Nepeta hemsleyana Oliv. ex Prain

Used medicinally in Xizang for convulsions.

Plants perennial. Stems erect, ca. 60 cm, finely striate, retrorse floccose-puberulent. Stem leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate, 2-4 cm × 7-8 mm, 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; bracts linear, 5-10 × ca. 1 mm, puberulent. Calyx tubular, ca. 1.5 cm; tube ca. 8 mm, incurved, puberulent, conspicuously 15-veined; teeth spiny, posterior teeth triangular, anterior teeth reflexed, lanceolate-triangular. Corolla blue or purple, 2.5-3 cm, pilose; tube 2-2.5 cm, abruptly dilated beyond calyx; upper lip straight, ca. 3 × 8 mm, lobes to 1.5 mm; lower lip reflexed, ca. 5 × 13 mm; middle lobe inversely cordate, base with triangular pulvinate swelling inside, apex emarginate. Nutlets oblong-ovoid, ca. 3 × 2 mm, apex rounded, villous-tufted. Fl. Jul-Sep, fr. Sep-Oct.

Xizang

* Grassy slopes; 4200-4500 m.

Dracocephalum hemsleyanum (Oliver ex Prain) Prain ex C. Marquand & Airy Shaw; Nepeta angustifolia C. Y. Wu.

Flowering from July to September; fruiting from September to October.

Nepeta hemsleyana is occurring in Xizang of China.

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.

Growing in grasslands slopes; 4200-4500 m.

Nepeta hemsleyana used medicinally in Xizang for convulsions.

Nepeta hemsleyana là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hoa môi. Loài này được Oliv. ex Prain mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1890.