A revision of Gomphostemma (Lamiaceae)
Author
Bongcheewin, Bhanubong
Author
Ingrouille, Martin J.
Author
Paton, Alan J.
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Kew Bulletin
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12225-021-09991-y
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23.
Gomphostemma hemsleyanum
Prain ex Collett & Hemsl
.
(
Hemsley 1890: 116
);
Prain (1891: 230)
;
Mukercee (1920: 205)
.
Type: Burma, Meiktila [20.8665°, 93.8665°], Sept. 1888,
Collett
885 (CAL [CAL0000020312] photo, lectotype selected here; isolectotype K [K000826320]). (Another syntype,
Collet
15, has not been seen.)
Herb up to 0.6 m tall.
Stems
erect, obtusely quadrangular with longitudinal grooves, with dense stellate hairs and sometimes dendroid hairs.
Leaoes
subsessile, chartaceous; blades elliptic or elliptic-ovate, 2 – 13 × 1 – 5 cm, apex acute, margin deeply crenate or serrate, base attenuate; upper side dark green with bifurcate hairs, 1 – 2 (– 3)-celled simple hairs and sometimes stellate hairs; lower side pale green with dense stellate hairs; petiole 0 – 10 mm long.
Inflorescence
axillary with opposite cymes sessile, congested with axis not visible between flowers, inserted at the upper nodes at which leaves are usually present; verticils fewflowered; bracts elliptic or elliptic-obovate, 10 – 13 × 3 – 6 mm, upper side with simple hairs, lower side with dense stellate hairs; bracteoles narrowly ovate, 3 – 8 × 0.3 – 1 mm.
Flowering calyx
infundibular, 8 – 12 mm long, 10-ridged, outside with dense stellate hairs, inside with adpressed simple hairs; tube 3 mm long; lobes triangular, 3 – 5 mm long, apex acute.
Fruiting calyx
ovate-infundibular, 11 – 18 mm long, outside with dense stellate hairs, inside with adpressed simple hairs; tube 3 – 5 mm long; lobes triangular, 6 – 11 mm long, 3 – 2 mm wide at base, apex acute.
Corolla
10 – 13 mm long, throat narrow, gradually dilated towards the throat, outside glabrous, inside with an annulus of simple hairs; tube slender, incurved, 3 – 5 mm long, included in calyx.
Staminal filaments
fleshy.
Style
slightly fleshy, linear with apex unequally lobed.
Nutlets
2, ellipticoblong or elliptic, 3 – 2 × 2 – 3 mm long, wrinkled.
DISTRIBUTION.
Burma.
Map 5
.
SPECIMENS EXAMINED.
MYANMAR. Meiktila, Sept. 1888,
Collett
885 (lectotype CAL photo; isolectotype K).
HABITAT.
In mountain areas.
CONSERVATION STATUS.
Known only from the type collection made in September 1888. Hence, the?ata?eficient (??) category is applied to this species.
PHENOLOGY
. Flowering and fruiting September.
NOTES.
Gomphostemma hemsleyanum
is recognised by having an axillary inflorescence, no soft hairs on leaves and is found in North Burma
Keng (1969)
recognised a specimen,
3acker
8221 (BO), from East Java as
Gomphostemma hemsleyanum
probably by comparing the specimen with an illustration [
Ann. Roy. 3ot. Gard.
(
Calcutta
) 3 (1891), plate 82] from Prain’ s revision (1891). Unfortunately, this collection has not been examined.
The epithet
hemsleyanum
is dedicated to Mr W. B. Hemsley who assisted Prain preparing a revision of
Gomphostemma
(
Prain 1891
)
.