Spreading, erect or subscandent herb or soft shrub
Leaves sometimes ternate, ovate-lanceolate to ovate-elliptic, margin crenate-dentate
Inflorescences terminal, lax panicles; verticils 2-4-flowered; bracts minute, linear-lanceolate; pedicels articulate at top
Calyx subequally 5-toothed; teeth narrow; tube cylindric, becoming globose and fleshy in fruit
Corolla bilabiate, white or cream; tube straight, subcylindric; upper lip short, erect, 3-lobed; lower lip patent
Stamens didynamous, only lower 2 fertile, declinate, arising near throat; upper pair minute, arising in throat, included
Disc produced on one or two sides, one lobe often exceeding ovary
Style exserted, shortly 2-lobed
Fruit subglobose, berry-like; orange-coloured, usually enclosing 2 or 3 nutlets; nutlets ellipsoid-orbicular, compressed
x = 6 (polyploidy)
Nomenclature:
Hoslundia Vahl
Vahl: 212 (1804)
Bentham: 706 (1835)
Bentham: 54 (1848)
Bentham: 1174 (1876)
Briquet: 363 (1897)
Baker: 377 (1900)
Cooke: 297 (1910)
Launert & Schreiber: 13 (1969)
Codd: 183 (1985)
Distribution & Notes:
Global: Monotypic: Hoslundia opposita Vahl is widespread throughout tropical Africa
Southern Africa: N Namibia and Botswana, Northern Province, Mpumalanga, Swaziland and N KwaZulu-Natal
References:
BAKER, J.G. 1900. Verbenaceae, Labiatae. Flora of tropical Africa 5
BENTHAM, G. 1832-1836. Labiatarum genera et species. James Ridgeway and Sons, Piccadilly
BENTHAM, G.1848. Labiatae. In A. de Candolle, Prodromus 12. Victor Masson, Paris
BENTHAM, G. 1876. Labiatae. In G. Bentham & J.D. Hooker, Genera plantarum 2. Lovell Reeve & Co., Covent Garden
BRIQUET, J. 1895-1897. Labiatae. Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien 4,3a
CODD, L.E. 1985. Lamiaceae. Flora of southern Africa 28
COOKE, T. 1910. Labiatae. Flora capensis 5,1
LAUNERT, E. & SCHREIBER, A. 1969. Lamiaceae. Prodromus einer Flora von Südwestafrika 123
VAHL, M. 1804. Hoslundia. Enumeratio plantarum. N. Möller & Sons, Copenhagen
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