Hyptis pectinata
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Description
Erect, perennial, aromatic herb, often shrubby, 0.5-2.5 m.
Leaves herbaceous, ovate or elliptic, 2-3 by 1-1.5 cm, acute or acuminate, base rounded or truncate, entire;
Distribution
American tropics, Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present), Bogor in the Botanic Gardens present, Burma present, Morobe Distr present, New Caledonia present, Pacific: Marianas present, West Java present, area between Bandung and Djakarta present
Native of the American tropics, introduced and naturalized in many other parts of the world, in Malesia: West Java (area between Bandung and Djakarta), New Guinea (Morobe Distr.). Also in Burma, New Caledonia, and the Marianas.
F.-VILLAR recorded this species from the Philippines, but MERRILL doubted this disposition and indeed hitherto no collections are known from there.
In 1888 already BOERLAGE collected it at Bogor in the Botanic Gardens and this was probably the source for the West Javanese establishment.
F.-VILLAR recorded this species from the Philippines, but MERRILL doubted this disposition and indeed hitherto no collections are known from there.
In 1888 already BOERLAGE collected it at Bogor in the Botanic Gardens and this was probably the source for the West Javanese establishment.
Citation
BACK. 1909: Ann. Jard. Bot. Btzg: 404
Koord. 1912 – In: Exk. Fl. Java: 153
HENTY & PRITCHARD 1975: p. 104. – In: Bot. Bull. Lae: fig.
BACK. & BAKH.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 634
MUKERJEE 1940 – In: Rec. Bot. Surv. India: 46
PARHAM 1964: Pl. Fiji: 254
BACK. 1931: Onkr. Suiker.: 567
BTH. 1833: Lab. Gen. Sp.: 127
POIT. 1973: Atlas: t. 538
F.-VILL. 1880: Nov. App.: 164
KENG 1969 – In: Gard. Bull. Sing.: 96
Miq. 1858 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 960
EPLING 1949 – In: Rev. Mus. La Plata n.s.: 268