7185.000 Premna L.

Paton, A.J. et al. (2013) Lamiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(8) 1-346

Description of the genus

Trees, shrubs, climbers or subshrubs, glabrous to densely hairy. Leaves petiolate, opposite or 3–4-whorled, simple, entire or dentate, often with minute spherical glands, aromatic when crushed. Inflorescences terminal, usually many-flowered, with flowers in cymes corymbosely, racemosely or paniculately arranged, rarely the inflorescences axillary. Flowers small and dull-coloured; calyx usually actinomorphic, truncate to 3–5-dentate or 2–5-lobed, or sometimes c. 2-lipped; corolla tube short, infundibuliform or cylindric, villous or with a ring of hairs; limb 2-lipped, with the posterior lip 2-fid or emarginate and the anterior 3-fid or 3-partite, with the lobes subequal or the median one the largest. Fruit drupaceous, small, with a thin fleshy mesocarp and bony endocarp; calycine cup persistent, often venose. Seeds oblong, without endosperm.

Worldwide: c. 200 species in tropical and warm regions of the Old World

Zimbabwe: 1 taxon.

Insects associated with this genus:
Botyodes asialis Larval foodplant
Premna senensis

Links to taxa:     View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
senensis KlotzschN,W,CDescription, Image

Other sources of information about Premna:

Our websites:

Flora of Botswana: Premna
Flora of Burundi: Premna
Flora of Caprivi: Premna
Flora of Malawi: Premna
Flora of Mozambique: Premna
Flora of Zambia: Premna

External websites:

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

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: Premna.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1209, retrieved 13 October 2024

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