Dracocephalum

Turkish scorpionfish ( Dracocephalum moldavica )

The dragon heads ( Dracocephalum ) are a genus of flowering plants in the mint family ( Lamiaceae). They appear mainly in Asia.

Description

Rockfish are mostly perennial, rarely annual herbaceous plants. The stem is erect or decumbent. The oppositely arranged leaves are constantly stalked at the base of long, above they are stalked or sessile, pinnate and entire.

The Scheinquirle are arranged in dense heads or spikes, or further apart. The bracts are usually sharp and spiky cut or rarely entire. The cup is Roehrig Roehrig or bell-like, strongly or slightly curved, 15 - veined, double lip and pentadentate. The teeth are almost the same, sometimes the center tooth of the upper lip is wider than the adjacent teeth. The edge of the notches between the teeth is thickened. The crown is colored two-lipped and blue- purple, pink, violet or rarely white. At the base it is constricted and dilated at the throat. The upper lip is thick or slightly bent. The lower lip is three-lobed, the middle lobe is the largest. Four stamens present, of which the two rear longer than the two front. The anthers are hairy or bald rare. The tip of the stylus is divided into two evenly.

The nutlets are oblong, smooth, and sometimes sticky.

Dissemination

The genus Dracocephalum occurs mainly in alpine and semi-arid regions of the temperate Asia; next to it are some species native to Europe and one each in North America and North Africa. In China, there are about 35 species.

System

The first publication of the genus Dracocephalum was in 1753 by Linnaeus in Species Plantarum, Volume 2, pages 594-596. Type species is L. Dracocephalum moldavica. Synonyms for Dracocephalum L. are Cephaloma Neck., Nom. inval. , Dracontocephalium Hassk. , Fedtschenkiella Kudr. , moldavica Fabr, Ruyschia Fabr and ruyschiana million.

The genus belongs to the Dracocephalum Nepetinae subtribes of the tribe Mentheae in the subfamily Nepetoideae within the mint family ( Lamiaceae). Closely related is the genus Nepeta L..

The genus includes about 70 species Dracocephalum (selection):

