Hyptis suaveolens (L.) Poit.
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
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Family
Lamiaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Erect herb or subshrub to 1.5 m tall, usually many-branched from base; stem obtusely 4-angled, hollow, pilose, becoming glabrous. Leaf blades 1.3-8 x 1.2-5 cm, ovate, chartaceous, aromatic, pubescent, the apex obtuse or rounded, the base rounded to subcordate, the margins serrate; petioles 0.5-4 cm long. Flowers short-pedicellate, in axillary racemes or terminal panicles; peduncle 4.5-5.5 mm long; bracts filiform, ca. 2 mm long; calyx green, bell-shaped, with 10 prominent ribs, 9-10 x 4-4.5 mm long, whitish-pilose, with a few glandular hairs, the lobes bristle-like, 2-3 mm long, with numerous hairs between lobes; corolla light violet, 6.5-8 mm long, pubescent externally; stamens not exsert Nutlets 2, 4-4.5 mm long, oblong, beaked, flattened, blackish, rugulose.
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Distribution
A common weed of disturbed, open ground. Johnson Bay (A4027), Lameshur (B503). Also on St. Croix, St. Thomas, Tortola, and Virgin Gorda; throughout tropical America, naturalized in the Old World.
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