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Synonyms: |
Holmskioldia speciosa Hutch. & Corbishley |
Common names: | Southern chinese-hats (English) |
Description: | Deciduous shrub or small tree to 6 m. Branches usually unarmed but may bear spiny branchlets. Leaves opposite, broadly ovate to subtriangular, up to 5 × 4 cm (smaller than tettensis), softly hairy on both surfaces with minute sessile glands beneath; coarsely serrate-dentate to lobed. Flowers in 1-3-flowered axillary cymes. Calyx mauve or pale green suffused with purple, 11-20 mm in diameter; limb shallowly 5-lobed. Corolla blue, violet, purple to mauve, lilac or white; labellum of the lower lip 2-lobed, not laciniate. Anthers up to 4 cm long, densely covered in gland-tipped hairs near the base. Fruit c. 7 mm long, obconical, flat on the top with 4 horn-like appendages arranged in the shape of a cross the appendages without crests. |
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Derivation of specific name: | speciosa: showy, good-looking |
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Worldwide distribution: | Mozambique (Maputo province), Eswatini and South Africa; cultivated in gardens elsewhere |
Growth form(s): | Tree, shrub over 2 m. |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Literature: |
Bandeira, S., Bolnick, D. & Barbosa, F. (2007). Wild Flowers of Southern Mozambique Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique Pages 176 - 177. (Includes a picture). Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 852. (Includes a picture). Fernandes, R. (2005). Lamiaceae (subfamilies: Viticoideae and Ajugoideae) Flora Zambesiaca 8(7) Pages 151 - 152. |
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