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Accession Data:

Rostrinucula dependens (Rehder) Kudô

  • Common Name: Weeping Rostrinucula
  • Family: Lamiaceae Lindl.
  • Synonym(s): Elsholtzia dependens Rehder, Comanthosphace dependens (Rehder) Bhatti & Ingr.

  • Country of Origin: China: Guizhou, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan

  • Description: Plants 1-2 m tall. Branches cylindric, brown, striate, subglabrous, dusty tomentose when young, gray-brown. Petiole 2-6 mm; leaf blade oblong-elliptic to ovate), and broadly tapering to each end; wider than oblanceolate.">obovate-elliptic, 4-9.5 × 1.3-4 cm, papery, adaxially glabrous, abaxially sparsely stellate, subglabrescent except on veins, with scattered yellow glands, base cuneate or rarely ± cordate, margin irregularly serrate, apex acute to short acuminate. Spikes cylindric, 6-35 × 1.5 cm, densely white stellate-tomentose; verticillasters 6-10-flowered; bracts decussate, 4-6 × ca. 5 mm, apex subacuminate, glabrous or sometimes adaxially sparsely stellate. Calyx teeth triangular-ovate, apex acute. Corolla rose to purple-red, 5-6 mm; tube nearly included, ca. 3 mm, glabrous outside; upper lip circular-ovate, ca. 1 mm; lower lip spreading or erect-patent, middle lobe concave, ca. 2 mm. Nutlets ca. 3 mm; beak recurved, ca. 1.5 mm. Fl. Aug-Oct, fr. Nov.4
  • USDA Zone: 7a-10b

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 202000003
  • Source: Tom Clark - Mt Holyoke BG
  • Provenance:
    Seeds of JC Raulston Arboretum 180540 2022 G
    
  • Accession Date: 01-23-2020
  • Bench: 2301 - Temperate Asia
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 2 confirmed on 01-29-2025

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: euasterid I
  • Order: Lamiales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Lamiaceae
  • SubFamily: Lamioideae
  • Tribe: Pogostemoneae
  • SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020

References (internal):

  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: China South-Central / China North-Central

References (external):

  1. WCSP (2019). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Thursday, 23 January, 2020.
  2. Plant Delights Nursery. Last accessed on Thursday, 23 January, 2020.
  3. WFO (2020): Rostrinucula dependens (Rehder) Kudô. Last accessed on Friday, 24 January, 2020.
  4. Flora of China. Last accessed on Friday, 24 January, 2020.

data regenerated on Tue, 25 Mar 2025 13:34:13 -0400 [bcm v4.0]

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Subfamily Lamioideae
Tribe Pogostemoneae

  • Pogostemon cablin
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Subfamily Lamioideae
Tribe Stachydeae

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Tribe Mentheae

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  • Prunellinae: Prunella grandiflora
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Subfamily Nepetoideae
Tribe Ocimeae

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Subfamily Prostantheroideae
Tribe Westringieae

  • Prostanthera rotundifolia
  • Westringia fruticosa

Subfamily Scutellarioideae

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  • Scutellaria alpina
  • Scutellaria argentata
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  • Scutellaria purpurascens subsp. verecunda W/C
  • Scutellaria tuberosa W/C

Subfamily Symphorematoideae

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Subfamily Viticoideae

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  • Vitex agnus-castus
W/C = Wild Collected
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