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Description
Genus Elsholtzia
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
, sublinear 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
- 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:
Nepetoideae
()
- Tribe:
Elsholtzieae
()
- Genus:
Elsholtzia
()
- Willdenow, 1790
- Elsholtzia
- Specific epithet:
nipponica
- Ohwi
- Botanical name: - Elsholtzia nipponica Ohwi
- Specific epithet:
nipponica
- Ohwi
- Genus:
Elsholtzia
(
- Tribe:
Elsholtzieae
(
- Subfamily:
Nepetoideae
(
- Family:
Labiatae
(
- Order:
Lamiales
(
- Superorder:
Lamianae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Angiospermae
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : Ohwi Publication : Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 1935, iv . 232, in obs.,japonice.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Elsholtzia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 3 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
E. ciliata (Crested Elsholtzia) · E. stauntonii (Mint-Shrub) · E. stauntonii 'Alba' (Mint-Shrub)
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Further Reading
- 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. 785.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10685579
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15533213
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:446674-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1313103
Footnotes
- "Elsholtzia". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 246. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
