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Amethystea caerulea L.
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Anhui, Gansu, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Xizang, Yunnan [Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Russia; SW Asia]
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Stems 30-100 cm tall, base sometimes woody, pyramidally branched, purplish, pilose or puberulent especially on nodes. Petiole 0.7-2 cm, purple or purplish green, grooved, narrowly winged, sparsely hirsute; leaf blade triangular to subovate, sometimes purplish, usually 3-5-partite, lobes lanceolate, adaxially puberulent to subglabrous, abaxially glabrous, margin coarsely serrate to double serrate; middle lobe 2.5-4.7 × 0.8-1.5 cm; lateral lobes 2-3.5 × 0.7-1.2 cm, asymmetrical, decurrent. Panicles composed of lax, long pedunculate cymes; peduncle sparsely glandular; bracteoles ca. 1 mm, ciliate. Pedicel 1-2.5 mm, sparsely glandular. Calyx ca. 2 mm, papillate outside, glandular, the 5 accessory veins inconspicuous; teeth triangular, ca. 1 mm, apically acuminate, ciliate. Corolla blue or purplish blue, tube glabrous; limb glandular, lobes of upper lip oblong-ovate to ovate, lower lip slightly larger. Nutlets abaxially netted-wrinkled, adaxially ribbed, smooth, areole ca. 1/2 as long as nutlet. Fl. Aug-Sep, fr. Sep-Oct.
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Fields, sandy soil along rivers, open roadsides, streamsides; 200-3400 m.
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Amethystea is a genus of plants in the Lamiaceae, first described for modern science by Linnaeus in 1753. It has only one known species, Amethystea caerulea, native to China, Japan, Korea, Central Asia (Tibet, Xinjiang, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan), and parts of Russia (Altai, Chita, Irkutsk, Buryatiya, Primorye).[1][2][3][4]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Muldashev, A.A. (2011). New floristic records for Bashkiria. Botanicheskii Zhurnal. Moscow & Leningrad 96: 654-660.
- ^ Sheremetova, S.A., Ebel, A.L. & Buko, T.E. (2011). Supplement to the flora of Kemerovo region since 2001 till 2010. Turczaninowia 14(1): 65-74.
- ^ Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 55, 水棘针 shui ji zhen, Amethystea caerulea Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 21. 1753.
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Used medicinally for perspiration.
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