Clerodendrum abilioi R.Fern.

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Lamiaceae > Clerodendrum

Characteristics

Leaves opposite or subopposite, shortly petiolate; lamina usually small, 1.1–6.7(7.2) × 0.7–3.2(4) cm, obovate or suborbicular, sometimes the pair at the same node very unequal, obtuse or rounded and acuminate-mucronate at the apex, broadly cuneate at the base, entire, somewhat rigid (but not coriaceous) on drying, sparsely and appressed-hairy above and on the nervation beneath; midrib and lateral nerves slightly impressed above, raised beneath, the reticulation raised beneath; petiole 0.2–0.7 cm long, 6–12-times shorter than the lamina, slender, pubescent with whitish appressed antrorse hairs.
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Calyx 17–21 mm long; tube obconical, slightly constricted above the ovary, sparsely hairy; lobes 4–6 mm wide at the base, erect, lanceolate, very attenuate to nearly filiform at the apex, sparsely hairy, ciliate with a few short cilia, nerves slightly raised.
Older stems erect, obscurely 4-angled, without leaves, glabrous with bark white, transversally fissured and somewhat lenticellate; old petiole-bases persistent and spine-like up to 8 mm long, patent, straight, also with white bark.
Branchlets leafy, 4–25 cm long, erect or spreading, slender, brownish, sparsely pubescent with short whitish antrorse hairs, sparser towards the base; internodes shorter than the leaves.
Corolla white; tube 4.5–5.5 cm long, slender, somewhat densely glandular hairy; head of buds ellipsoid, densely glandular hairy.
Inflorescences terminal on the branchlets, subcapitate, few–many-flowered, surrounded by the uppermost leaves.
A suffrutex with stout stems to c. 1 m tall.
Life form perennial
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.0
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 21 - 60
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 23
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Distribution

Clerodendrum abilioi world distribution map, present in Mozambique

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1013876-1
WFO ID wfo-0000626755
COL ID W3L2
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Synonyms

Clerodendrum abilioi