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7151.000 Stachytarpheta
Description of the genus
Herbs or shrubs. Leaves opposite or alternate, simple. Inflorescence an elongated terminal bracteate spike. Flowers sessile, crowded, each flower sunk into an hollow in the rhachis. Corolla blue, purple, red or white, funnel- or salver-shaped, 5-lobed. Fertile stamens 2. Ovary 2-locular. Fruit included within the persistent calyx, splitting into 2 mericarps, these shortly beaked, striate on the back and usually pitted near the apex. Derivation of name: from the Greek: stachys, a spike, and tarpheios, thick, referring to the thick spikes of this genus. Worldwide: 65 species, mostly in tropical and warm America; a few in the Old World. Zimbabwe: 4 cultivated taxa. |
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Links to cultivated taxa View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | Content |
| frantzii Pol. | |
| jamaicensis (L.) Vahl | Description, Image |
| mutabilis (Jacq.) Vahl | Description, Image |
| urticifolia Sims |
Other sources of information about Stachytarpheta:
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Flora of Burundi: StachytarphetaFlora of Mozambique: Stachytarpheta
Flora of Mozambique: cultivated Stachytarpheta
Flora of Zambia: Stachytarpheta
Flora of Zimbabwe: Stachytarpheta
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): StachytarphetaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Stachytarpheta
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Stachytarpheta
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Stachytarpheta
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Stachytarpheta
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Stachytarpheta
JSTOR Plant Science: Stachytarpheta
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Stachytarpheta
Plants of the World Online: Stachytarpheta
Tropicos: Stachytarpheta
Wikipedia: Stachytarpheta
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