Syncolostemon teucriifolius (Hochst.) D.F. Otieno

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Syncolostemon teucriifolius

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Syncolostemon teucriifolius

Photo: Mark Hyde
SRGH

Syncolostemon teucriifolius

Photo: Mark Hyde
SRGH

Syncolostemon teucriifolius

Photo: Mark Hyde
SRGH

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Synonyms: Hemizygia galpiniana Briq.
Hemizygia teucriifolia (Hochst.) Briq.
Ocimum teucrifolia Hochst.
Orthosiphon teucrifolius (Hochst.) N.E. Br.
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Bushy perennial herb 15-30 cm tall, with few to many erect or ascending annual stems from a woody rootstock. Stems slender, usually simple, greyish stellate-pubescent. Leaves sessile, somwhat leathery, linear to lanceolate-elliptic, 8-18 mm long, blackish above with rough stellate hairs, densely greyish stellate-hairy beneath; margin rolled under, entire. Inflorescence simple, 4-8 cm long; verticils 4-6-flowered. bracts persistent, somewhat leaf-like, up to 6 × 3 mm. Calyx 5-6 mm long, stellate-pubescent. Corolla mauve, 10-12 mm long; tube 9-10 mm long, 2,5 mm wide, slightly constricted at the throat, hairless; lower lip 2 mm long. Stamens shortly exserted, about as long as the lower lip.
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Worldwide distribution: Eastern Zimbabwe and Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Mozambique distribution: MS
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Literature:

Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 31. As Hemizygia teucriifolia

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. As Hemizygia teucriifolia

Paton, A.J. et al. (2013). Lamiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(8) Pages 137 - 139. As Syncolostemon teucrifolius

Siebert, S. & Mössmer, M. (Editors) (2002). SABONET Southern Mozambique Expedition 2001; Provisional Plant Checklist of the Maputo Elephant Reserve (MER) and Licuati Forest Reserve (LFR) SABONET News 7(1) Page 26. As Hemizygia teucriifolia

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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: Syncolostemon teucriifolius.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=150260, retrieved 10 December 2024

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