Subfamily

VII. Subfam. Nepetoideae (Dumort.) Luerss. (1882).

VII. 2. Tribe Mentheae Dumort. (1827).

VII. 2. C. Subtribe Nepetinae Coss. & Germ. (1845).

Description

Annual herbs, not aromatic; leaves simple, petiolate; inflorescence thyrsoid, cymes axillary, long-pedunculate, distant; bracts similar to the leaves; bracteoles subulate to acerose, inconspicuous; calyx markedly oblique-gibbous at base, weakly 2-lipped, 5-lobed (3/2), lobes subequal or anterior lobes slightly longer, triangular, throat ą straight; corolla slightly exceeding calyx, 2-lipped, 5-lobed (2/3), blue-lilac, anterior lip with median lobe concave, margin undulate, tube gradually widening above; stamens with filaments parallel, thecae glabrous, divergent at 180°; stigma-lobes subequal; disc 4-horned; nutlets globose, tuberculate, mucilaginous, areole large, curved. One species, D. sewerzowii (Regel) Pojark. Mountains, W and C Asia.

Distribution

Native to:

32 Middle Asia
34 Western Asia
40 Indian Subcontinent

Publication

Drepanocaryum Pojark., Fl. U.R.S.S., 20: 516 (1954); Budantsev, Bot. Zhurn. 77, 12: 118-128 (1992), rev.

Image resource

Š Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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