- Family: Lamiaceae Martinov
Lamium L.
[LKGF]
Harley, R.M. et al. (2004). Labiatae, in The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants (K. Kubitzki, ed. in chief) VI: 167-275. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York.
- Morphology General Habit
- Annual or rhizomatous or stoloniferous perennial herbs, pubescent with simple hairs
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves toothed to deeply lobed, at least lower petiolate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescence thyrsoid
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx 5-lobed, lobes subequal or unequal (1/4)
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla strongly 2-lipped, 4-5-lobed, (1-2/3), pink, purple, yellow or white, posterior lip long, hooded, often ± arched, often densely hairy outside, anterior lip with lateral lobes short and broad with 1-2 teeth or triangular-acute, median lobe mostly b
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens not or very shortly exserted from corolla, anthers hairy or glabrous, thecae weakly distinct, bearded or glabrous
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Stigma
- Stigma-lobes subequal or slightly unequal
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Nutlets truncate or subtruncate at apex, glabrous.
- Note
- 2n = (14), 18, 36. Seventeen to c. 30 species. Many authors place the divergent L. galeobdolon (L.) L. in a separate genus, characterized by having glabrous anthers, spiny bracts and calyx lobes, with an acute rather narrow median lobe of the lower lip o
- Ecology
- Mainly disturbed ground, hill slopes and forests
- Distribution
- Temperate regions of Old World, from Europe and Northern Africa to Eastern Asia, introduced to other temperate or mountainous areas in Oceania and America
[FZ]
Illecebraceae, H. Wild. Flora Zambesiaca 1:2. 1961
- Morphology General Habit
- Low shrublet with stiff, erect or suberect branches.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves opposite but appearing as though verticillate; stipules free, scarious.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers in dense, subsessile, axillary cymes.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Receptacle
- Receptacle cupuliform.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Sepals 5, small, free.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Petals 5, minute.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens 1–2, like the perianth-parts perigynous.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Ovary 1-locular with two basal ovules; style filiform, persistent.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology 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.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds with a curved embryo.
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, Kuril Is., Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Manchuria, Mongolia, Morocco, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Netherlands, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Norway, Ogasawara-shoto, Oman, 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, Free State, Georgia, Greenland, Hawaii, Iceland, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Kermadec Is., Labrador, Louisiana, Magadan, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, 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
- Lamium album L.
- Lamium amplexicaule L.
- Lamium bakhtiaricum Jamzad
- Lamium bifidum Cirillo
- Lamium bilgilii Celep
- 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 ponticum Boiss. & Balansa
- Lamium purpureum L.
- Lamium × schroeteri Gams
- Lamium taiwanense S.S.Ying
- Lamium tomentosum Willd.
- Lamium tschorochense A.P.Khokhr.
- Lamium vreemanii A.P.Khokhr.
Lamium L. appears in other Kew resources:
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.
Literature
Lamiaceae Key Genus Fact Sheets
- Galeobdolon Adans., Fam. Pl. 2: 190 (1763).
- Harley RM, Atkins S, Budantsev AL, Cantino PD, Conn BJ, Grayer R, Harley MM, de Kok RPJ, Krestovskaja T, Morales R, Paton AJ, Ryding O, and Upson T. 2004. Labiatae, in The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants (K. Kubitzki, ed. in chief) VI: 167-275. Sp
- Lamiastrum Heist. ex Fabr., Enum.: 51 (1759).
- Lamiella Fourr., Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n.s., 17: 134 (1869).
- Lamiopsis Opiz, Seznam: 56 (1852).
- Lamium L., Sp. Pl. 2: 579 (1753)
- Mennema, Leiden Botanical Series 11: 1-196 (1989).
- Orvala L., Sp. Pl.: 578 (1753).
- Pollichia Schrank, Act. Erford. 3: 35 (1782)., (1781), non Pollichia Aiton.
- Psilopsis Neck., Elem. Bot. 1: 319 (1790), opus utique oppr.
- Wiedemannia Fisch. & C.A.Mey., Index Seminum (LE) 4: 51 (1838).
Flora Zambesiaca
Flora Zambesiaca
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Kew Backbone Distributions
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The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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Lamiaceae Key Genus Fact Sheets
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