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(Last Modified On 4/4/2013)
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(Last Modified On 4/4/2013)
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Species
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Hyptis suaveolens (L.) Poit.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 7: 472, p1. 29, f. 2, 1806.
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Synonym
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Ballota suaveolens L., Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1100, 1759. Mesosphaerum suaveolens (L.) 0. Ktze., Rev. Gen. P1. 2: 525, 1891.
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Description
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Herbs, coarse, slightly suffrutescent at the base, to 3 m, lightly to densely pubescent, the hairs uniseriate and to 3 mm long, some glandular-capitate. Leaves deltoid, ovate, or rhombate, acute, serrate to doubly serrate, the bases cordate to rounded, to 8(-12) cm long and 6(-8) cm wide, pubescent on both surfaces, densely so on the veins beneath; petioles to 7 cm long. Inflorescences cymes, 3-6-flowered, the peduncles ca 0.5-2 cm long, the bracts leaflike, caducous. Flowers subsessile; calyx narrowly campanulate, ca 4. 5-6(-8) mm long at maturity, teeth spinulose, ca 2(-3.5) mm long, ca 10-ribbed, membranaceous, pubescent; corolla purple, the tube ca 4-5 mm long, exserted, the lips ca 1.5-2 mm long, pubescent; filaments pubescent, the anthers ca 0.3 mm long; style slender, ca 4 mm long, weakly 2-lobed. Nutlets 1(-2), rectangular, ca 3 mm long, the pericarp corky and dark brown.
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Herbs
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Distribution
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Widely distributed in the tropics of North and South America, and also found in the East Indies to Hong Kong and Formosa, Australia, and Africa.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Columbus I., 6 mi inland, von Wedel 34 (MO); vic of Chiriqui Lagoon, Careening Cay, von Wedel 2818 (MO). CANAL ZONE: sabanas along drowned Rio Azote Caballo, Dodge et al. 16834 (MO). COCLE: viC Rio Teta & Pan Am Hwy, Blum & Tyson 1892 (MO). DARIEN: viC of El Llano, Duke 5795 (MO). PANAMA: betw Capira & Potrero, Dodge & Hunter 8640 (MO); 5-6 mi E of Chepo on Pan Am Hwy, Duke 4049 (MO); nr beach at Nueva Gorgona, Duke 4490 (MO).
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