- Family: Lamiaceae Martinov
Lamium L.
This genus is accepted, and its native range is Temp. Eurasia, Macaronesia to Ethiopia.
Descriptions
According to Flora Zambesiaca under the synonym Pollichia
[FZ]Illecebraceae, H. Wild. Flora Zambesiaca 1:2. 1961
- Habit
- Low shrublet with stiff, erect or suberect branches.
- Leaves
- Leaves opposite but appearing as though verticillate; stipules free, scarious.
- Flowers
- Flowers in dense, subsessile, axillary cymes.
- Receptacle
- Receptacle cupuliform.
- Calyx
- Sepals 5, small, free.
- Corolla
- Petals 5, minute.
- Stamens
- Stamens 1–2, like the perianth-parts perigynous.
- Pistil
- Ovary 1-locular with two basal ovules; style filiform, persistent.
- Fruits
- Fruit indehiscent, 1–2-seeded, surrounded by the persistent sepals and bracts; the rhachides of the inflorescence and lower parts of the bracts all enlarging and becoming fleshy in fruit.
- Seeds
- Seeds with a curved embryo.
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Distribution
Native to:
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Canary Is., Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Manchuria, Mongolia, Morocco, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Netherlands, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Norway, Ogasawara-shoto, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Qinghai, Romania, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, South European Russi, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yugoslavia
Introduced into:
Alabama, Alaska, Alberta, Antipodean Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Bermuda, Bolivia, British Columbia, California, Chile Central, Chile North, Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Ecuador, Falkland Is., Florida, Georgia, Greenland, Hawaii, Iceland, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Kermadec Is., Labrador, Louisiana, Magadan, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Masachusettes, Mexico Southeast, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Newfoundland, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, North Dakota, Northwest Territorie, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Peru, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Saskatchewan, South Carolina, South Dakota, St.Helena, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Yukon
Accepted Species
- Lamium album L.
- Lamium amplexicaule L.
- Lamium bakhtiaricum Jamzad
- Lamium bifidum Cirillo
- Lamium caucasicum Grossh.
- Lamium confertum Fr.
- Lamium coutinhoi J.G.García
- Lamium cyrneum Paradis
- Lamium demirizii A.P.Khokhr.
- Lamium eriocephalum Benth.
- Lamium flexuosum Ten.
- Lamium galactophyllum Boiss. & Reut.
- Lamium galeobdolon (L.) L.
- Lamium garganicum L.
- Lamium gevorense (Gómez Hern.) Gómez Hern. & A.Pujadas
- Lamium glaberrimum (K.Koch) Taliev
- Lamium × holsaticum Prahl
- Lamium macrodon Boiss. & A.Huet
- Lamium maculatum (L.) L.
- Lamium moschatum Mill.
- Lamium multifidum L.
- Lamium orientale (Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) E.H.L.Krause
- Lamium orvala L.
- Lamium persepolitanum (Boiss.) Jamzad
- Lamium purpureum L.
- Lamium × schroeteri Gams
- Lamium taiwanense S.S.Ying
- Lamium tomentosum Willd.
- Lamium tschorochense A.P.Khokhr.
- Lamium vreemanii A.P.Khokhr.
Synonyms
Other Data
Lamium L. appears in other Kew resources:
Bibliography
First published in Sp. Pl.: 579 (1753)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Sources
Flora Zambesiaca
Flora Zambesiaca
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0