  • Dracocephalum aitchisonii Rech.f.: The home is the eastern Afghanistan and possibly Pakistan.
  • Argun -Dragon Head ( Dracocephalum argunense fish ex Link. ): The distribution area extends from southern Siberia in Russia over the northern and central China to the Korean Peninsula and Japan.
  • Dracocephalum aucheri Boiss. ( Syn: . Dracocephalum botryoides Boiss & Buhse, Nepeta lagopsioides Parsa, Teucrium palmatum Nabelek, nom illeg. . ): The home is located in the south-eastern Turkey and Iran.
  • Austrian scorpionfish ( Dracocephalum austriacum L.): He's in the hot temperate Europe located in the Pyrenees and the Alps to the western Ukraine and in the Caucasus and the north-eastern Turkey.
  • Dracocephalum bipinnatum Rupr. (Syn. Dracocephalum bipinnatum var biflorum CYWu, Dracocephalum bipinnatum var brevilobum CYWu & WTWang, Dracocephalum ruprechtianum rule Dracocephalum ruprechtii rule): It is widely used by Pakistan, Afghanistan and across Central Asia to western Himalayas in the north-western China.
  • Caucasian dragon head ( Dracocephalum botryoides Steven ): It is native to the Caucasus.
  • Dracocephalum breviflorum Turill: The home is the Chinese Autonomous Region of Tibet.
  • Pot-bellied dragon head ( Forrest ex Diels Dracocephalum bullatum ): The home is the southwestern province of Yunnan in China.
  • Dracocephalum butkovii Krassovsk. , The home is the Central Asian Uzbekistan.
  • Dracocephalum calophyllum Hand. - Mazz. (Syn. Dracocephalum forrestii var calophyllum ( Hand. - Mazz ) Kudo. ): The home is the southwestern provinces of Sichuan and Yunnan in China.
  • Dracocephalum charkeviczii Prob. The home is located in the Russian Primorye Federal District Far East.
  • Dracocephalum discolor Bunge ( Syn: Dracocephalum origanoides Ledeb. ): The home of the Russian Republics of Altai and Tuva in southwestern Siberia and Mongolia.
  • Dracocephalum diversifolium Rupr. The home is Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in Central Asia.
  • Dracocephalum ferganicum Lazkov: The home is the Central Asian Kyrgyzstan.
  • Dracocephalum foetidum Bunge ( Syn: Dracocephalum moldavicum var foetidum ( Bunge) PAlib. ): The home is the south-eastern Siberia.
  • Dracocephalum formosum Gontsch. , The home is the Central Asian Tajikistan.
  • Forrest -Dragon Head ( Dracocephalum forrestii WWSm. ): It is located in southwest China's Yunnan Province.
  • Dracocephalum fragile Turcz. ex Benth, (syn.: ruyschiana fragilis ( Turcz. ex Benth ) House. ): . The home extends from southwestern Siberia to Mongolia.
  • Dracocephalum fruticulosum Stephan: The home is the south-western Siberia, Mongolia and the northern provinces of Inner Mongolia and Ningxia in China.
  • Large-flowered scorpionfish ( Dracocephalum grandiflorum L.): The home is southern Siberia, Central Asia, the Chinese Autonomous Region of Xinjiang and Mongolia.
  • Dracocephalum heterophyllum Benth (syn. Dracocephalum acanthoides Edgew ex Benth, Dracocephalum kaschgaricum Rupr, Dracocephalum pamiricum Briqu, ruyschiana heterophylla ( Benth. ) House.. .. ): The distribution area extends from Afghanistan and Pakistan over the Himalayan region, central Asia, southern Siberia and China to Mongolia.
  • Dracocephalum hoboksarensis GJLiu: The home is the Chinese Autonomous Region of Xinjiang.
  • Dracocephalum hookeri CBClarke (often granted species status and not as a synonym of Dracocephalum tanguticum Maxim considered. ): It is native of the western Himalayas region of Nepal and in large parts of China.
  • Dracocephalum imberbe Bunge. ( Syn: . Dracocephalum albertii rule Dracocephalum altaiense Hiltebr, nom illeg, Dracocephalum altajense L., nom illeg, Dracocephalum crenatifolium Franch, Dracocephalum laniflorum Rupr, ruyschiana imberbis ( Bunge) House.. .. .. ): The home is Central Asia, northwestern China and Russia.
  • Dracocephalum imbricatum CYWu & WTWang: The home is the Yunnan Province in southwestern China.
  • Dracocephalum integrifolium Bunge ( Syn: ruyschiana integrifolia ( Bunge) House): It is common in Central Asia, Russia and the north-western China.
  • Isabell -Dragon Head ( Dracocephalum isabellae Forrest ): It is located in southwest China's Yunnan Province.
  • Dracocephalum jacutense Peschkova: The home is the Russian Republic of Sakha in Siberia.
  • Dracocephalum junatovii ALBudantsev: The home is Mongolia.
  • Dracocephalum kafiristanicum Bornm. ( Syn: Fedtschenkiella kafiristanica ( Bornm. ) Kudr. ): The home is the eastern Afghanistan.
  • Dracocephalum komarovii Lipsky: The home is located with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in central Asia.
  • Dracocephalum kotschyi Boiss. ( Syn: Dracocephalum oligadenium Bornm & Gauba. ): The home is Iran.
  • Dracocephalum krylovii Lipsky: The home is located in western Siberia.
  • Dracocephalum lindbergii Rech.f.: The home is the north-eastern Afghanistan.
  • Dracocephalum longipedicellatum Muschl. The home is Thailand.
  • Dracocephalum microflorum CYWu & WTWang: The home is the Chinese province of Sichuan.
  • Turkish scorpionfish ( Dracocephalum moldavica L.): Its wide range extends from Europe to Central Asia and Russia to the majority of the northern half of China.
