BECIUM Lindl.
Herbs or soft small shrubs. Leaves opposite, simple, petiolate. Inflorescence a terminal spike-like raceme. Flowers in 6-flowered whorls, bracts much smaller than the leaves. Calyx 2-lipped, 5-toothed, tube short, upper tooth much larger than the rest, broadly ovate to subrotund, 2 lateral teeth small, subulate, 2 lower teeth fused, forming an oblong emarginate or 2-toothed lip. Corolla 2-lipped, mauve to whitish, upper lip 4-lobed with ± equal lobes, lower lip spreading, concave. Stamens 4, shortly exserted. Style exserted, 2-lobed.The definition of this genus is not clear to us after the merging with Becium. This description is therefore provisional Worldwide: 150 species in warm temperate and tropical regions, especially Africa Zambia: 22 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| africanum Lour. | B,N,W,C,S | |
| albostellatum (Verdc.) A.J.Paton | N,W | |
| americanum L. | B,N,C,S | Description, Image |
| americanum / africanum [Agg] | B,N,W,C,S | Description, Image |
| angustifolium Benth. | B,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| basilicum L. | ||
| centraliafricanum R.E. Fr. | B,N,W,C | Description |
| dambicola A.J.Paton | N | |
| decumbens Gürke | N,W,C | |
| filamentosum Forssk. | E,S | Description, Image |
| fimbriatum Briq. var. fimbriatum | B,N,W,E | |
| fimbriatum Briq. var. angustilanceolatum (De Wild.) A.J.Paton | N | |
| fimbriatum Briq. var. ctenodon (Gilli) A.J.Paton | W | |
| fimbriatum Briq. var. microphyllum (Sebald) A.J.Paton | N | |
| gratissimum L. subsp. gratissimum var. gratissimum | B,N,W,C,S | Description, Image |
| lamiifolium Benth. | W | Image |
| minutiflorum (Sebald) A.J. Paton | N | |
| obovatum Benth. subsp. obovatum var. obovatum | B,N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| obovatum Benth. subsp. obovatum var. galpinii (Gürke) A.J. Paton | E | |
| tenuiflorum L. | W | |
| vanderystii (De Wild.) A.J.Paton | W | |
| viphyense (Sebald) A.J.Paton | N |