Stemodia serrata (Hochst.) Benth.

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Plantaginaceae > Stemodia

Characteristics

Inflorescence with flowers crowded into leafy spike-like raceme; pedicels about 1 mm. long; bracts 2, to about 3.25 x 0.2 mm., somewhat ciliate, narrowly linear.
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Corolla about 5.5–6.5 mm. long, upper lip emarginate, lower lip trilobed, lobes rounded to somewhat emarginate, yellowish-or greenish-white.
Leaves 15–50 x 6–20 mm., oblong to lanceolate, acute or obtuse, narrowed at base or broader, semi-amplexicaul, coarsely serrate.
Erect, much-branched herb, 15–35 cm. tall, strongly viscid, foetid, glandular-pubescent throughout to varying degrees.
Calyx 4.5–6.5 mm. long, lobes 3.5–5.5 x 0.5–1.2 mm., narrowly linear-lanceolate, acuminate.
Capsule about 5.5 mm. long, narrowly oblong in outline, 4-furrowed.
Ovary 1.5 mm. long, 0.75 mm. in diam., narrowly conical.
Style 1.5 mm. long, somewhat arcuate at apex.
Filaments 2.0–2.8 mm. long, slender.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.15 - 0.35
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Stemodia serrata world distribution map, present in Burundi, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Mauritania, Malawi, Nigeria, Sudan, Senegal, South Sudan, Chad, Tanzania, United Republic of, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:809910-1
WFO ID wfo-0000496072
COL ID 4ZSRR
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Synonyms

Sutera serrata Stemodia serrata Stemodiacra serrata