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Subfamily
VII. Subfam. Nepetoideae (Dumort.) Luerss. (1882).
VII. 3. Tribe Ocimeae Dumort. (1829).
VII. 3. E. Subtribe Plectranthinae Endlicher (1838).
Description
Shrubs,?aromatic; leaves simple, opposite, falling before flowering, inflorescence thyrsoid with cymes sessile, bracteate, ebracteolate, 1-flowered; bracts soon deciduous, not coloured, inconspicuous; bracteoles absent; calyx ± actinomorphic, funnel-shaped, straight, calyx teeth 5, lobes ± equal in flower, lanceolate; throat open, glabrous; corolla strongly two-lipped, 5-lobed (4/1), purple, posterior lip 4-lobed with median lobes ascending, lateral lobes held between the median lobes and the anterior lip, anterior lip deflexed or horizontal, slightly concave or flat; tube basally geniculate and saccate, dilating slightly distally, glabrous within; stamens 4, held just beyond throat, attached near throat; stigma with short subulate or flattened lobes; disc 4-lobed with anterior lobe larger, nutlets oblong, trigonous, apically winged. One species, M. magenteum Hedge, endemic to Madagascar, in shade in dry woodland.Distribution
Native to:
29 Western Indian Ocean
Publication
Madlabium Hedge in Hedge, Clement, Paton & Phillipson, Flore de Madagascar et des Comores 175: 260-263 (1998).
Image resource
© Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew