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Description
Genus Hyptis
Herbs, subshrubs
, or shrubs
, erect
. Leaves dentate
. Bracts subulate
to spinescent
. Flowers in capitula, compact
spikes, or loose
panicles. Calyx tubular-campanulate to tubular
, erect to oblique
, 10-veined, throat
tufted
villous
or glabrous
; teeth 5, subequal
, straight; fruiting calyx dilated. Corolla 2-lipped; tube
cylindric
to swollen on 1 side, nearly cylindric to narrowly funnelform
; upper lip 2-lobed, lobes
erect, spreading
, or reflexed
; lower lip 3-lobed, middle
lobe saccate, reflexed in flower, base
constricted
, sometimes with projected
teeth; lateral
lobes similar, conspicuous
, close together to lobes of upper lip or to middle lobe. Stamens 4, anterior 2 longer
, declined; filaments
free
, edentate
; anther
cells
2, apically confluent
. Style apex 2-cleft or subentire
. Disc entire or slightly swollen in front. Nutlets
ovoid
to oblong
, smooth
or dotted
, scabrid
, membranous winged
in a few species.
Some 350-400 species: tropical
and subtropical
regions of the New World, four naturalized
species in China.[1]
Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial [2].
Ecology:
List of Habitats
:
- 1 Forest
- 1.9 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane [more info]
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:
Ocimeae
()
- Subtribe:
Hyptidinae
()
- Genus:
Hyptis
()
- N.J. Jacquin, 1787, nom. cons.
- Bushmint
- Specific epithet:
pseudoglauca
- Epling
- Botanical name: - Hyptis pseudoglauca Epling
- Specific epithet:
pseudoglauca
- Epling
- Genus:
Hyptis
(
- Subtribe:
Hyptidinae
(
- Tribe:
Ocimeae
(
- Subfamily:
Nepetoideae
(
- 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 Hyptis
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 13 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
H. alata (Cluster Bushmint) · H. americana (American Bushmint) · H. atrorubens (Marubio Oscuro) · H. capitata (False Ironwort) · H. chamaedrys (Ortela) · H. emoryi (Desert Lavender) · H. escobilla (Bayamon) · H. lantanifolia (Island Bushmint) · H. mutabilis (Tropical Bushmint) · H. pectinata (Comb Bushmint) · H. spicigera (American Bushmint) · H. suaveolens (Mumutun) · H. verticillata (Hyptis Bushmint)
More Info
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Further Reading
- IUCN. 2004. 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 23 November 2004.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- Montúfar, R. & Pitman, N. 2004. Hyptis pseudoglauca. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 01February2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5988669
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:448336-1
- IUCN ID: 215893
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1028533
Footnotes
- "Hyptis". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 267. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- Montúfar, R. & Pitman, N. 2004. Hyptis pseudoglauca. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 01 February 2012. [back]
