Scutellaria altaica Ledeb. ex Sweet

Kamelin (in litt.) believes that this plant is not true Scutellaria altaica, which has a violet corolla, but rather S. irregularis Juzepczuk (Bot. Mater. Gerb. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk SSSR 14: 369. 1951).

Subshrubs perennial, ca. 25 cm tall. Rhizomes woody, to 1 cm in diam., tortuous. Stems numerous, base woody, prostrate to ascending, much branched; branches dark purple, tortuous, sparsely floccose pubescent, glandular. Petiole 3-12 mm, flat, finely pubescent; leaf blade ovate, 1-2 × 0.8-1.2 cm, adaxially sparsely pubescent, abaxially finely appressed pubescent, base broadly cuneate, margin irregularly coarsely 4-6-dentate to crenate, teeth oblong and acute to obtuse, apex acute. Racemes 3-3.5 cm; bracts largest basally, gradually reduced upward, broadly ovate, to 1.6 × 1.2 cm, pubescent, short stipitate glandular along veins and margin outside, apex short acuminate. Pedicel ca. 2 mm. Calyx ca. 3 mm, densely pubescent outside, glandular, to 4 mm in fruit; scutellum ca. 2 mm, to 4 mm in fruit. Corolla yellowish, 2.2-2.5 cm, pubescent outside, glandular; tube saccate-geniculate in front at base, ca. 2 mm wide at basal 1/3, gradually dilated to 6 mm wide at throat; upper lip ca. 5 mm wide; middle lobe of lower lip broadly ovate, ca. 8 mm wide, apex emarginate; lateral lobes ovate, ca. 2 mm wide. Nutlets triquetrous, ovoid, ca. 1.5 × 0.75 mm, abaxially umbonate, densely gray tomentose. Fl. Jul-Aug, fr. Aug.

Xinjiang

* Slopes; 1600-2500 m.

Scutellaria altaicola C. Y. Wu & H. W. Li; S. lupulina Linnaeus var. violacea Bunge.

Scutellaria altaica là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hoa môi. Loài này được Ledeb. ex Sweet miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1823.