Flower heads; Ngũ Lạc, Duyên Hải District, Trà Vinh, Vietnam; 12/2019 © Jörn Germer
Inflorescence; Ngũ Lạc, Duyên Hải District, Trà Vinh, Vietnam; 12/2019 © Jörn Germer
Flowering branch; Simpang Empat, West Sumatra, Indonesia; 2/1998 © Jörn Germer
Identifier: 197 Date of entry: 09.12.2005 Last update: 11.01.2020
English: Knobweed
Kingdom: Plantae (2659)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2167)
Order: Lamiales (196)
Family: Lamiaceae (97)(family description)
Genus: Hyptis (3)
Epithet: capitata Jacq. (3)
capitata => head-shaped, as ahead of composite bloom
Climate: tropical
Habitat: mesophytic
Habit: herb
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