PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / LAMIALES / LAMIACEAE / NEPETOIDEAE / OCIMEAE / ORTHOSIPHON / FRUTICOSUS

Orthosiphon fruticosus Codd
LC Indigenous Endemic
Morphological description

Twiggy shrub 0.5-1.2 m tall; young stems tomentulose, glabrescent; bark on old stems often splitting off in thin strips. Leaves shortly petiolate, often fasciculate on short shoots; blade coriaceous, lanceolate to oblanceolate, 8-18 x 2.5-6 mm, canescent, lower surface reticulate, gland-dotted, apex acute, base cuneate, margin entire; petiole 1-2 mm long. Inflorescence simple, 40-90 mm long; verticils 2-4-flowered, 10-15 mm apart; rhachis glandular-puberulous; bracts ovate to lanceolate, 2-4 mm long. Calyx 7-9 mm long at fruiting stage. Corolla purple, gland-dotted; tube 7-8 mm long, straight; upper lip erect, 5-6 mm long; lower lip concave, 6 mm long. Stamens exserted from the throat by 2 mm; upper 2 filaments attached 1.5 mm from the throat, glabrous. Stigma minutely bilobed. From: Codd, LEW. 1985. Lamiaceae: 36. Orthosiphon. In: OA Leistner (ed.). Fl. S. Africa 28(4): 229-236. Botanical Research Institute, Department of Agriculture and Water Supply, Pretoria. [http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/209555#page/9/mode/1up] [CC BY]

Diagnostic description

The small leathery leaves and twiggy habit are reminiscent of O. tubiformis, which has a very much longer corolla tube and in which the stamens are attached near the base of the corolla tube. From: Codd, LEW. 1985. Lamiaceae: 36. Orthosiphon. In: OA Leistner (ed.). Fl. S. Africa 28(4): 229-236. Botanical Research Institute, Department of Agriculture and Water Supply, Pretoria. [http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/209555#page/9/mode/1up] [CC BY]

Habitat

Grows in dry bushveld on stony slopes. From: Codd, LEW. 1985. Lamiaceae: 36. Orthosiphon. In: OA Leistner (ed.). Fl. S. Africa 28(4): 229-236. Botanical Research Institute, Department of Agriculture and Water Supply, Pretoria. [http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/209555#page/9/mode/1up] [CC BY]

Distribution

From Loskop Dam to Steelpoort Valley. From: Codd, LEW. 1985. Lamiaceae: 36. Orthosiphon. In: OA Leistner (ed.). Fl. S. Africa 28(4): 229-236. Botanical Research Institute, Department of Agriculture and Water Supply, Pretoria. [http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/209555#page/9/mode/1up] [CC BY]

Altitude

304 to 1280 m

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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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Names and Sources

Accepted name
Orthosiphon fruticosus Codd
Synonym(s)

Classification

KINGDOM Plantae

SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae

PHYLUM Anthophyta

ORDER Lamiales

FAMILY Lamiaceae

SUBFAMILY Nepetoideae

TRIBE Ocimeae

GENUS Orthosiphon

SPECIES fruticosus

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Barcode: PRE0138213-0 Collector(s) & number: Codd, LEW, 9777B | 1957-10-14

South Africa, Mpumalanga, LYDENBURG DIST.

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Barcode: PRE0568730-0 Collector(s) & number: Meyer, JJ, 3030 | 2000-10-12

South Africa, Mpumalanga, On road to Sekhukhune, North West of Maartenshoop.

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Barcode: PRE0235473-0 Collector(s) & number: Acocks, JPH, 20952 | 1959-11-22

South Africa, Limpopo, LYDENBURG DIST.; 21.8 MI. N. OF SCHOONOORD

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Barcode: PRE0899094-0 Collector(s) & number: Hoare, DB, DBH10030803/02 | 2008-3-10

South Africa, Limpopo, South of Steelpoort. On the farm Thorncliffe 374 KT.

