Clerodendrum incisum Klotzsch

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Clerodendrum incisum

Photo: Mark Hyde
Road to sawmill, Via Entrada, Catapu

Clerodendrum incisum

Photo: Mark Hyde
Road to sawmill, Via Entrada, Catapu

Clerodendrum incisum

Photo: Mark Hyde
Road to sawmill, Via Entrada, Catapu

Clerodendrum incisum

Photo: Mark Hyde
Road to sawmill, Via Entrada, Catapu

Clerodendrum incisum

Photo: Mark Hyde
Road to sawmill, Via Entrada, Catapu

Clerodendrum incisum

Photo: Bart Wursten
Zebra Camp, northwestern Gorongosa National Park.

Clerodendrum incisum

Photo: Bart Wursten
Zebra Camp, northwestern Gorongosa National Park.

Clerodendrum incisum

Photo: Bart Wursten
Zebra Camp, northwestern Gorongosa National Park.

Clerodendrum incisum

Photo: Bart Wursten
Zebra Camp, northwestern Gorongosa National Park.

Clerodendrum incisum

Photo: Bart Wursten
Zebra Camp, northwestern Gorongosa National Park.

Clerodendrum incisum

Photo: Bart Wursten
Zebra Camp, northwestern Gorongosa National Park.

Clerodendrum incisum

Photo: Bart Wursten
Along entrance road to Zebra Ranger Camp, northwestern Gorongosa National Park.

Clerodendrum incisum

Photo: Bart Wursten
Swanepoel Concession, Cheringoma

Clerodendrum incisum

Photo: Bart Wursten
Swanepoel Concession, Cheringoma

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Synonyms: Clerodendrum amplifolium sensu Moldenke non S. Moore
Clerodendrum incisum Klotzsch var. macrosiphon (Hook. f.) Baker
Clerodendrum incisum Klotzsch var. vinosum Chiov.
Clerodendrum incisum Klotzsch var. longipedunculatum B. Thomas
Clerodendrum macrosiphon Hook f.
Rotheca incisa (Klotzsch) Steane & Mabb.
Common names: Do-re-mi flower (English)
Frequency:
Status: Native
Description:
Suffrutex or sometimes a shrub up to 1.6 m, rarely taller, mostly with simple or sparsely branched rect stems. Leaves opposite or 3-whorled, 2-20 cm long, elliptic to lanceolate, long attenuate towards the base, tapering into a subpetiole, usually slightly discolorous, shortly pubescent about,more densely so beneath; margin usually with 1-7 large, almost lobe-like, triangular teeth at each side. Inflorescences terminal, condensed, 5-18-flowered; bracts 2-3 mm long, narrowly triangular. Corolla white with an erect tube, 5-11.3 cm long; lobes oblong 8-15 mm long. Style purple and white; anthers purple. Fruit depressed globose, c. 9 mm in diameter, 3-4-lobed, hairless.
Notes: The unusually large fruit in the image above have been galled.
Derivation of specific name:
Habitat: In understorey of well-developed Brachystegia woodland, evergreen forest and dense coastal dune thickets.
Altitude range: 5 - 1000 m
Flowering time:
Worldwide distribution: Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, just entering eastern Zimbabwe.
Mozambique distribution: N,Z,MS,GI
Growth form(s):
Endemic status:
Red data list status:
Insects associated with this species:
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Content last updated: Sunday 22 October 2017
Literature:

Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 848. As Rotheca microphylla (Includes a picture).

Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 14.

Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 272.

Fernandes, R. (2005). Lamiaceae (subfamilies: Viticoideae and Ajugoideae) Flora Zambesiaca 8(7) Pages 122 - 123.

Golding, J.S. (ed.) (2002). Zimbabwe Plant Red Data List. Southern African Plant Red Data Lists. SABONET 14 Page 169. Under Verbenaceae

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 56. As Rotheca incisa

Verdcourt, B. (1992). Verbenaceae Flora of Tropical East Africa Pages 122 - 124. Under Verbenaceae (Includes a picture).

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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 incisum.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=149080, retrieved 10 October 2024

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