Leonotis decadonta Gürke
var. decadonta

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Picture: Bart Wursten
Kaperekeza road, Nyika National Park

Picture: Bart Wursten
Chelinda road, Nyika National Park

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Status:	Native
Description:	More or less sparsely branched large shrub, up to 8 m tall but usually less. Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate, mor rarely elliptic or rhombic, 5-18 cm long, velvety above, more densely greyish hairy beneath; margin crenate-serrate; petiole 2- 40 mm long. Inflorescences of 3-5 hemispherical verticels per branch, 4-33 cm apart. Calyx 12-20 mm long, 10-toothed with teeth 4-6 mm long. Corolla 30-45 mm long, densely orange-scarlet hairy.
Type location:	Malawi
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Derivation of specific name:	: with ten teeth, referring to the calyx.
Habitat:	In upland grassland and at forest margins, along streams and in open miombo woodland.
Altitude range:	1200 - 2300 m
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Worldwide distribution:	Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia.
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca):	E
Zambian distribution (Provinces):	Nw,Mc
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Content last updated:	Monday 5 November 2018
Literature:	Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 184. Dowsett-Lemaire, F. (1989). The flora and phytogeography of the evergreen forests of Malawi. I: Afromontane and mid-altitude forests; Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 59(1/2) Page 28. As Leonotis decadonta Paton, A.J. et al. (2013). Lamiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(8) Pages 69 - 70. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 112.

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