General notes: Wooded grassland on rocky slope. Shrub approx. 1 m tall.

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Barcode: PRE0589702-0 Collector(s) & number: Codd, LEW, 9777 | 1957-10-14

South Africa, Mpumalanga, LYDENBURG DIST.; STEELPOORT STA.; 6.5 MI. SW. OF STEELPOORT STA.

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Barcode: PRE0138216-0 Collector(s) & number: Codd, LEW, 9843 | 1958-3-11

South Africa, Mpumalanga, GROBLERSDAL DIST.; MOSSIESDAL; 7 MI. W. OF MOSSIESDAL

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Barcode: PRE0359032-0 Collector(s) & number: Cole, MM, 76 | 1973-1-18

South Africa, Mpumalanga, LOSKOP DAM NAT. RES.; ROODEWAL FARM

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Barcode: PRE0860296-0 Collector(s) & number: McMurtry, DM, 12398 | 2005-3-16

South Africa, Mpumalanga, South-West of Steelpoort. Road south to Maartenshoop. Near the Tweefontein Chrome Mine.

General notes: Growing on east slope of a dry stony koppie in sparse grassveld. Somewhat woody shrublet ± 900 mm tall.

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Barcode: PRE0138218-0 Collector(s) & number: Theron, GK, 1044 | 1967-1-10

South Africa, Mpumalanga, LOSKOP DAM; LINKS VAN PAD NA KRUIN NET NA AFDRAAI VAN HOOFPAD

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Barcode: PRE0725712-0 Collector(s) & number: Krynauw, S, 1144 | 1986-2-18

South Africa, Mpumalanga, DE GROOTEBOOM FARM; 373 KT

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Barcode: PRE0138214-0 Collector(s) & number: Codd, LEW, 9777 | 1957-10-14

South Africa, Mpumalanga, LYDENBURG DIST.; STEELPOORT STA.; 6.5 MI. SW. OF STEELPOORT STA.

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Barcode: PRE0590714-0 Collector(s) & number: Codd, LEW, 9777 | 1957-10-14

South Africa, Mpumalanga, LYDENBURG DIST.; STEELPOORT STA.; 6.5 MI. SW. OF STEELPOORT STA.

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Barcode: PRE0812041-0 Collector(s) & number: Venter, S, 12,422 | 1987-1-25

South Africa, Limpopo, Lebowa: Burgersfort Area; Driekop Farm 253.

General notes: Open low deciduous shrubland. Vitex veld. Rocky. Full sun. Brown clay loam soil. Aspect: N. Slope: 5? - 30?. Shrublet 20 cm tall. Aromatic, erect-stemmed. Leaves grey-green. Flowers pink with dark pink lines on lip. Rare. Ex Herbarium, University of the North, Lebowa

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Barcode: PRE0138217-0 Collector(s) & number: Codd, LEW, 8797 | 1954-6-10

South Africa, Mpumalanga, LYDENBURG DIST.; MAARTENSHOOP; 7.5 MI. NW. OF MAARTENSHOOP POSTOFFICE

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Barcode: PRE0611188-0 Collector(s) & number: Kluge, JP, 2372 | 1981-1-26

South Africa, Limpopo, STEELPOORT; STEELPOORTRIVIER; EERSTEGELUK NET VAN STEELPOORT

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Limpopo, South Africa

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1985

FLORA CHAPTER

Lamiaceae: 36. Orthosiphon Codd, LEW

In: OA Leistner (ed.). Flora of Southern Africa 28(4)229-236

Botanical Research Institute, Department of Agriculture and Water Supply, Pretoria

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Bibliography

JOURNAL ARTICLE
Samways, M.J. 2006. National Red List of South African Odonata. Odonatologica. 35:341-368

JOURNAL ARTICLE
Longfield, C. 1959. The Odonata of North Angola. Part II. Publicações Culturais Companhia de Diamantes de Angola. 45:13–42

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