Prasieae (Tribe)

Overview

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Taxonomy

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The Tribe Prasieae is a member of the Subfamily Lamioideae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Prasieae:

Domain: Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Plantae Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
  - Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
    - Phylum: Tracheophyta Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
      - Subphylum: Euphyllophytina (Auct.) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
        Infraphylum: Angiospermae Auct.
        Class: Magnoliopsida Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
        Subclass: Asteridae Takhtajan, 1967
        Superorder: Lamianae Takhtajan, 1967
        Order: Lamiales Bromhead, 1838
        Family: Labiatae A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons., nom. alt.
        Subfamily: Lamioideae
        Tribe: Prasieae

The Tribe Prasieae is further organized into finer groupings including:

Genus (4): Gomphostemma · Phyllostegia · Prasium · Stenogyne
Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 164 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Tribe Prasieae.

Genera

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Gomphostemma

Shrubs or perennial herbs. Stems with stellate hairs. Leaves petiolate; leaf blade margin serrate, adaxially stellate puberulent/hirsute, abaxially densely stellate lanate. Inflorescences axillary, sometimes basal, rarely terminal, cymes pedunculate or sessile, sometimes in spikes or panicles; bracts subcircular to linear-lanceolate. Calyx campanulate to tubular, 10-veined, 5-toothed, teeth equal or subequal. Corolla purple-red or yellow to white, 2-lipped, straight or curved, long exserted; tube abruptly or gradually dilated at throat, not hairy annulate inside; upper lip straight, slightly galeate, entire or emarginate, sometimes mucronulate; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, middle lobe longest. Stamens 4, underlying upper lip, anterior 2 longest; filaments complanate, hairy on two sides or glabrous; anthers close together in pairs, cells parallel, transverse. Style included, apically subequally 2-cleft. Nutlets 1-4 maturing per flower, obovoid to ovoid, rarely globose, rugulose, glabrous or hirsute, drupelike, areole oblique.^[1] [more]

Phyllostegia

Phyllostegia is a genus of flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae. [more]

Prasium

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Stenogyne

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At least 38 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Stenogyne.

More info about the Genus Stenogyne may be found here.

Bibliography

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Wu Cheng-yih & Li Hsi-wen, eds. 1977. Labiatae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 65(2): 1-649, 66: 1-647.

Footnotes

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"Gomphostemma". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 70. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

Sources

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