Stachys arachnoidea Codd

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Lamiaceae > Stachys

Characteristics

Perennial herb; stems procumbent to subscandent, branched, up to 1 m long, densely and softly white villous. Leaves subsessile to shortly petiolate; blade thin-textured, broadly ovate-deltoid to subrotund, 18-40 x 15-30 mm, discolorous, upper surface greenish to brown and thinly to fairly densely pubescent, under-surface with a dense white web-like tomentum and freely dotted with minute yellowish pustulelike gland-dots, apex obtuse to rounded, base cordate, margin regularly and shallowly crenulate; petiole up to 10 mm long. Inflorescence lax; verticils 2-flowered; bracts leaf-like, subsessile. Calyx densely and softly white tomentose with numerous minute gland-dots, 8-9 mm long. Corolla white with mauve-purple upper lip and speckled lower lip; tube 8-9 mm long; upper lip ascending, concave, 3-4 mm long, lower lip horizontal, 8-9 mm long.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Environment

Light -
Soil humidity 4-6
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Usage

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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 15 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 21
Germination luminosity light
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Distribution

Stachys arachnoidea world distribution map, present in eSwatini and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:459304-1
WFO ID wfo-0000313695
COL ID 4ZFBP
BDTFX ID -
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Synonyms

Stachys arachnoidea