Accession Data

Rostrinucula dependens

Common Name: Weeping Rostrinucula

Family: Lamiaceae

Synonym(s): Elsholtzia dependens Rehder, Comanthosphace dependens (Rehder) Bhatti & Ingr.

Country of Origin: China: Guizhou, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan

Description: Plants 1-2 m tall. Branches cylindric, brown, striate, subglabrous, dusty tomentose when young, gray-brown. Petiole 2-6 mm; leaf blade oblong-elliptic to obovate-elliptic, 4-9.5 × 1.3-4 cm, papery, adaxially glabrous, abaxially sparsely stellate, subglabrescent except on veins, with scattered yellow glands, base cuneate or rarely ± cordate, margin irregularly serrate, apex acute to short acuminate. Spikes cylindric, 6-35 × 1.5 cm, densely white stellate-tomentose; verticillasters 6-10-flowered; bracts decussate, 4-6 × ca. 5 mm, apex subacuminate, glabrous or sometimes adaxially sparsely stellate. Calyx teeth triangular-ovate, apex acute. Corolla rose to purple-red, 5-6 mm; tube nearly included, ca. 3 mm, glabrous outside; upper lip circular-ovate, ca. 1 mm; lower lip spreading or erect-patent, middle lobe concave, ca. 2 mm. Nutlets ca. 3 mm; beak recurved, ca. 1.5 mm. Fl. Aug-Oct, fr. Nov.4

Accession Data

USDA Zone: 7a-10b

Accession #: 202000003

Accession Date: 2020-01-23 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 2301

Quantity: 1

Source: Tom Clark - Mt Holyoke BG

Provenance:

Mount Holyoke #20180082 ex Broken Arrow Nursery

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: euasterid I

Order: Lamiales

Family: Lamiaceae

SubFamily: Lamioideae

Tribe: Pogostemoneae

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020

References

  1. WCSP (2019). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Thursday, 23 January, 2020.
  2. Plant Delights Nursery. Last accessed on Thursday, 23 January, 2020.
  3. WFO (2020): Rostrinucula dependens (Rehder) Kudô. Last accessed on Friday, 24 January, 2020.
  4. Flora of China. Last accessed on Friday, 24 January, 2020.

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Rostrinucula dependens