Nepeta hemsleyana Oliver ex Prain

Nepeta L.

Overview
General Description
Plants perennial. Stems erect, ca. 60 cm, finely striate, retrorse floccose-puberulent. Stem leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate, 2-4 cm long,
7-8 mm wide, puberulent, glandular, base broadly cuneate, margin entire or remotely 1-3-serrate, apex acute to obtuse. Verticillasters
axillary, 2-10-flowered, pedunculate; peduncle 2-7 mm long; bracts linear, 5-10 mm long, ca. 1 mm wide, puberulent. Calyx tubular, ca.
1.5 cm long; tube ca. 8 mm tall, incurved, puberulent, conspicuously 15-veined; teeth spiny, posterior teeth triangular, anterior teeth
reflexed, lanceolate-triangular. Corolla blue or purple, 2.5-3 cm long, pilose; tube 2-2.5 cm tall, abruptly dilated beyond calyx; upper lip
straight, ca. 3 mm long, 8 mm wide, lobes to 1.5 mm; lower lip reflexed, ca. 5 mm long, 13 mm wide; middle lobe inversely cordate, base
with triangular pulvinate swelling inside, apex emarginate. Nutlets oblong-ovoid, ca. 3 mm long, 2 mm wide, apex rounded, villous-tufted.
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Ecology and Distribution

Cyclicity
Flowering from July to September; fruiting from September to October.
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Distribution
Nepeta hemsleyana is occurring in Xizang of China.
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Habitat
Growing in grasslands slopes; 4200-4500 m.
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Relevance
Uses
Nepeta hemsleyana used medicinally in Xizang for convulsions.
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Taxonomy
Dracocephalum hemsleyanum (Oliver ex Prain) Prain ex C. Marquand & Airy Shaw (synonym)
Nepeta angustifolia C. Y. Wu (synonym)

Habitat, Shannan, Xizang, China, 2009

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Inflorescences, Shannan, Xizang, China, 2009

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