Scutellaria japonica
Placement status: name or taxon excluded (unspecific)
Taxonomy
BURMAN recorded this species for Japan and Java. BENTHAM concluded that BURMAN'S description is based on a mixture (in ) which he referred in part to Plectranthus coetsa D.DON and in part to Melissa parviflora BTH.; he stated to have examined the original specimens in the Burman herbarium. However, neither of these two species occurs in either Japan or Java. In MERRILL'S opinion (l.c.) BURMAN'S description was mainly drawn up from the Melissa part. Also, BURMAN could not have had material from the Javanese Plectranthus teysmannii and Melissa axillaris BAKH. f. (with which they might have been confounded) as at BURMAN'S time these mountain plants from the interior of Java were not yet collected.
KOIDZUMI and later OHWI () have accepted BURMAN'S description as the basis of Plectranthus japonicus (THUNB.) KOIDZ.
KOIDZUMI and later OHWI () have accepted BURMAN'S description as the basis of Plectranthus japonicus (THUNB.) KOIDZ.