Classification
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Galeopsis L., Sp. Pl. 579-580 (1753)
 Description

Annual herbs. Lvs simple, toothed. Verticels in dense, terminal and axillary whorls, the uppermost crowded, the lower distant. Bracts resembling, but smaller than, foliage lvs; bracteoles subulate, pungent or spine-tipped. Calyx tubular-campanulate, not gibbous at base, 5-toothed; teeth rather unequal, pungent. Corolla 2-lipped; upper lip hooded; lower lip 3-lobed, with 2 conic projections at base; tube = or much > calyx, straight, with ring of hairs inside. Stamens lying beneath upper lip; anthers ciliate, parallel. Style gynobasic. Nutlets bluntly trigonous.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

 Biostatus
Exotic
Number of species in New Zealand within Galeopsis L.
CategoryNumber
Exotic: Fully Naturalised1
Exotic: Casual1
Total2
 Bibliography
Linnaeus, C. 1753: Species Plantarum. Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm.
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.