WorldFloraDB - Ballota

Characteristics

Perennial herbs or subshrubs with ± erect stems. Lvs simple, toothed. Verticels few-to many-flowered, axillary. Bracts similar to lvs. Bracteoles present. Calyx tube not gibbous at base, funnelform, 10-nerved; limb 5-16-toothed, sometimes broad and undulate; calyx teeth acute to aristate. Corolla tube < or = calyx, with ring of hairs inside; upper lip arched to concave, densely hairy; lower lip with 3 spreading lobes. Stamens parallel, lying beneath corolla upper lip, the outer pair longest; anther cells diverging. Style gynobasic, its branches subequal. Nutlets oblong; apex rounded.

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Cal regular, with 10 or more strong nerves, the lobes short and broadly triangular to linear; cor strongly 2-lipped, the tube about equaling the cal, the upper lip subgaleately rounded, hairy, the lower lip about as long as the upper, with prominent lateral lobes; stamens 4, ascending under the upper lip, the lower pair the longer; anthers glabrous; nutlets clavate, glabrous; perennial herbs or shrubs with pink or purple (white) fls in loose, short-peduncled cymes from the axils of the reduced upper lvs. 35, Eur., Medit., w. Asia.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	herb
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