Stachys burchelliana Launert

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Lamiaceae > Stachys

Characteristics

Much branched shrub 0.4-1.2 m tall; branches ascending, white stellate-felted to almost floccose. Leaves subsessile; blade lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 25-50 x 5-10 mm, densely grey stellate-felted, often paler, floccose and rugose beneath, apex acute to obtuse, narrowed at the base, margin serrulate-crenulate, often somewhat obscurely. Inflorescence of several 6-10-flowered verticils usually rather close together in the upper leaf axils. Calyx 2-lipped, densely stellate-floccose, 6-7 mm long; upper lip slightly longer than the lower, shortly 3-toothed; lower lip deeply 2-toothed. Corolla yellow; tube 5-6 mm long; upper lip concave, spreading, 4 mm long; lower lip deflexed, 5-6 mm long.
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A herb.
Life form -
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
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Mature height (meter) 0.4 - 1.2
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Environment

It is a subtropical plant.
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Soil humidity 1-3
Soil texture 5-8
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Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible leaves
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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 burchelliana world distribution map, present in Namibia and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:459388-1
WFO ID wfo-0000313806
COL ID 6ZGP7
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Sideritis rugosa Stachys burchelliana Phlomis micrantha Stachys burchellii