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Leonotis ocymifolia (Burm.f.) Iwarsson
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Perennial semiwoody shrubby herb, 1-5 m tall, often branching from the base, growing from a swollen rootstock. Leaves opposite, petiolate, lanceolate-ovate often more than 6 cm long, velvety to hairy below; margin crenate-dentate. Flowers in 2-5 subspherical inflorescences per branch, up to 9 cm in diameter, separated by an internode up to 65 mm long. Corolla 32-45 mm long, variable in colour from whitish buff to pale salmon-pink or orange to orange-red, different colour forms sometimes found growing together. The corolla has a single fringe of hairs inside at the base of the tube.
Perennial herb,often 1-3(5) m tall, often branching from the base, growing from a swollen rootstock. Leaves opposite, petiolate, broadly ovate to almost round, less than 6 cm long, velvety to hairy below; margin crenate-dentate. Flowers in 1-2 subspherical inflorescences per branch, separated by an internode up to 65 mm long. Corolla 32-45 mm long covered in dull to bright orange hairs with a single fringe of hairs inside at the base of the tube. See L. ocymifolia var. raineriana and L. nepetifolia for comparison.
Angola, DRC, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Swaziland, Lesotho and South Africa.
DRC, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, South Africa.
Common
frequent