Perilla L.

Perilla (en), Pérille (fr)

Genus

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Lamiaceae

Characteristics

Herbs aromatic, annual. Leaves dentate. Verticillasters 2-flowered, in terminal and axillary secund racemes; bracts broadly ovate to subcircular. Flowers pedicellate. Calyx campanulate, 10-veined, straight in flower, enlarged, spreading or pendulous, swollen on 1 side in fruit, throat pilose annulate, limb 2-lipped, upper lip 3-toothed, with middle tooth smallest, lower lip 2-toothed, teeth lanceolate. Corolla white to purple-red, campanulate, throat oblique; limb nearly 2-lipped, upper lip emarginate; lower lip 3-lobed, lateral lobes smaller than middle, similar to upper lip. Stamens 4, subequal or anterior 2 longer, erect, separate; anther cells 2, parallel, becoming divergent or divaricate. Style included, apex 2-cleft; lobes subequal, subulate. Nutlets subglobose, netted.
More
Cal campanulate, 10-nerved, at anthesis weakly 2-lipped, the lips slightly longer than the villous tube, the lower cleft to the base into narrowly triangular segments, the upper cleft a third its length into broadly triangular lobes, the middle one the shortest; fruiting cal enlarged, distinctly 2-lipped, distended on the lower side; cor-tube shorter than the cal, the lips about equal, the 5 lobes broadly rounded; stamens 4, nearly equal, straight, not connivent, about as long as the cor; nutlets globose, areolate; annuals, often purple or purplish, with large, long-petioled lvs and small, purple or white fls borne singly in the axils of small bracteal lvs, forming a loose, elongate, spike-like infl. 5, India to Japan.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
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Flower color
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Nitrogen fixer -
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Environment

Light -
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-11

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use Febrifuge (unspecified), Antitussive (unspecified), Diaphoretic (unspecified), Sedative (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 15 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 23
Germination luminosity light
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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Productivity -

Images

Perilla unspecified picture
Perilla unspecified picture

Distribution

Perilla world distribution map, present in Åland Islands, Bangladesh, China, Micronesia (Federated States of), Georgia, Indonesia, Japan, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Nepal, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), Russian Federation, Thailand, Taiwan, Province of China, Ukraine, United States of America, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:326475-2
WFO ID wfo-4000028769
COL ID 8W28Q
BDTFX ID 86956
INPN ID 606962
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Perilla

Lower taxons

Perilla frutescens