  • Dracocephalum multicaule Montbret & divers ex Benth. ( Syn: . Dracocephalum setigerum Boiss & A.Huet, Dracocephalum multicaule var setigerum ( Boiss. & A. Huet ) JREdm, Stachys odoratissima Nabelek. ): The home is the eastern Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus region.
  • Dracocephalum multicolor Kom: The home is the Primorye in the extreme southeast of Russia.
  • Dracocephalum nuratavicum Adylov: The home is Uzbekistan in central Asia.
  • Dracocephalum nodulosum Rupr. The home is located in the Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, as well as in northwest China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region.
  • Dracocephalum nutans L.: He's in Europe, Central Asia, located in northern China, Russia, Pakistan and India.
  • Dracocephalum oblongifolium rule: The home is Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in central Asia.
  • Dracocephalum olchonense Peschkova: The home is the Irkutsk Oblast in southern Siberia.
  • Dracocephalum origanoides Stephan ( Syn: ruyschiana origanoides ( Steph. ex Willd ) House. ): The home is central Asia, northwestern China, the southwestern Siberia and Mongolia.
  • Dracocephalum palmatoides CYWu & WTWang: The home is Xinjiang in northwestern China.
  • Dracocephalum palmatum Steph. ex Willd. ( Syn: Dracocephalum schelechowii Turcz ex Ledeb, ruyschiana palmata ( Steph. ex Willd ) House.. . ): The home ranges of Sacha in eastern Siberia on the Khabarovsk and Magadan Oblast in the Russian Far East.
  • Dracocephalum parviflorum Nutt. ( Syn: moldavica parviflora ( Nutt. ) Britton, ruyschiana parviflora ( Nutt. ) House): The species is native to North America.
  • Dracocephalum paulsenii Briq. It is common in Pakistan, Central Asia and northwestern China.
  • Foreign -like dragon head ( Dracocephalum peregrinum L.): It occurs in southwestern Siberia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in northwestern China.
  • Dracocephalum pinnatum L. ( syn.. Dracocephalum pinnatifidum Lam, ruyschiana pinnata (L.) House): The home is southern Siberia and Mongolia.
  • Dracocephalum polychaetum Bornm. : The home is the southern Iran.
  • Dracocephalum popovii TVEgorova & Sipliv. , The home is the Irkutsk Oblast and the Republic of Sakha in East Siberia.
  • Dracocephalum propinquum WWSm. , The home is the south-central Sichuan and Yunnan provinces in China.
  • Dracocephalum psammophilum CYWu & WTWang: The home is the north central province of Ningxia in China.
  • Dracocephalum purdomii WWSm. , The home is the central Chinese provinces of Gansu and Sichuan.
  • Moroccan scorpionfish ( Dracocephalum renati Emb ): The home is Morocco.
  • Dracocephalum rigidulum Hand. - Mazz. , The home is the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in China.
  • Rock scorpionfish ( Dracocephalum rupestre Hance ): The home is Inner Mongolia, Manchuria and Qinghai Province in China.
  • Nordic dragon head ( Dracocephalum ruyschiana L.): He is, Mongolia and northern parts of China, located in Europe, Central Asia, Russia.
  • Dracocephalum schischkinii Strizhova: The home is Tajikistan in central Asia.
  • Dracocephalum scrobiculatum rule: The home of the Central Asian states, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
  • Dracocephalum spinulosum Popov: The home is the eastern Uzbekistan in central Asia.
  • Dracocephalum stamineum Kar & Kir. ( Syn: Dracocephalum pulchellum Briquet, Fedtschenkiella staminea ( Kar & Kir ) Kudr. . ): The home is the western China, Central Asia, Pakistan and India.
  • Dracocephalum stellerianum Hiltebr. ( Syn: Dracocephalum chamaedrifolium Turcz, Dracocephalum hypopolium ( Kharkev. ) Prob. . ): The home is the Russian Republic of Sakha, the Khabarovsk region of eastern Siberia and the Primorsky Krai in the Russian Far East.
  • Dracocephalum subcapitatum ( Kuntze ) Lipsky: The home is Iran and Turkmenistan in the west to central Asia.
  • Dracocephalum surmandinum Rech.f.: The home is the western Iran.
  • Dracocephalum taliense Forrest: The home is the south-central province of Yunnan in China.
  • Dracocephalum tanguticum Maxim. ( Syn: Dracocephalum hookeri CBClarke ex Hook.f. ): The distribution area extends from the Himalayan region to China.
  • Thymianblütiger scorpionfish ( Dracocephalum thymiflorum L.): The original distribution area extends in Europe from the Baltic states and northern Russia south to Bulgaria, the Ukraine and in the Caucasus region.
  • Dracocephalum truncatum YZSun ex CYWu: The home is the north central Gansu province in China.
  • Dracocephalum velutinum CYWu & WTWang: The home is the south-central province of Yunnan in China.
  • Dracocephalum wallichii Sealy ( Syn: Dracocephalum calanthum CYWu, Dracocephalum speciosum Wall ex Benth, ruyschiana wallichii House.. ): The range extends from the western Himalayan region of Tibet to in the south-central China.
  • Dracocephalum wendelboi Hedge: The home is Afghanistan.

Use

Some species of rockfish are used as ornamental plants.

Swell

Xi -wen Li & Ian C. Hedge: Lamiaceae Lindley. In: Wu Zheng -yi and Peter H. Raven (eds.): Flora of China. Verbenaceae through Solanaceae. 17, Science Press, inter alia, Beijing, inter alia, 1994, ISBN 0-915279-24- X, Dracocephalum Linnaeus, S. 124 (text identical with printed work, online). (Section Description and dissemination )

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