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Phyllostegia elliptica

Description

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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.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.

Taxonomy

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Similar Species

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Members of the genus Phyllostegia

There are approximately 76 species in this genus:

P. adenophora · P. alba · P. ambigua (Mountain Phyllostegia) · P. bracteata (Bracted Phyllostegia) · P. brevidens (Mauna Kea Phyllostegia) · P. brevis · P. brighamii · P. chartacea · P. clavata · P. cordata · P. cowanii · P. curta · P. electra (Nehe Kuhiwa) · P. elliptica · P. fagerlindii · P. floribunda (Hawai'i Phyllostegia) · P. forbesi · P. glabra (Ulihi Phyllostegia) · P. glabra var. glabra (Ulihi Phyllostegia) · P. glabra var. lanaiensis · P. glabra var. lanaiensis Sherff (Ulihi Phyllostegia) · P. grandiflora (Kapana) · P. haliakalae · P. haplostachya · P. helleri · P. hillebrandi · P. hillebrandii (Hillebrand's Phyllostegia) · P. hillenbrandii · P. hirsuta (Molokai Phyllostegia) · P. hispida (Hispid Phyllostegia) · P. hitchcockii · P. imminuta (Lanai Phyllostegia) · P. insignis · P. kaalaensis · P. kahiliensis · P. kilaueaensis · P. knudsenii (Waimea Phyllostegia) · P. konaensis · P. lanaiensis · P. lantanoides (Oahu Phyllostegia) · P. lehuaensis · P. linearifolia · P. longitubata · 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. oahuensis · P. occidentalis · P. odorata · P. parviflora (Smallflower Phyllostegia) · P. parviflora var. glabriuscula · P. parviflora var. glabriuscula Gray (Smallflower Phyllostegia) · P. parviflora var. lydgatei · P. parviflora var. parviflora (Smallflower Phyllostegia) · P. phytolaccoides · P. pilosa · P. polyantha · P. racemosa (Kiponapona) · P. renovans · P. rockii (Rock's Phyllostegia) · P. stachyoides (Maui Phyllostegia) · P. tahitensis · P. truncata · P. variabilis (Coastal Phyllostegia) · P. velutina (Velvet Phyllostegia) · P. vestita (Streambed Phyllostegia) · P. waimeae (Kauai Phyllostegia) · P. warshaueri (Laupahoehoe Phyllostegia) · P. wawrana (Fuzzystem Phyllostegia) · P. yamaguchi · P. yamaguchii (Yamaguchi's Phyllostegia)

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Last Revised: 2008-11-12