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Status: | Native |
Description: |
Shrub or small tree, new growth and leaves densely whitish velvety. Leaves 3-5-foliolate; leaflets elliptic to narrowly obovate, 2-7 cm long, grey-green to silvery-white on both surfaces; petiole 1-3 cm long. Inflorescences axillary, 3-9 cm long, many-flowered. Calyx distinctly and broadly lobed; lobes spreading, 1.5-2.5 mm long. Corolla sweet scented, 7-8 mm long with a white tube and mauve-purple-blue lobes. Fruit an obovoid nut, c. 5 mm long,sharply tipped by the remains of the style, mostly enclosed by the enlarged calyx. |
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Derivation of specific name: | zeyheri: after Carl Zeyher, 1799 - 1858, a German naturalist |
Habitat: | In wooded grassland and on stony hillsides. |
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Worldwide distribution: | Southeastern Botswana and Limpopo, North-West, Gauteng South Africa. |
Botswana distribution: | SE |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Content last updated: | Monday 7 June 2021 |
Literature: |
Fernandes, R. (2005). Lamiaceae (subfamilies: Viticoideae and Ajugoideae) Flora Zambesiaca 8(7) Pages 90 - 91. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 80. Setshogo, M.P. & Venter, F. (2003). Trees of Botswana: names and distribution SABONET Report No. 18 Southern African Botanical Diversity Network, Pretoria Page 101. |
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