Overview
Herbs, subshrubs, or shrubs. Verticillasters in continuous or interrupted spikes or capitula; spikes cylindric or secund, often compact, sometimes in panicles; bracts ovate or flabellate to minute, narrower than calyx. Calyx campanulate or cylindric, throat glabrous; teeth 5, subequal or anterior 2 longer. Corolla white, yellowish, or purplish, 2-lipped, hairy and glandular outside, hairy annulate or glabrous inside; tube to slightly longer than calyx, straight or slightly curved, funnelform; upper lip straight, margin entire or emarginate; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, lateral lobes entire; middle lobe largest, margin entire, apex erose or emarginate. Stamens 4, usually exserted, anterior 2 longer, rarely undeveloped, free; filaments glabrous; anther cells 2, divergent or divaricate, apex confluent. Ovary glabrous. Style usually exserted beyond stamens, apex deeply to shallowly 2-cleft; lobes subulate, subline ar or clavate, usually equal. Nutlets ovoid to oblong, glabrous or sparsely hairy, tuberculate or smooth.
About 40 species: Europe, Japan, Korea, North America; 33 species in China.[1]
Taxonomy
The Genus Elsholtzia is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 85 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Genus Elsholtzia: E. alopecuroides · E. amurensis · E. angustifolia · E. aquatica · E. argyi · E. beddomei · E. blanda · E. bodinieri · E. calycocarpa · E. capituligera · E. cephalantha · E. ciliata (Crested Late-Summer Mint) · E. ciliata var. brevipes · E. ciliata var. ramosa · E. ciliata var. remota · E. communis · E. concinna · E. cristata · E. cypriani · E. cyprianii · E. densa · E. densa var. calycocarpa · E. dependens · E. dielsii · E. elata · E. eriocalyx · E. eriocalyx var. tomentosa · E. eriostachya · E. exigua · E. feddei · E. flava · E. formosana · E. fruticosa · E. fruticosa var. glabrifolia · E. glabra · E. haichowensis · E. heterophylla · E. hoffmeisteri · E. hunanensis · E. ianthina · E. incisa · E. integrifolia · E. interrupta · E. japonica · E. javanica · E. kachinensis · E. labordei · E. lampradena · E. luteola · E. lychnitis · E. macrostemon · E. major · E. minima · E. monostachys · E. myosurus · E. nipponica · E. ochroleuca · E. ochroleuca var. parvifolia · E. oldhami · E. oppositifolia · E. paniculata · E. patrini · E. patrinii · E. penduliflora · E. pilosa · E. polystachya · E. pseudo-cristata · E. pubescens · E. pusilla · E. pygmaea · E. rugulosa · E. saxatilis · E. schimperi · E. serotina · E. souliei · E. splendens · E. stachyodes · E. stauntoni · E. stauntonii (Mint-Shrub) · E. stauntonii 'Alba' (Mint-Shrub) · E. stellipila · E. strobilifera · E. sublanceolata · E. tristis · E. winitiana
Footnotes
- "Elsholtzia". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 246. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
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