Elsholtzia kachinensis Prain

Young shoots edible.

Herbs slender, diffuse, 10-40 cm tall. Stems prostrate, villous, rooting adventitiously at base. Petiole 3-15 mm; leaf blade ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 1-3.5 × 0.5-2 cm, herba-ceous, sparsely fine pilose, adaxially puberulent on midrib, base broadly cuneate, margin crenate-serrate above base, apex acute to obtuse. Spikes ovoid in flower, 1.5-2.5 × to 2 cm, cylindric in fruit; verticillasters dense, pilose, secund, 4-6 flowered; bracts broadly ovate, 3-4 × 4-5 mm, adaxially glabrous, margin entire, ciliate, apex subulate-mucronate. Pedicel ca. 0.5 mm. Calyx tubular, ca. 1.5 mm, pilose, glandular outside; teeth subequal, lanceolate-triangular, nearly as long as calyx tube, apex spinescent. Corolla white to purple, ca. 7 mm, pilose outside, glabrous inside, throat ca. 2 mm wide; upper lip emarginate; lower lip ± patent, middle lobe entire or emarginate; lateral lobes semicircular, margin entire. Stamens much exserted. Style ca. as long as stamens. Nutlets chestnut brown, oblong, pubescent. Fl. and fr. Oct-Dec.

Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan [Myanmar]

Riverbanks, forests, valleys, wet areas; 1200-2800 m.

Elshotzia kachinensis var. petiolata Sun ex C. H. Hu.

Elsholtzia kachinensis là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hoa môi. Loài này được Prain mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1904.

水香薷（学名：Elsholtzia kachinensis）为唇形科香薷属下的一个种。