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Description
Genus Comanthosphace
Plants
rhizomatous
perennial
, herbs or subshrubs
. Stems usually unbranched, erect
. Leaves petiolate
or subsessile
, dentate
. Verticillasters
6-10-flowered, in long, terminal
, densely white stellate
tomentose
spikes; bracts leaflike or scalelike, early deciduous; bracteoles indistinct, minute. Calyx tubular-campanulate, inconspicuously 10-veined, stellate tomentose outside, glabrous
inside; teeth 5, short triangular, apex acute, anterior 2 longer
. Corolla reddish to purple, 2-lipped; tube
funnelform
, villous
annulate
near middle
; upper lip 2-lobed or occasionally entire; lower lip 3-lobed, middle lobe ovate
, spreading
, concave
, ± saccate
; lateral
lobes
erect, smaller than middle lobe. Stamens 4, anterior 2 longer, much exserted; filaments
glabrous; anthers
ovoid
, cells
1, transversely dehiscent
. Ovary brown, glabrous, glandular
. Nutlets
triquetrous
, ellipsoid
, yellow-brown, golden glandular.
About six species: China, Japan; three species in China.[1]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- 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:
Pogostemoneae
()
- Genus:
Comanthosphace
()
- S. Moore, 1877
- Specific epithet:
barbinervis
- S.Moore
- Botanical name: - Comanthosphace barbinervis S.Moore
- Specific epithet:
barbinervis
- S.Moore
- Genus:
Comanthosphace
(
- Tribe:
Pogostemoneae
(
- Subfamily:
Lamioideae
(
- Family:
Labiatae
(
- Order:
Lamiales
(
- Superorder:
Lamianae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Angiospermae
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Comanthosphace
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Further Reading
- Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: The Museum, 1951-1992. url p. 26.
- Flora of Japan: in English: combined, much revised and extended translation / by the author of his Flora of Japan (1953) and Flora of Japan, Pteridophyta (1957); edited by Frederick G. Meyer and Egbert H. Walker. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1965. url p. 1006, p. 784.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 30, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10685399
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15532719
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:446257-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 446256-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3468917
Footnotes
- "Comanthosphace". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 256. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
