Teucrium nashii

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Interesting Facts

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]

Taxonomy

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

• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 5 1897-1901 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 270, p. 281, p. 297, p. 299, p. 300, p. 318, p. 708.
• Plant covering of Ocracoke Island; a study in the ecology of the North Carolina strand vegetation. By Thomas H. Kearney, jr. Washington, Gov't Print. Off., 1900. url , p. 297.
• Plant life of Alabama, an account of the distribution, modes of association, and adaptations of the flora of Alabama, together with a systematic catalogue of the plants growing in the state. By Charles Mohr. .. Montgomery, Ala., Brown printing co., 1901. url p. 708.
• Plant life of Alabama. An account of the distribution, modes of association, and adaptations of the flora of Alabama, together with a systematic catalogue of the plants growing in the state. Prepared in cooperationwith the Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1901. url .
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 223, p. 49.

Notes

Contributors

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

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2788929
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 4032854

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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