Description:
Annual herbs, sparingly branched; stems erect or decumbent, quadrangular. Leaves sessile, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, apex subacute, base obtuse, margin obscurely crenate, glabrous above, hispidulous on nerves beneath. Inflorescence of short, dense, spike-like racemes borne terminally and in axils of leaves in upper half of stem; bracts persistent. Calyx tubular-campanulate, slightly ventricose when mature, equally 5-toothed; teeth lanceolate, acute. Corolla 2-lipped; tube straight; upper lip erect, 4-lobed; lower lip concave, spreading. Stamens 4, didynamous, declinate, not exceeding lower corolla lip; filaments fused in pairs towards base, arising in throat. Nutlets small, glabrous.
Distribution:
Monotypic genus: Neohyptis paniculata (Baker) J.K.Morton, (= Geniosporum paniculatum Baker), trop. Africa; sthn trop. Afr.: Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and sthn Afr. Paton (pers. com.) suggests that Neohyptis should be placed under Plectranthus.
Source:
SSTA
Classification:
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