Teucrium orientale

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Genus Teucrium

Herbs or subshrubs , with rhizomes or stolons. Stems erect or ascending , simple or branched from base . Leaves simple, petiolate or subsessile , cordate to lanceolate, penniveined. Verticillasters 2-6-flowered, in false spikes, terminal racemes , or panicles of racemes; bracts rhombic-ovate to linear-lanceolate, margin entire or dentate . Calyx 10-veined, throat glabrous to pilose annulate ; tube tubular to campanulate , swollen in front at base; limb equally 5-toothed to 2-lipped, upper lip 3-toothed, lower lip 2-toothed. Corolla 1-lipped; tube included or exserted, not hairy annulate inside; limb 5-lobed, with middle lobe circular or spatulate , occasionally 2-lobulate; lateral lobes 4, small. Stamens 4, anterior 2 slightly longer , all exserted from posterior sinus of corolla; anther cells divaricate . Ovary globose . Style equal to or slightly longer than stamens, equally or subequally 2-cleft at apex. Nutlets obovoid , glabrous, smooth to netted , areole ca. 1/2 as long as nutlet .

Approximately 260 species: worldwide, but abundant in the Mediterranean region; 18 species in China.[1]

Physical Description

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Growth

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full sun .

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b. (map)

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Similar Species

Members of the genus Teucrium

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 35 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

T. aroanium (Gray Creeping Germander) · T. bicolor (Oreganillo) · T. botrys (Cut Leaved Germander) · T. canadense (American Germander) · T. canadense var. canadense (Virginia Germander) · T. canadense var. hypoleucum (Canada Germander) · T. canadense var. occidentale (American Germander) · T. chamaedrys (Creeping Germander) · T. chamaedrys 'Nanum' (Dwarf Wall Germander) · T. chamaedrys 'Prostratum' (Wall Germander) · T. chamaedrys 'Summer Sunshine' (Wall Germander) · T. cossonii 'Majoricum' (Fruity Germander) · T. cubense (Small Coastal Germander) · T. cubense var. cubense (Small Coastal Germander) · T. cubense var. densum (Small Coastal Germander) · T. cubense var. laevigatum (Small Coastal Germander) · T. divaricatum (Germander) · T. fruticans (Shrubby Germander) · T. fruticans 'Azurea' (Shrubby Germander) · T. fruticans 'Azureum' (Azure Bush Germander) · T. glandulosum (Common Germander) · T. hircanicum (Germander) · T. hircanicum 'Paradise Delight' (Paradise Delight Germander) · T. hyrcanicum (Caucasian Germander) · T. hyrcanicum 'Purple Tails' (Caucasian Germander) · T. laciniatum (Germander) · T. lucidum (Germander) · T. marum (Cat Thyme Germander) · T. orientale (Oriental Germander) · T. polium (Felty Germander) · T. pyrenaicum (Pyrenean Germander) · T. scorodonia (Wood Sage) · T. scorodonia 'Crispum' (Wood Sage) · T. viscidum (Germander) · T. viscidum 'Lemon and Lime' (Lemon And Lime Germander)

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Further Reading

• A practical guide to garden plants, containing descriptions of the hardiest and most beautiful annuals and biennials, hardy herbaceous and bulbous perennials, hardy water and bog plants, flowering and ornamental trees and shrubs, conife London;Longmans, Green, 1901. url p. 758.
• Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory and the Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: [s.n., url .
• Edwards's botanical register. London: James Ridgway, 1829-1847. url .
• Flora of the U.S.S.R. [Springfield, Va.: Israel Program for Scientific Translations; 1968- url p. 30, p. 32.
• Loddiges, C. L. The botanical cabinet: consisting of coloured delineations of plants, from all countries, with a short account of each, directions for management, &c, &c /by Conrad Loddiges & Sons; the plates by George Cooke... 19 1832 London: John & Arthur Arch. .., 1817-1833. url , p. T - Z.
• The English flower garden and home grounds; design and arrangement shown by existing examples of gardens in Great Britain and Ireland, followed by a description of the plants, shrubs and trees for the open-air garden and their culture, by W. Robinson. .. Illustrated with many engravings on wood. London: J. Murray, 1900. url p. 835.
• The natural history of plants, their forms, growth, reproduction, and distribution; Dublin, Blackie & son, limited, 1902. url .
• Travels in the central Caucasus and Bashan; including visits to Ararat and Tabreez and ascents of Kazbek and Elbruz. By Douglas W. Freshfield. London: Longmans, Green, & co., 1869. url p. 504.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 13, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 28, 2007:

• Israel Nature and Parks Authority, Israel Nature and Parks Authority
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• Utah State University, USU-UTC Specimen Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2669552
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-505462
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13762739
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:460599-1
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 505462
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: TEOR
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 65743

Footnotes

1. "Teucrium". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 56. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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