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Published In: Enumeratio Plantarum . . . 1: 208. 1804. (Enum. Pl.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Type: Type: Described from French Guiana, Le Blond (G).
Distribution: Distribution: A native of Tropical America.
Comment/Acknowledgements: Sometimes cultivated in gardens of Karachi as an ornamental.
Photo: Stachytarpheta cayennensis (Rich.) Vahl (Photo)
Map Location: G-4 Karachi University campus, cultivated in front of Pharmacy Dept., 24.11.65, Saida Qureshi s.n. (KUH).

 

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Small shrub, 1-2.5 m tall, with subcylindrical, glabrous branches. Leaves opposite-decussate, ovate to elliptic, 3-6 cm long, 1.5-2.5 cm broad, serrate, cuneate, scabrous, shortly petiolate; petiole 1-1.5 cm long. Spikes elongated, up to 25 cm long, slender, glabrescent or sparsely pubescent. Flowers blue with whitish centre, c. 5 mm across, bracteate with linear-lanceolate acuminate bracts. Calyx-tube 4-5 mm long, 4-toothed, glabrous. Corolla-tube as long or slightly exceeding the calyx; limb 4-5-lobed, with lobes 1.5-2 mm long. Fruit with persistent style, splitting into two, 1-seeded pyrenes.
 
 
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