Mesosphaerum pectinatum (L.) Kuntze

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Mesosphaerum pectinatum (L.) Kuntze

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Morphological description

Annual or short-lived perennial herb 0.6-2.3 m tall, softly woody at the base. Leaves petiolate; blade ovate to narrowly ovate, 15-45 x 10-30 mm, sparingly pubescent above, paler and usually softly white-tomentose beneath, apex obtuse, base truncate, margin finely and irregularly crenate-dentate; petiole 15-40 mm long. Inflorescence terminal, often branched, usually of horizontal, densely placed flower-clusters (scorpioid cymes), or sometimes lax; cymes usually in pairs from a common peduncle, many-flowered, secund, pectinate (comb-like); bracts leaf-like below, becoming smaller towards the apex; bracteoles linear-filiform, setose, 3 mm long. Calyx 2.5 mm long at flowering, increasing to 5 mm long, densely pubescent in the throat. Corolla whitish to mauve, 3.5 mm long. From: Codd, LEW. 1985. Lamiaceae: 18. Hyptis. In: OA Leistner (ed.). Fl. S. Africa 28(4): 117-120. Botanical Research Institute, Department of Agriculture and Water Supply, Pretoria. [http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/209555#page/9/mode/1up] [CC BY] As: Hyptis pectinata (L.) Poit.

Habitat

Usually on river banks and in moist places. From: Codd, LEW. 1985. Lamiaceae: 18. Hyptis. In: OA Leistner (ed.). Fl. S. Africa 28(4): 117-120. Botanical Research Institute, Department of Agriculture and Water Supply, Pretoria. [http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/209555#page/9/mode/1up] [CC BY] As: Hyptis pectinata (L.) Poit.

Distribution

Indigenous in tropical America; widespread and apparently indigenous in tropical Africa from the Sudan to Senegal and southwards to Botswana, eastern Transvaal, Swaziland and Natal. From: Codd, LEW. 1985. Lamiaceae: 18. Hyptis. In: OA Leistner (ed.). Fl. S. Africa 28(4): 117-120. Botanical Research Institute, Department of Agriculture and Water Supply, Pretoria. [http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/209555#page/9/mode/1up] [CC BY] As: Hyptis pectinata (L.) Poit.

Occurrence records map

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Residence status

Occurrence in the Flora of Southern Africa (FSA) countries and South African provinces. Residence status indicates if a taxon is indigenous, endemic, naturalised or invasive in a specific region. This data is based on specimen records and literature

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