Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs; stems and leaves often fleshy
Leaves subentire
Inflorescences usually terminal, paniculate; flowers small, placed singly or in pairs in lax or dense spikes or racemes; bracts small
Calyx small and shortly 5-toothed at flowering, elongate and often becoming truncate at maturity, eventually circumscissile near base
Corolla bilabiate; tube narrowly cylindrical at base, widening upwards, straight or curved; upper lip obscurely 4-lobed, lower lip larger, concave, entire or toothed near apex
Stamens didynamous, arising in corolla mouth, declinate, usually lying in lower corolla lip; filaments free; anthers confluent, 1-thecous
Style shortly 2-fid, exserted beyond stamens
Nutlets orbicular or ovoid, flattened, smooth
x = 9 (17) (1 report each)
Nomenclature:
Aeollanthus Mart. ex Spreng.
Sprengel: 678 (1825)
Launert & Schreiber: 7 (1969)
Codd: 121 (1985)
Distribution & Notes:
Global: Species 43, in tropical and warm regions of Africa
Southern Africa: Species 6, found in northern parts of Namibia and Botswana and eastern regions of Northern Province, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Swaziland, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape
References:
CODD, L.E. 1985. Lamiaceae. Flora of southern Africa 28
LAUNERT, E. & SCHREIBER, A. 1969. Lamiaceae. Prodromus einer Flora von Südwestafrika 123
SPRENGEL, K.P.J. 1825. Labiatae. Caroli Linnaei.....Systema vegetabilium. Göttingen
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