Description ⁵

Perennial herb often sprawling, up to 1 m tall. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate, 2-8 cm long, covered in short hairs. Flowers in terminal and axillary clusters, held in glandular hairy bracts; corolla 2-lipped, white to pale pinkish with dark lilac markings.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Mark Hyde, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/15/154290-1.jpg
2. (c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/15/154290-9.jpg
3. (c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/15/154290-10.jpg
4. (c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/15/154290-12.jpg
5. (c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/30288509

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

Range Map

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