Acrotome fleckii
| Family: | Lamiaceae |
| Full name: | Acrotome fleckii (Gürke) Launert |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | Namib acrotome |
| Synonym(s): | Acrotome belckii Gürke Leucas fleckii Gürke |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Einjähriges Kraut, bis 40 cm hoch. Pflanzen im Gegensatz zu A. pallescens mit mehrzelligen, bis 1 mm langen Haaren besetzt. Blüten weiß, zweilippig. Annual herb, up to 40 cm high. In contrast to A. pallescens, plants have multicellular hairs up to 1 mm long. Flowers white, double-lipped. (translated using Google Translate) Annual erect herb 0.1-0.6 (-0.8) m tall, unbranched or branched shortly above the base; stems shortly retrorse and somewhat crisped tomentose. Leaves subsessile or shortly petiolate; blade linear to linear-lanceolate, 25-70 x 5-10 mm, sparingly to fairly densely pilose, apex subacute, base attenuate, margin with a few small teeth in the upper half. Inflorescence of (3-) 4-10 spaced verticils, often starting near the base of the plant; verticils dense, few- to many-flowered, 10-22 mm in diam.; bracteoles numerous, filiform, arcuate-erect, villous, 5-8 mm long, spine-tipped. Calyx hispid, widest at the oblique mouth, 5 mm long at flowering, enlarging to 8-10 mm, subequally 8-10-toothed; teeth deltoid-subulate to filiform, spine-tipped, eventually 3-4 mm long. Corolla small, white; upper lip oblong, 2.5-3 mm long; lower lip 4-5 mm long. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora of Southern Africa) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Photographer: | AA Dreyer |
| Date of photograph: | 21 Dec 2008 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | PowerShot A700 |
| Lens aperture: | f/4.0 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/1250 s |
| ISO speed: | - |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
