Clerodendrum toxicarium Baker

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Lamiaceae > Clerodendrum

Characteristics

Inflorescence terminal on the stems and lateral branches, paniculate, subpyramidal or corymbose, formed by many-flowered cymes in 3(4)-whorls at the upper 3–8 nodes on peduncles up to 4 cm long, usually also with inflorescences in leaf axils of the 2–8 nodes below these and together forming a large leafy inflorescence up to 27 cm long and 24 cm wide; the axillary inflorescences subpyramidal and equalling or longer than the subtending leaf, on divaricate straight or slightly arched nude peduncles up to 9 cm long; pedicles up to 11 mm long; bracts filiform, shorter than the pedicels; peduncles and pedicels shortly puberulous as on the petioles and young branches.
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Leaves usually ternate, rarely opposite, petiolate; lamina 6–19.5 × 3.2–10 cm, usually shorter than twice the width, widest about the middle, elliptic to broadly elliptic, elliptic-obovate or ovate, acuminate at the apex, rounded or broadly cuneate at the base, entire or sometimes ± irregularly dentate, sparsely setose-glabrous or sparsely puberulous above and more densely so beneath particularly on the nerves; petiole 1.2–5 cm long, slender.
A subshrub with herbaceous stems to c. 1 m tall, or a scandent shrub to c. 2(9.5) m; herbaceous stems and young shoots longitudinally 4–6-ridged, sparsely pubescent with short crisped antrorse hairs; older stems becoming woody, arching and scandent with petiole bases persisting as short woody obliquely truncate projections, glabrescent, bark grey and lenticellate, lateral branches up to 30 cm long.
Calyx green, 2.5–4.5 mm long, subcampanulate, shortly appressed hairy; lobes 1–2 mm long, triangular, acute.
Corolla white; tube 9.5–14 mm long, narrowly cylindrical, glabrous.
Fruit 7 mm long.
Life form perennial
Growth form
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.0
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Nitrogen fixer -
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Environment

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Usage

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Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

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

Clerodendrum toxicarium world distribution map, present in Mozambique

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:862445-1
WFO ID wfo-0000887217
COL ID W47K
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Clerodendrum toxicarium Clerodendrum kirkii