7264.000 Leonotis (Pers.) R.Br.

Description of the genus

Annual or perennial herbs or shrubs to 5 m. Inflorescence composed of 3-11 whorls per shoot, each whorl dense, spherical, axillary, many-flowered; bracts leaf-like; bracteoles linear, spine-tipped. Calyx 8-10-toothed; teeth usually rigid, spine-tipped. Corolla tubular, 2-lipped, white, covered with orange hairs (rarely white); tube with 1-3 transverse fringes of hairs inside; upper lip entire; lower lip 3-lobed. Stamens 4. Nutlets glabrous.

Worldwide: 9 species in tropical Africa, with 1, L. nepetifolia, extending to America and Asia

Malawi: 9 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
decadonta Gürke var. decadonta	N,C,S	Description, Image
decadonta Gürke var. vestita (Briq.) Iwarsson & Y.B.Harv.	N,C
grandis Iwarsson & Y.B.Harv.	N
myricifolia Iwarsson & Y.B.Harv. [NrEnd]	N	Description, Image
myrothamnifolia Iwarsson & Y.B.Harv.	N
nepetifolia (L.) R.Br. var. africana (P.Beauv.) J.K.Morton	N
nepetifolia (L.) W.T. Aiton var. nepetifolia	N,C,S	Description, Image
ocymifolia (Burm. f.) Iwarsson var. ocymifolia	N,C	Description, Image
ocymifolia (Burm. f.) Iwarsson var. raineriana (Vis.) Iwarsson	N,C,S	Description, Image

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Flora of Botswana: Leonotis
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Flora of Zambia: Leonotis
Flora of Zimbabwe: Leonotis
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Leonotis

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