Prunella (plant)

Inflorescence of small (Prunella vulgaris)

The Brown Ellen ( Prunella, Syn: Brunella Mill, Prunellopsis Kudo ), also called Brunellen, are a genus of the mint family ( Lamiaceae). Note the roll-call of mix-up with the bird genus Ellen Brown ( Prunella ), the equality of both the German and the scientific name is a unique case.

Description

When Prunella species are perennial herbaceous plants that make more or less low, creeping mats of which branch off the flower-bearing shoots erect or ascending. The opposite leaves are broadly constant to oblong- ovate, sometimes lobed.

The usually sechsblütigen Scheinquirle are crowded together at one terminal, clearly separated, ovate to rounded - ovate, thick disc Nourish. The bracts are very broad in shape and often overlap. They are often crowded reddish or purple. In any case, they are significantly different from the normal leaves.

The cup is clearly bilabiate, the upper lip tricuspid, and the bottom is deep bicuspid. Both cup lips are flattened, so that the total tube is likewise cup compressed. The white, pink to purple corolla tube is also double lip. The lower lip is three-lobed, the middle lobe is significantly larger, hollow and at the front edge usually denticulate.

Distribution and habitat requirements

The Prunella species occur in Asia, Europe, North America and around the Mediterranean.

Most species migrate more or less in front of open locations such as grassland, forest edges or a river.

Types (selection)

Depending on Artauffassung the genus Prunella 7 or 13 to 15 species are attributed. In addition, hybrids are often formed.

Also occurring in North and Central Europe species:

• Large-flowered (Prunella grandiflora (L.) Scholler )
• White (Prunella laciniata (L.) L.)
• Small (Prunella vulgaris L.)

Only occur in the Mediterranean region:

• Prunella albanica Pénzes: The home is Albania.
• Prunella cretensis Gand. The home is Crete
• Prunella hastifolia bread. (provided also to P. grandiflora; Syn: P. grandiflora subsp pyrenaica ( Gren. & Godr ) A. & O. Bolos. . )
• Prunella hyssopifolia L., occurs only in Spain, Italy, France, Corsica and Morocco
• Prunella orientalis Bornm. , Arrives in the Middle East, from Turkey to Syria

East Asia

• Prunella asiatica Nakai, in East Asia ( subsp as subspecies. Asiatica ( Nakai ) H. Hara P. vulgaris provided).
• Prunella hispida Benth., In the mountains of southern China and India ( subsp as subspecies. Hispida ( Benth. ) Hultén to P. vulgaris provided).
• Prunella prunelliformis ( Maxim. ) Makino in Japan ( Honshu ).

Swell

• Li Hsi -wen, Ian C. Hedge: Prunella. In Wu Zheng -yi, Peter H. Raven (eds.): Flora of China. Volume 17: Verbenaceae through Solanaceae, Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis in 1994, ISBN 0-915279-24- X, pp. 134-135. (online) (English )