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Anisomeles R.Br.

Genus

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Lamiaceae

Characteristics

Herbs erect, robust. Leaves dentate. Verticillasters many flowered, in dense or interrupted, long, terminal spikes; upper floral leaves reduced, bractlike; bracts linear, minute. Calyx campanulate, inconspicuously 10-veined, apex netted; teeth 5, equal, straight, slightly dilated in fruit. Corolla 2-lipped; tube as long as calyx, finely pilose annulate inside; upper lip erect, margin entire, slightly concave; lower lip longer, spreading, 3-lobed; middle lobe largest, emarginate or 2-lobulate. Stamens 4, exserted, didynamous, anterior 2 usually longer; anterior anthers transversely 2-celled, posterior anthers 1-celled. Style apex 2-cleft, lobes subulate, subequal. Disc cupulate, crenate. Nutlets black, subglobose, shiny.
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Herbs, or sometimes shrubby. Stems and branches softly pubescent or woolly. Flowers in axillary whorls or forming a loose terminal spicate or paniculate inflorescence. Calyx ovoid or tubular-campanulate, straight, 10-nerved, almost equally 5-toothed. Corolla tube short, annulate within; upper lip short, entire and erect; lower lip 3-lobed, broad and patent, midlobe retuse or notched. Stamens exserted, in 2 pairs, those of the lower pair often ± longer; anthers of the upper pair sterile, of the lower pair only one cell fertile. Disk equal-sided. Style subequally 2-fid. Nutlets smooth, flattened, bluntly angular, and with rather prominent scar on the ventral surface.
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Open, often waste places, and secondary growths, not a constituent of the primary forest, in the lowland and hills.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Images

Anisomeles unspecified picture

Distribution

Anisomeles world distribution map, present in Andorra, Australia, Bangladesh, China, Fiji, Indonesia, Jamaica, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Moldova (Republic of), Madagascar, Maldives, Myanmar, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Réunion, Thailand, Taiwan, Province of China, Viet Nam, Samoa, and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:20664-1
WFO ID wfo-4000002184
COL ID 8VTW4
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INPN ID 705208
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Synonyms

Anisomeles

Lower taxons

Anisomeles heyneana Anisomeles indica Anisomeles intermedia Anisomeles malabarica Anisomeles moschata Anisomeles salviifolia Anisomeles candicans Anisomeles tirunelveliensis Anisomeles ajugacea Anisomeles antrorsa Anisomeles brevipilosa Anisomeles bundeyensis Anisomeles carpentarica Anisomeles dallachyi Anisomeles eriodes Anisomeles farinacea Anisomeles grandibractea Anisomeles languida Anisomeles lappa Anisomeles leucotricha Anisomeles macdonaldii Anisomeles papuana Anisomeles principis Anisomeles viscidula Anisomeles xerophila Anisomeles inodora Anisomeles ornans
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