Genus: Rotheca

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) >  Eudicotyledons >  Core Eudicots >  Asterids >  Euasterid I > Order: Lamiales>  Family: Lamiaceae

Species in this genus were formerly placed in Clerodendrum. There are nine species in southern Africa.

Species indigenous in southern Africa

List from Retief and Herman (2003).

Other species, cultivated in southern Africa

Some of the species listed under Clerodendrum might in fact be Rotheca (still to check).

Herbivores

Acherontia atropos Lepidoptera > Sphingidae The caterpillar have been recorded eating the leaves of Clerodendrum sp. (amongst quite a wide variety of host-plants).
Coelonia mauritii (Fulvous Hawkmoth) Lepidoptera > Sphingidae Caterpillars recorded eating the leaves of Clerodendrum glabrum.

Publications

• Glen, H.F. 2002. Cultivated Plants of Southern Africa. Jacana, Johannesburg.

• Retief, E. and Herman, P.P.J. 2003. Lamiaceae. In Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds), Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 584-600. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.