Description
Family Scrophulariaceae
Herbs, sometimes shrubs
, rarely trees
; mostly autotrophic, less often hemiparasitic or parasitic. Stipules absent. Leaves alternate, opposite, whorled
, or basally opposite and apically alternate, simple
or sometimes pinnately dissected
. Inflorescences racemes
, spikes, or thyrsoid
panicles, determinate or indeterminate, or flowers solitary. Flowers perfect
, usually zygomorphic, rarely actinomorphic
. Calyx often persistent
, (2-) 4- or 5-lobed or -parted, variously connate
. Corolla sympetalous
; limb (3 or) 4- or 5-lobed, often 2-lipped. Stamens mostly 4, didynamous
, sometimes 1 or 2 staminodes present, less often 2 or 5 stamens; anther
locules 1 or 2, equal or subequal
, free
or confluent
. Nectary
often present at base
of ovary, ringlike, cupular, or reduced to a gland
. Ovary superior, 2-loculed, rarely apically 1-loculed; ovules numerous
, rarely 2 per locule, on axile
placentas, anatropous
or hemitropous
. Style
simple; stigma capitate, 2-lobed, or 2-lamellate. Fruit a capsule, septicidal
, loculicidal, or septifragal, sometimes opening by pores
or irregularly dehiscent
, rarely a berry. Seeds minute or rarely conspicuous
, sometimes winged
; testa often reticulate
; hilum
lateral
or ventral
; endosperm fleshy
or absent; embryo straight or curved
.
About 220 genera and 4500 species: cosmopolitan
; 61 genera (seven endemic) and 681 species (415 endemic) throughout China but with a greater concentration in SW China.Deyuan Hong, Hanbi Yang, Cun-li Jin, Manfred A. Fischer, Noel H. Holmgren & Robert R. Mill "Scrophulariaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 18 Page 1. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Flowering Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Lamiidae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Superorder:
Lamianae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Scrophulariales
()
- Lindley, 1833
- Family:
Scrophulariaceae
()
- Durande, 1782, Nom. Cons.
- Figwort Family
- Genus:
Hebe
()
- Specific epithet:
hectori
- (Cheeseman) Wagstaff & Wardle
- Botanical name: - Hebe hectori coarctata (Cheeseman) Wagstaff & Wardle
- Specific epithet:
hectori
- (Cheeseman) Wagstaff & Wardle
- Genus:
Hebe
(
- Family:
Scrophulariaceae
(
- Order:
Scrophulariales
(
- Superorder:
Lamianae
(
- Subclass:
Lamiidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Hebe
There are approximately 786 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
H. 'Alicia Amherst' (Hebe) · H. 'Amanda Cook' · H. 'Amethyst' · H. 'Amy' (Hebe) · H. 'Andersonii Variegata' (Variegated Hebe) · H. 'Anita' · H. 'Anne Pimm' · H. 'Aoira' · H. 'April Joy' · H. 'Arthur' · H. 'Autumn Beauty' · H. 'Autumn Blue' · H. 'Autumn Blush' · H. 'Autumn Glory' (Hebe) · H. 'Autumn Joy' · H. 'Autumn Queen' · H. 'Avalon' · H. 'Azurea' · H. 'Azurens' · H. 'Baby Blush' · H. 'Baby Marie' · H. 'Balfouriana' · H. 'Barnettii' · H. 'Beatrice' · H. 'Beverley Hills' · H. 'Bicolor Wand' · H. 'Black Beauty' · H. 'Blonde' · H. 'Blue Clouds' · H. 'Blue Diamond' · H. 'Blue Elf' (Hebe) · H. 'Blue Gem' · H. 'Blue Shamrock' · H. 'Blue Star' · H. 'Blue Streak' · H. 'Blue Wand' · H. 'Bluebell' · H. 'Blush Wand' · H. 'Boscawenii' · H. 'Bouquet' · H. 'Bowles' Hybrid' · H. 'Bowles' Variety' · H. 'Bracken Hill' · H. 'Bracken Hills' · H. 'Brian Kessell' · H. 'Brill Blue' (Hebe) · H. 'Brockiei' · H. 'Bronzy Baby' · H. 'Buccleugh' · H. 'C.P. Raffill' · H. 'Caledonia' (Hebe) · H. 'Candy' · H. 'Carl Teschner' · H. 'Carnea Tricolor' · H. 'Carnea Variegata' · H. 'Carnea' · H. 'Cassinioides' · H. 'Celine' · H. 'Chalk's Buchananii' · H. 'Champagne' · H. 'Champion' · H. 'Champseiont' · H. 'Charming White' · H. 'Christabel' · H. 'Christensenii' · H. 'Cilsouth' · H. 'Clear Skies' (Hebe) · H. 'Colwall Blue' · H. 'Colwall' · H. 'Combe Royal' · H. 'Conwy Knight' · H. 'Coral Blue' · H. 'Coral Pink' · H. 'County Park' · H. 'Craig Park' · H. 'Cranleighensis' · H. 'Crawii' · H. 'Cressit' · H. 'Croftway Emberglow' · H. 'Cupins' · H. 'David Hughes' · H. 'Dazzler' · H. 'Deans Fya' · H. 'Debbie' · H. 'Denise' · H. 'Diamond' · H. 'Diana' · H. 'Dianne' · H. 'Dorothy Peach' · H. 'Douglasii' · H. 'E.A. Bowles' · H. 'E.B. Anderson' · H. 'Early Blue' · H. 'Edinensis' · H. 'Edington' · H. 'Ellen' · H. 'Emerald Dome' · H. 'Emerald Gem' · H. 'Emerald Green' (Hebe) · H. 'Ettrick Shepherd'
Bibliography
- Tsoong Puchiu & Yang Hanbi, eds. 1979. Scrophulariaceae (1). Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 67(2): 1-431. Tsoong Puchiu, ed. 1963. Scrophulariaceae (2). Fl. Reipulb. Popularis Sin. 68: 1-449.
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Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10845152
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15943579
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1007131-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3688875
