Family | Lamiaceae (alt. Labiatae) |
Subfamily | Pogostemonoideae |
Scientific name | Leucosceptrum srellipilum (Miquel) Kitamura et Murata var. tosaense (Makino) Kitamura et Murata |
Synonyms | Comanthosphace tosaense Koidzumi |
Common name | (Japanese common name) tsukushi-mikaeri-sou (ツクシミカエリソウ, 筑紫見返草 [meaning: Tsukushi look backing weed (Tsukushi = an old name of Fukuoka Prefecture)]), oh-maru-ba-no-ten-nin-sou (オオバノテンニンソウ, 大葉天人草 [meaning: large round leaved angel weed]) |
(English common name) none | |
Distribution | (Japan) Honshu (Chugoku region), Shikoku, Kyushu |
(Other nations) none | |
Habitat | Mountane forest |
Chromosomal number | 2n=46 |
Description | Plants electing 40-100cm tall. Leaves 10-20cm long, 6-12cm wide. Flowers pink corollas 8-10mm long, flowering in September to October. Subshrubs (suffruticose plants). |
Reference | A comparative study in cytological characters of Japanese species of Leucosceptrum, Lamiaceae (Labiatae) |
October 2006 at Tsukuba Botanical Garden |
October 2006 at Tsukuba Botanical Garden |
October 2007 at Tsukuba Botanical Garden |
October 2006 at Tsukuba Botanical Garden |
October 2007 at Nikko Botanical Garden |