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Magnoliopsida
Plectranthus L'Hér.
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Subpopulations have been found on Mt Cameroon, the Bakossi Mts and Etinde in Cameroon. Equatorial Guinea subpopulations have been located in Ureka and Moca.
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Found in West Africa: on Mount Cameroon and the Bakossi Mountains in Cameroon, and also known from Equatorial Guinea (2).
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Habitat and Ecology
Systems
- Terrestrial
- Freshwater
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Plectranthus cataractarum inhabits the spray zone of waterfalls, on wet rocks in lowland or submontane evergreen forests (2). Plants have been recorded from sites that are between 300 and 1,450 metres above sea level (2).
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Red List Criteria
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Year Assessed
- Needs updating
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Classified as Vulnerable (VU - A2c, B2ab(ii, iv, v); C2a(i); D2), under IUCN Red List categories (3).
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Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs. Stems herbaceous or woody below, sometimes succulent. Inflorescence paniculate, racemose or subspicate, usually terminal. Flowers in whorls, few-flowered cymes or dichasia, occasionally solitary. Bracts small, clearly differentiated from the leaves. Calyx 2-lipped (the upper lip consisting of a large single tooth, the lower lip of 4 lanceolate-triangular or subulate teeth) or subequally 5-toothed. Corolla 2-lipped, tube usually bent and expanded near the base; upper lip usually 4-lobed, shorter than the boat-shaped lower lip. Stamens 4; filaments free or united at base. Stigma shortly 2-lobed. Nutlets smooth.
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Rights holder/Author | Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings, Flora of Zimbabwe |
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Population Trend
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Chile Central
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Rights holder/Author | Pablo Gutierrez, IABIN |
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Major Threats
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