Scutellaria indica
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Description
Small herb, usually prostrate, 20-30 cm, often not branched.
Leaves chartaceous, mostly radical, broadly ovate to rounded or reniform, 1.5—2(—3) by 1.5-2 cm, base usually cordate, appressed hirsute on both surfaces, margin crenate;
Flowers in a terminal, raceme-like inflorescence, solitary or occasionally several;
Distribution
Alor present, Asia-Temperate, Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present), Banda present, Central Celebes present, Continental East Asia present, Flores present, Gajo & Batak Lands present, Halmaheira present, Japan present, Lesser Sunda Is present, Masamba present, Mindanao present, Mindoro present, Mt Ipis in Priangan present, N. Sumatra present, Southern America: Argentina Northeast (Formosa present), Sumbawa present, Ternate present, Timor present, W. Java present
Continental East Asia (Indo-China, China, Japan, Formosa, Hongkong) to Malesia: N. Sumatra (Gajo & Batak Lands), W. Java (Mt Ipis in Priangan), Lesser Sunda Is. (Sumbawa, Alor, Flores, Timor), Central Celebes (Masamba), Philippines (Mindanao, Mindoro), Moluccas (Ternate, Halmaheira, Banda), and New Guinea.
Notes
The Papuan specimens tend to have larger and thinner leaves and often the stems are branched, each branch ending in a racemose inflorescence, perhaps representing a distinct form or variety.
Citation
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 409
MANSFELD 1929 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 377
BURM. f. 1768: Fl. Ind.: 130
KENG 1969 – In: Gard. Bull. Sing.: 167
KUDO 1923 – In: Mem. Fac. Sc. & Agr. Taihoku Un.: 255
LINNE 1861: Fl. Hongk.: 278
BTH. 1848 – In: DC., Prod. 12: 417
BACK. & BAKH. f. 1968 – In: Fl. Java: 657
HASSK. 1844: Cat. Hort. Bog.: 132
K.SCH. & LAUT. 1900: Fl. Schutzgeb.: 527