Acrotome

Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs. Inflorescence of few-many-flowered, often subspherical, whorls; bracts leaf-like; bracteoles linear, often bristle-like. Calyx tubular, 10-11-nerved, with 5-11 equal or unequal teeth. Corolla 2-lipped, white; upper lip shorter than the lower; lower lip 3-lobed, the middle lobe longest. Stamens 4, included in the corolla tube and held together by intertwining hairs.

Similar to the genus Leucas and differing in the stamens which are included in the corolla tube and held together by intermingling hairs and by the upper lip of the corolla which is shorter than the lower lip (usually longer in Leucas).

Acrotome is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1838. The genus is native to the southern part of Africa.

Species Acrotome angustifolia G.Taylor - Zambabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Cape Province, Transvaal Acrotome fleckii (Gürke) Launert - Namibia Acrotome hispida Benth. - KwaZulu-Natal, Eswatini, Transvaal Acrotome inflata Benth. - South Africa, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho Acrotome mozambiquensis G.Taylor - Mozambique Acrotome pallescens Benth. - Namibia, Cape Province Acrotome tenuis G.Taylor - Zambia Acrotome thorncroftii Skan - KwaZulu-Natal, Eswatini, Transvaal, Mozambique