7234.000 Scutellaria L.

Description of the genus

Perennial herb (in ours). Inflorescence racemose; bracts leaf-like, often smaller towards the apex of the inflorescence; whorls 2-flowered. Calyx pouch-shaped, 2-lipped; lips equal in length, entire, broad, rounded, the upper bearing a transverse protruding outgrowth and finally deciduous, the lower persistent. Corolla 2-lipped. Stamens 4, ascending under the upper lip. Nutlets tuberculate or variously sculptured.

Worldwide: c. 350 species, cosmopolitan.

Burundi: 1 taxon.

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Species		Content
schweinfurthii Briq. subsp. paucifolia (Baker) A.J.Paton

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