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Synonyms: Clerodendrum lanceolatum Gürke
Clerodendrum ternatum Schinz var. lanceolatum (Gürke) Moldenke
Common names: Dwarf cat's whiskers (English)
Frequency:
Status: Native
Description:
Suffrutex growing from an extensive rhizomatous woody rootstock. Stems 1-many, up to c. 50 cm tall, unbranched or sparsely branched, woody at the base, covered in short whitish hairs. Leaves with an unpleasant smell when crushed, 3-whorled or opposite, subsessile, narrowly lanceolate to oblanceolate, up to 10 × 2.2 cm, hairy and gland-dotted below; margin with several spaced teeth in the upper half or entire. Flowers in c. 3-flowered axillary clusters, unpleasantly scented, white or creamy-white; corolla tube up to 4.5 cm long, abruptly funnel-shaped at the top; stamens mauve to deep purple, exserted up to 3.5 cm. Fruit deeply 4-lobed, c. 7 × 8 mm, black.
Notes:
Derivation of specific name: ternatum: 3-whorled, referring to the leaves
Habitat: In Brachystegia woodland, dry deciduous woodland and on Kalahari sand, often forming small colonies.
Altitude range: Up to 1480 m
Flowering time:
Worldwide distribution: Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa.
Mozambique distribution: N,Z,T,MS,GI,M
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Content last updated: Thursday 8 December 2011
Literature:

Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 9. As Clerodendrum ternatum ternatum

Da Silva, M.C., Izidine, S. & Amude, A.B. (2004). A preliminary checklist of the vascular plants of Mozambique. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 30 Sabonet, Pretoria Page 77.

Fabian, A. & Germishuizen, G. (1997). Wild Flowers of Northern South Africa. Fernwood Press, Vlaeburg. Pages 340 - 341. under Verbenaceae (Includes a picture).

Fernandes, R. (2005). Lamiaceae (subfamilies: Viticoideae and Ajugoideae) Flora Zambesiaca 8(7) Pages 119 - 121.

Heath, A. & Heath, R. (2009). Field Guide to the Plants of Northern Botswana including the Okavango Delta Kew Publishing Page 393. (Includes a picture).

Kirby, G. (2013). Wild Flowers of Southeast Botswana Struik Nature, Cape Town South Africa Page 95. (Includes a picture).

Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 55.

Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 77.

Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 183.

Verdcourt, B. (1992). Verbenaceae Flora of Tropical East Africa Pages 124 - 125. under Verbenaceae

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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Mozambique: Species information: Clerodendrum ternatum.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=149050, retrieved 6 November 2024

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