Scutellaria glabra Leonard

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Lamiaceae > Scutellaria

Characteristics

long, early deciduous. Flowers with pedicels ca 2-6 mm long; bracteoles 2, minute, less than  0.5 mm long; calyx 2.5-3 mm long in flower, enlarging to ca 5-6 mm in fruit, the squama of the upper lip extending to ca 4-5 mm in fruit; corolla red or blue, ca 2-2.5 cm long, the tube constricted above the calyx, then weakly expanded, the upper lip arched, the lower lip flat, naked within; lower stamen" pair attached 13-15 mm from the base, the anthers ca 0.6 mm long; gynobase conspicuous, asymmetrical and gynophore-like, the style long and slender, the branches unequal. Nutlets (3-)4, semi-spherical, black, evenly tuberculate, ca 2 mm in diameter.
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Subshrubs, erect, to 1.5 m, mostly glabrous. Leaves ovate or elliptic-ovate,. subentire or undulate, the bases shallowly cordate, to 18 cm long and 8 cm wide, glabrous; petioles ca 3-5 cm long. Inflorescences verticillasters, 1-2-flowered, arranged in a false raceme, ca 10-25 cm long, the bracts lanceolate, ca 3-5 mm
Life form perennial
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.5
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 14 - 180
Germination temperacture (C°) 10
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Distribution

Scutellaria glabra world distribution map, present in Costa Rica and Panama

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:231064-2
WFO ID wfo-0000307842
COL ID 4W289
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Synonyms

Scutellaria glabra