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Rotheca violacea

Botanic Family

Lamiaceae

Author

(Gürke) Verdcourt

Common Names

• Ishĕ-dùn
• Work is sweet
• Dillko
• Ifonge
• Inaolo a Mbambake
• Mbono ea ngonda

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Congo
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Mozambique
• Nigeria
• Sierra Leone
• Natal - South Africa
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Gallery forest

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Straggling or climbing shrub or large tree with glabrous sparesely dentate leaves to 70mm x 45mm. Violet, violet & white or greenish foetid flowers to 25mm across in axillary or terminal 5-flowered cymes or panicles, red calyx 6mm long, bicoloured corolla of green & blue or mauve, tube 10mm long with lobes 15mm x 8mm. Red fruit.

Further References

• Jstor, The Plant List 2
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Kew