Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants
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7211.000 Ajuga
Description of the genus
Annual or perennial herbs. Flowers bisexual, in 2-many-flowered verticils, (in ours) arranged compactly to form an uninterrupted terminal spike. Calyx of 5 subequal lobes; not 2-lipped. Corolla 2-lipped; upper lip obsolete, very short; lower lip conspicuous and 3-lobed; tube exserted from the calyx. Perfect stamens 4. Filaments not basally connate. Ovary shallowly 4-lobed. Nutlets reticulate. Derivation of name: not yoked, referring to calyx not being 2-lipped. Worldwide: c. 50 species in the Old World, mostly in temperate regions but also lowland Malesia. Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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