Inflorescence; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 9/2009 © Jingxin Liu
Flowers; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 9/2009 © Jingxin Liu
Inflorescence, close-up; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 9/2009 © Jingxin Liu
Identifier: 1536
Date of entry: 23.01.2011
Last update: 11.01.2020
Kingdom: Plantae (2603)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2500)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2115)
Order: Lamiales (171)
Family: Lamiaceae (93)(family description)
Genus: Teucrium (3)
Epithet: quadrifarium Buchanan-Hamilton ex D. Don (1)
Synonym: Teucrium fortunei Benth.
fortunei => named after Robert Fortune (1813-1880), Scottish horticulturist and palm collector in China
quadrifarium => in four parts or ranks
Climate: tropical
Habit: herb, shrub
Flower colour: purple, violet