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Rotheca myricoides

Botanic Family

Lamiaceae

Author

(Hochstetter) Steane & Mabberley

Common Names

• Aseme
• Chemogong
• Eishrango
• Ekweru
• Ghria-nash
• Kikonge
• Magari
• Mnindi
• Muguya
• Mzuma
• Obetyot
• Surbatri
• Umbozwa Tree

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Botswana
• Burundi
• Djibouti
• Eritraea
• Ethiopia
• Kenya
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• Rwanda
• Somalia
• Cape Province
• Natal
• Transvaal - South Africa
• Sudan
• Swaziland
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Streamside
• swamp edges. coastal
• savanna
• secondary forest

Flowering Times

• Oct-Jan (Malawi)

Fruiting Times

Scandent to erect foetid shrub or small tree, striate lenticellate branches. Mostly glabrous leaves to 170mm x 75mm with disagreeable odour & serrate margins. Axillary or terminal cymes or terminal panicles to 250mm x 120mm with bracts & bractlets to 7mm long, Flowers foetid or sweet-scented, green or flushed purple calyx to 7mm long with 5 lobes to 5mm long, blue, violet or white corolla to 18mm long with curved tube 8mm long, 4 upper lobes white to pale blue 13mm long, lower lobe blue to deep blue 20mm long. Fruting calyx to 12mm wide, drupe 12mm wide, ripening black.

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Kew
• Exotica