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Taxonomy

Notes:

Name Status: Accepted Name. Synonym: Phyllostegia glabra var. macraei. Latest taxonomic scrutiny: March 15, 2000.

Place of publication: Bot. Gaz. 96:136. 1934

Name verified on 21-Sep-1999 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 11-Feb-2007

Physical Description

Family Lamiaceae:

Herbs, sometimes subshrubs or shrubs, annual or perennial, usually aromatic. Stems and branches usually 4-angled. Leaves opposite, rarely whorled or alternate, simple to pinnately dissected or compound, without stipules. Inflorescences generally compound, sometimes flowers solitary and axillary; verticillasters 2- to many flowered, subtended by leaves or bracts. Flowers bisexual, zygomorphic, rarely subactinomorphic, bracteolate or not. Calyx persistent, 5-toothed, 2-lipped; upper lip 3-toothed or entire (deciduous in Scutellaria) ; lower lip 2- or 4-toothed; tube sometimes hairy annulate inside. Corolla limb usually 2-lipped; upper lip 2-lobed and lower 3-lobed, rarely upper lip entire and lower 4-lobed, also rarely limb (4- or) 5-lobed; tube hairy annulate inside. Stamens epipetalous, 4 or 2, free, rarely filaments connate, sometimes one staminodial; anther 1- or 2-celled, usually dehiscing longitudinally; disc persistent. Ovary superior, 2-celled and each cell 2-ovuled and style subterminal, or ovary 4-parted and each lobe 1-ovuled and style gynobasic (from bases of ovary lobes) with 2-cleft apex. Fruit usually 4 dry nutlets. Seeds with or without endosperm.

Approximately 3500 species in 220 genera, distributed worldwide, but mostly in the Mediterranean region and SW Asia. China has 807 species in 96 genera.^[1]

Habit: Forb/herb

Distribution

Aquatic Regions

Oceania

Range and Population

Native: .

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Similar Species

Members of the genus Phyllostegia:

There are approximately 147 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them: P. adenophora · P. alba · P. ambigua (Mountain Phyllostegia) · P. arenicola · P. atomifera · P. axillaris · P. bracteata (Bracted Phyllostegia) · P. brevicalycis · P. brevidens (Mauna Kea Phyllostegia) · P. brevilobata · P. brevis · P. brighamii · P. bryanii · P. capitata · P. catenulata · P. cernua · P. chamissonis · P. chartacea · P. clavata · P. cordata · P. cowanii · P. curta · P. decemiflorifer · P. decumbens · P. deltoidea · P. dentata · P. electra (Nehe Kuhiwa) · P. elliptica · P. emblica · P. fagerlindii · P. fayi · P. floribunda (Hawai'i Phyllostegia) · P. foliosa · P. forbesi · P. fragrans · P. glabra (Ulihi Phyllostegia) · P. glabra var. glabra · P. glabra var. glabra (Gaud.) Benth. (Ulihi Phyllostegia) · P. glabra var. lanaiensis · P. glabra var. lanaiensis Sherff (Ulihi Phyllostegia) · P. glabriuscula · P. glandulosa · P. grandiflora (Kapana) · P. grandiflora var. majoricalycis · P. haliakalae · P. haplostachya · P. helleri · P. heterodoxa · P. hiati · P. hillebrandi · P. hillebrandii (Hillebrand's Phyllostegia) · P. hillenbrandii · P. hirsuta (Molokai Phyllostegia) · P. hispida (Hispid Phyllostegia) · P. hitchcockii · P. hobdyi · P. honolulensis · P. hualalaiensis · P. imminuta (Lanai Phyllostegia) · P. insignis · P. interrupta · P. kaalaensis · P. kahiliensis · P. kamokuensis · P. kauaiensis · P. kauensis · P. kilaueaensis · P. knudsenii (Waimea Phyllostegia) · P. kohalaensis · P. konaensis · P. lanaiensis · P. lantanoides (Oahu Phyllostegia) · P. lantanoides var. konahuanuiana · P. laxior · P. lebishopii · P. lehuaensis · P. leptostachys · P. leukantha · P. linearifolia · P. longiflora · P. longitubata · P. lydgatei · P. macraei · P. macrophylla (Largeleaf Phyllostegia) · P. makawaoensis · P. mannii (Mann's Phyllostegia) · P. manoana · P. micrantha · P. microphylla · P. mollis (Waianae Range Phyllostegia) · P. molokaiensis · P. moniliformis · P. montana · P. multiflora · P. oahuensis · P. obatae · P. occidentalis · P. odorata · P. olokeleensis · P. olokuiensis

Bibliography

• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
• St. John, H. 1973. List and summary of the flowering plants in the Hawaiian islands. (L Hawaii)
• United States Fish and Wildlife Service. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Species Information: threatened and endangered animals and plants - on-line resource. (US Fish & Wildl List)
• Wagner, W. L. 1999. Nomenclator and review of Phyllostegia (Lamiaceae). Novon 9:269.
• Wagner, W. L. et al. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i. (F Hawaii)
• Wagner, W. L. et al. 1999. Hawaiian vascular plants at risk:1999. Bishop Mus. Occas. Pap. 60:37.
• Wu Cheng-yih & Li Hsi-wen, eds. 1977. Labiatae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 65(2): 1-649, 66: 1-647.

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Notes

Contributors:

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/Taxonomicon/]. Access date: Nov 23, 2005
• USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (April 30, 2008)
• USDA, NRCS. 2005. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.

Identifiers:

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 196158
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: PHGLG
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 55360

Footnotes:

1. Xi-wen Li & Ian C. Hedge "Lamiaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 50. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.