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Leistner, O.A. (ed.) (2000) Seed plants of southern Africa: families and genera Strelitzia 10
Perennial pubescent herbs or sub-shrubs with a woody base, stem and branches faintly 4-angled towards the apex. Leaves sessile or petiolate, oblong-lanceolate to broadly ovate. Inflorescences dense terminal racemes with pedicellate flowers in 3-6 flowered verticils; bracts ovate, persistent. Calyx densely pubescent, 2 lipped, 3 lobed. Corolla bilabiate, outside densely pubescent; tube short, widening abruptly into an oblique dilated throat; upper lip much shorter than lower; lower lip large, oblong. Disc entire or shortly lobed. Fruit composed of nutlets. Worldwide: 3 species in southern and tropical Africa. Burundi: 2 taxa. |
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| clerodendroides (T.C.E.Fr.) B.Mathew | ||
| cylindricalyx (Mathew) Mathew |
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