Leonotis nepetaefolia
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Description
Annual herb, 1-2.5 m.
Leaves membranaceous, oblong-ovate to ovate, 4.5-6(-12) by 3-5(-9.5) cm, acute or abruptly acuminate, base rounded to truncate, abruptly narrowed into the petiole (2-7,5 cm), coarsely crenate serrate, finely pubescent on both surfaces.
Flowers in 2-8 distant, globose, dense verticillasters, 2.5-7 cm Ø, composed of several, vertically deflexed, 2-seriate, many-flowered cincinni.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya present (Singapore present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Banka present, Central and East Java present, Tropical Africa
Native of tropical Africa, naturalized in many parts of the tropics, in Malesia: Sumatra, Banka, Malaya, Singapore, and Java (common in West, more rare in Central and East Java).
Citation
STEEN. 1951: Fl. Scholen Indon.: 338
Hook.f. 1885 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 8
BACK. 1931: Onkr. Suiker.: 553
PRAIN 1907 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 717
Ridl. 1923 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 655
R.BR. 1973: Atlas: t. 525
R.BR. 1848 – In: DC., Prod. 12: 535
BACK. & BAKH. f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 622
BTH. 1830 – In: Wall., Pl. As. Rar. 1: 59
DOCT.V.LEEUWEN 1925: p. 68. – In: Trop. Natuur: f. 1-4
BOLD. 1916: Zakfl.: 108
SAYEEDUD-DIN 1940 – In: J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc.: 795
R.BR. 1834: Lab. Gen. Sp.: 618
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 984