7151.000 Stachytarpheta Vahl

Description of the genus

Herbs or shrubs. Leaves opposite or alternate, simple. Inflorescence an elongated terminal bracteate spike. Flowers sessile, crowded, each flower sunk into an hollow in the rhachis. Corolla blue, purple, red or white, funnel- or salver-shaped, 5-lobed. Fertile stamens 2. Ovary 2-locular. Fruit included within the persistent calyx, splitting into 2 mericarps, these shortly beaked, striate on the back and usually pitted near the apex.

Derivation of name: from the Greek: stachys, a spike, and tarpheios, thick, referring to the thick spikes of this genus.

Worldwide: 65 species, mostly in tropical and warm America; a few in the Old World.

Zimbabwe: 3 taxa.

Stachytarpheta jamaicensis

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SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
cayennensis (Rich.) VahlEDescription, Image
jamaicensis (L.) VahlEDescription, Image
mutabilis (Jacq.) VahlN,C,EDescription, Image

Other sources of information about Stachytarpheta:

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Flora of Caprivi: cultivated Stachytarpheta
Flora of Mozambique: Stachytarpheta
Flora of Mozambique: cultivated Stachytarpheta
Flora of Zambia: Stachytarpheta
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Stachytarpheta

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Stachytarpheta
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Stachytarpheta
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Stachytarpheta
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Stachytarpheta
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Stachytarpheta
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Stachytarpheta
JSTOR Plant Science: Stachytarpheta
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Stachytarpheta
Plants of the World Online: Stachytarpheta
Tropicos: Stachytarpheta
Wikipedia: Stachytarpheta

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Genus page: Stachytarpheta.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1206, retrieved 19 March 2024

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