Scutellaria sessilifolia Hemsl.

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Lamiaceae > Scutellaria

Characteristics

Herbs perennial, rhizomatous, stoloniferous. Stems ascending, trailing at base, 50 cm tall, slightly winged, glabrous, unbranched, base leafless. Leaves sessile or subsessile, ovate, 1.9-3.5 × 0.9-2 cm, ± leathery, adaxially sparsely strigose, abaxially sometimes glabrous, base rounded to slightly amplexicaul or truncate, margin subentire, obscurely 3-or 4-crenate, or remotely acutely serrate, apex acute to caudate-acuminate. Racemes 3-7-flowered, pendent, secund, almost 2 × as long as leaves, in axils of mid stem leaves, sometimes also terminal; bracts ovate-subulate, glandular pubescent. Pedicel ca. 2.5 mm, glandular pubescent. Calyx ca. 2 mm, ca. 3.5 mm in fruit, slightly glandular pubescent; scutellum ca. 1.5 mm, to 3.5 mm in fruit. Corolla purplish to purple red, base white, ca. 1.8 cm, sparsely glandular puberulent outside, glabrous inside; tube base saccate-spurred, spur to 2 mm, throat to 3.5 mm wide; middle lobe of lower lip triangular-ovate, ca. 5 mm wide, apex rounded. Fl. Jun-Aug, fr. Aug-Sep.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.5
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Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
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JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
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Usage

Uses medicinal
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Cultivation

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

Scutellaria sessilifolia world distribution map, present in China and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:458654-1
WFO ID wfo-0000308459
COL ID 4W2LK
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Scutellaria sessilifolia f. ramiflora Scutellaria sessilifolia Scutellaria sessilifolia f. sessilifolia Scutellaria sessilifolia f. terminalis