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Erect or decumbent annual or short-lived perennial herb, up to c. 40 cm. Leaves opposite, sessile or subsessile, oblanceolate-oblong, up to c. 5 × 1 cm, velvety; margin toothed in the upper half to almost entire. Flowers in many closely spaced axillary heads. Calyx up to 7 mm long at flowering time, very asymmetric at the mouth, 10-toothed. Corolla small, up to 6 mm long, white, 2 lipped; upper lip bristly hairy; lower lip 3 mm long, shallowly 2-lobed. |
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Worldwide distribution: | From Egypt and Socotra down the eastern side of Africa to Eswatini and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. |
Botswana distribution: | N,SE |
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Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 37. As Leucas neuflizeana Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 24. As Leucas neuflizeana 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. Paton, A.J. et al. (2013). Lamiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(8) Pages 49 - 50. As Leucas neuflizeana Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 78. as Leucas neuflizeana |
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