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Vitex camporum Büttn. Vitex hockii De Wild. Vitex madiensis Oliv. var. gossweileri W. Piep. Vitex simplicifolia Oliv. |
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Shrub or small tree 3–8 m tall, or a suffrutex 0.3–1.5 m tall with annual stems from a massive underground woody rootstock. Bark fissured, dark red-brown; young stems shortly hairy with reddish-brown buds. Leaves aromatic when crushed, often 3-whorled, 1-3-foliolate (in this taxon), often drying yellow-green; leaflets 6–17 × 4–9 cm, median leaflet largest, broadly-obovate, thickly leathery, roughly hairy or hairless above, pubescent on the conspicuously raised veins beneath; margin usually entire or sometimes coarsely shallowly crenate in upper half, often wavy; petioles 7–16 cm long, grooved. Inflorescences axillary, slightly aromatic when crushed, 5–19(30) cm long, covered with stiff cream-coloured hairs. Calyx deep purplish-violet, obconical, 5-toothed, gland-dotted, hairy. Corolla 8–12 mm long, gland-dotted, hairy; tube greenish-cream or greenish-mauve, 4.5–6.5 mm long, curved; lobes dull pale mauve to lilac-violet or brilliant purple sometimes creamy with mauve or greenish marks. Stamen filaments with glandular hairs. Drupe ellipsoid, 2 cm long, rounded at the apex, the base not enclosed by the enlarged calyx, purplish-black at maturity. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Gambia, Senegal, Mali to northern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, CAR, DRC, Angola, Sudan, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
| Growth form(s): | Tree, shrub over 2 m. |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Coates Palgrave, K. (revised and updated by Meg Coates Palgrave) (2002). Trees of Southern Africa 3rd edition. Struik, South Africa Page 983. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 272. Fernandes, R. (2005). Lamiaceae (subfamilies: Viticoideae and Ajugoideae) Flora Zambesiaca 8(7) Pages 83 - 84. 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 57. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 71. as Vitex madiensis |
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