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Family
Classification
Subordinate Taxa
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Teucrium L., Sp. Pl. 562-567 (1753)
Synonymy:
- = Teucridium Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 203 (1853)
Vernacular Name(s):
Bush germander; germander; Wood sage
Description
Perennial, rarely annual, herbs or small shrubs, sometimes rhizomatous. Lvs simple, usually toothed. Bracts leaflike or reduced. Verticels either axillary with 1–3 fls or fls sometimes in terminal heads or spikes. Calyx tubular or campanulate, sometimes gibbous at base, equally 5-toothed, or 2-lipped with unequal teeth. Corolla tube included or exserted, ± curved, usually short, without a ring of hairs inside; limb with lower lip 5-lobed, the terminal lobe much the largest; upper lip 0. Stamens usually long-exserted and curved. Style not gynobasic, its branches equal. Nutlets smooth or reticulate.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]
Biostatus
Exotic
| Category | Number |
|---|---|
| Indigenous (Endemic) | 1 |
| Exotic: Fully Naturalised | 2 |
| Exotic: Casual | 1 |
| Total | 4 |
Bibliography
Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
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.
Moldenke, H.N. 1981: Notes on the genus Teucridium (Verbenaceae). Phytologia 48: 439–444. [as Teucridium Hook.f.]
Salmaki, Y.; Kattari, S.; Heubl, G.; Bräuchler, C. 2016: Phylogeny of non-monophyletic Teucrium (Lamiaceae: Ajugoideae): Implications for character evolution and taxonomy. Taxon 65(4): 805–822.
