Subfamily
III. Subfam. Ajugoideae Kostel. (1834).
Subfam. Teucrioideae (Dumort.) Caruel (1884).
Description
Shrub; leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate, dentate; inflorescence of axillary cymes, lax, grading into terminal, paniculiform thyrse; calyx actinomorphic, slightly accrescent, 5-lobed; corolla pink, zygomorphic, 5-lobed (4/1), posterior lobes ±similar, anterior lobe larger, concave, corolla in bud strongly asymmetrical, corolla-tube slightly upturned near base; stamens 4, didynamous, long-exserted, arched, thecae parallel, separate at dehiscence; pollen 6-pantocolpate, with supratectal spinules; ovary unlobed; stigma-lobes unequal; disc poorly developed to absent; fruit a dry schizocarp, requiring slight pressure to split into nutlets, nutlets reticulately ridged, minutely pubescent and glandular, obovoid, obscurely trigonal, attachment scar as long as nutlet; endosperm absent. One species, Discretitheca nepalensis (Moldenke) P. D. Cantino, Nepal.
Distribution
Native to:
40 Indian Subcontinent
Publication
Discretitheca P. D. Cantino, Syst. Bot. 23: 379 (1999).
Image resource
© Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew