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Plectranthus ecklonii Benth.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Benth.
Benth.
1848
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Plectranthus ecklonii Benth.
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Plectranthus ecklonii

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ecklonii

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Plectranthus ecklonii Benth.

Erect shrub to nearly 3 m high with stems densely puberulent at first. Petioles to c. 6 cm long, purplish. Lamina 6-17 × 2.5-8 cm, ovate or elliptic-ovate, puberulent, densely so on veins above and generally below, dotted with red or dark red glands on both sides (more obvious when dry), irregularly dentate-serrate; base narrow-cuneate; apex acute. Infl. a loose, erect panicle to c. 30 cm tall, purple, with 2-3 pairs of branches; lower bracts mostly c. 1 cm long, broad-ovate or oblong, dotted with red glands. Pedicels slender, > calyx, almost glabrous or glandular-puberulent. Calyx teeth 3-5 mm long, accrescent, ciliate, dotted with glands; upper tooth ovate, obtuse; lower 4 teeth lanceolate-subulate. Corolla purplish, violet or bluish violet; tube (1)-1.3-1.5 cm long, narrow, glandular-puberulent outside, gradually widening to apex; upper lip ± erect, c. 5 mm long, with 2 rounded lobes; lower lip boat-shaped, horizontal to deflexed. Stamens free at base, the longer lower pair c. 1.5 cm long, becoming exserted. Style 2-2.5 cm long, long-exserted. Nutlets c. 2 mm long, broad-oblong, brown.

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Plectranthus ecklonii Benth.
Plectranthus ecklonii Benth.
Plectranthus ecklonii Benth.
Plectranthus ecklonii Benth.
Plectranthus ecklonii Benth.
Plectranthus ecklonii Benth.
Plectranthus ecklonii Benth.
Plectranthus ecklonii Benth.
Plectranthus ecklonii Benth.
Plectranthus ecklonii Benth.
Plectranthus ecklonii Benth.

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2033e437-d3c8-4318-9df5-a5c89c9b8c88
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
9 September 2019
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