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Capitanopsis brevilabra

Capitanopsis brevilabra
Photo: Daderot, Public domain

Capitanopsis brevilabra is a rare subshrub from the Lamiaceae (mint family), known only from a small coastal area of southeastern Madagascar and listed as Endangered. It is not a common garden plant, so care guidance below is general and based on its native habitat.

Family
Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Water when the top few centimetres of soil are dry, reducing in the dry season.
Soil
Free-draining, humus-rich mix with some sand or perlite.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
SE. Madagascar
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Capitanopsis brevilabra is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae. It is an herb or shrub native to southeastern Madagascar. It flowers in March.

Where it grows

Capitanopsis brevilabra is found only in the Sainte Luce area in southeastern coastal Madagascar, where it grows in humid littoral forests between sea level and 50 meters elevation.

Other Capitanopsis plants

Capitanopsis magentea · Capitanopsis oreophila · Capitanopsis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Capitanopsis brevilabra by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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