Scutellaria discolor var. discolor
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Description
Small herbs, usually 20-50(-100) cm.
Leaves membranaceous, broadly elliptic to rounded, rarely ovate, 4-6(-11) by 2.5-5(-10) cm, sometimes smaller, obtuse or rounded, base often rounded to cordate, margin coarsely crenate, glabrescent or sparsely pubescent on both surfaces;
Flowers in simple terminal raceme-like inflorescences 10-15 cm long;
Distribution
Alor present, Ambon present, Asia-Temperate: China South-Central (Yunnan present), Asia-Tropical: Assam (Assam present); Jawa (Jawa present ‒ present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines absent); Sulawesi (Sulawesi absent); Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present), Bawean I present, Burma present, Ceram present, Continental SE. Asia present, Deccan present, Flores present, Kangean present, Lesser Sunda Is present, Lombok present, Nepal present, SW. China present, Sumba present, Sumbawa present, Timor present, Wetar present
Continental SE. Asia (from the Deccan to Assam, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Indo-China, and SW. China: Yunnan), widely spread in Malesia: Malay Peninsula, Java, Bawean I., Lesser Sunda Is. (Kangean, Lombok, Flores, Sumba, Sumbawa, Alor, Wetar, Timor), Moluccas (Ceram, Ambon), and New Guinea.
It is peculiar that this species is not found in several large islands (Celebes, Philippines). The single record of Sumatra by KORTHALS specimens named by MIQUEL S. heteropoda var. grandis (KENG, l.c. 166) is almost certainly mislocalized and came from Java where other similar specimens of KORTHALS had their provenance.
It is peculiar that this species is not found in several large islands (Celebes, Philippines). The single record of Sumatra by KORTHALS specimens named by MIQUEL S. heteropoda var. grandis (KENG, l.c. 166) is almost certainly mislocalized and came from Java where other similar specimens of KORTHALS had their provenance.
Notes
A wide-ranging, rather variable species. Early collected and described Indian specimens were rather tiny herbs usually less than 30 cm, with rounded or reniform leaves c. 1.5-2 cm and few-flowered terminal inflorescence. Malesian specimens are generally taller with elliptic to rounded, larger leaves c. 4.5-6 by 3.5-5 cm and many-flowered terminal and upper-axillary inflorescences.
According to MIQUEL (l.c. 973) the bracts, calyx, and corolla are glandular-pilose.
S. zollingeriana I have here referred to the type variety.
According to MIQUEL (l.c. 973) the bracts, calyx, and corolla are glandular-pilose.
S. zollingeriana I have here referred to the type variety.