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Clerodendrum capitatum
Clerodendrum capitatum
- Botanic Family
- Lamiaceae
- Author
- (Willdenow) Schumacher & Thonning
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Angola
- Benin
- Burkino
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Congo
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea Bissau
- Ivory Coast
- Kenya
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mozambique
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Uganda
- Zaire
- Zambia
Natural Habitats
- Forest
- riverside
- montane areas
- gallery forest
- tropical rain forest
- thickets
- disturbed areas
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Lianescent shrub to 6m, erect shrub or tree with pubescent branchlets, spiny & twining, hollow ridged stems, spines to 15mm x 2mm with holes made by ants, tetragonal puberulent branches. Hairy leaves or glabrous above pubescent beneath to 300mm x 120mm. Terminal many-flowered panicles to 230mm diameter with pubescent maroon bracts to 27mm x 3mm, of very fragrant cream flowers, hairy green 5-parted calyx to 20mmx 10mm, segments 12mm x 7mm, greenish-white to pale pink corolla to 125mm long, pubescent tube to 120mm long, 5 lobes to 15mm x 7mm. Shiny black bilobed drupe with persistent wine-red calyx.
Further References
- Mobot
- FCP
- The Plant List 2
- FOTA
- Gleason & Moldenke
- Kew
- Talbot