Isodictyophorus

Briq.
Description: 
Erect subshrubs; stems quadrangular, whitish-woolly when young. Leaves opposite, petiolate, lanceolate, crenulate, glabrous above, pubescent and glandular-punctate beneath. Inflorescences terminal panicles or racemes; pedicels slender, crowded at nodes, often branched. Calyx with all teeth +/- equal, triangular and 3-nerved, +/- as long as tube; mature calyx broadly campanulate, +/- regular. Corolla 2-lipped; lower lip boat-shaped, very broad, with 2 small lateral lobes, upper lip usually 4-lobed, shorter than lower one. Stamens 4, declinate, arising at corolla mouth; anther synthecate. Style lying with stamens in lower lip of corolla; stigma shortly 2-lobed. Nutlets ovoid or oblong, smooth.
Distribution: 
Species 3, tropical W Africa and Madagascar; sthn trop. Afr. 1: Isodictyophorus reticulatus (A.Chev.) J.K.Morton. Paton (pers. com.) suggests that Isodictyophorus should be placed under Plectranthus.
Source: 
SSTA
Classification: 

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