e-Key v3 - Neohyptis
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Lamiaceae - Nepetoideae - Ocimeae - Plectranthinae - Neohyptis J.K.Morton

Description :

  • Annual, sparingly branched herbs; stems erect or decumbent, quadrangular
  • Leaves sessile, obscurely crenate
  • Inflorescences terminal or in axils of leaves of upper half of stem, short with verticils densely crowded; bracts persistent
  • Calyx tubular-campanulate, slightly ventricose when mature, equally 5-toothed; teeth lanceolate, acute
  • Corolla bilabiate; tube straight; upper lip erect, 4-lobed; lower lip concave, spreading
  • Stamens 4, didynamous, declinate, not exceeding lower corolla lip; filaments fused in pairs towards base, arising in throat
  • Nutlets small, glabrous

Nomenclature:

  • Neohyptis J.K.Morton
    • Morton: 272 (1962)
    • Codd: 135 (1985)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global : Monotypic: Neohyptis paniculata (Baker) J.K.Morton is known from Angola and Zambia to west tropical Africa
  • Southern Africa : Only in N Botswana

References:

  • CODD, L.E. 1985. Lamiaceae . Flora of southern Africa 28
  • MORTON, J.K. 1962. Cytotaxonomic studies on the West African Labiatae . Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 58