Lamium album var. barbatum




Family Lamiaceae (alt. Labiatae)
Subfamily Lamioideae
Scientific name Lamium album L. var. barbatum (Siebold & Zuccarini) Franchet & Savatier
Synonyms Lamium album L. var. barbatum (Siebold & Zuccarini) Y. S. Kim & S. J. Park; Lamium album L. var. petiolatum Nakai; Lamium album L. var. petiolatyum (Royle) Nakai ex Bentham; Lamium barbatum Siebold & Zuccarini; Lamium barbatum Siebold & Zuccarini var. glabrescens C. Y. Wu & Hsuan; Lamium barbatum Siebold & Zuccarini var. hirsutum C. Y. Wu & Hsuan; Lamium barbatum Siebold & Zuccarini var. rigidum C. Y. Wu & Hsuan; Lamium barbatum sensu Komarov, non Siebold & Zuccarini; Lamium maculatum sensu Maximovicz, non L.; Lamium petiolatum sensu A. Gray, non Royle ex Bentham; Lamium petiolatum sensu Komarov, non Royle ex Bentham; Lamium petiolatum sensu Sugawara, non Royle ex Bentham
Common name (Japanese common name) odoriko-sou (オドリコソウ, 踊子草 [meaning: dancing girls weed])
(English common name) none
Distribution (Japan) Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Okinawa
(Other nations) Korea, China, Russia
Habitat Mountane field
Chromosomal number 2n=18
Description Plants 30-50cm tall. Leaves 5-10cm long, 3-6cm wide. Flowers pink or white corollas 3-3.5cm long, flowering in April to June. Perennial plants.
Reference Lamium barbatum Siebold & Zuccarini
Lamium album L.
Detergent composition containing a quaternary ammonium cationic surfactant and a carboxylate anionic surfactant (US Patent 4919846/1990)
Cosmetics (US Patent 6497889/2002)
Inflammation Inhibitor Comprising Zinc Salt of Acylamino Acid (US Patent 20070099888)
Oral compositions (European Patent EP0321180/1992)
Note Many non-Asian authors describe that Lamium barbatum Siebold & Zuccarini is a synonym of Lamium album L. (syn. Lamium album L. var. brachyodon Bordzilowski; Lamium archangelica Garsault; Lamium brachyodon (Bordzilowski) Kuprian; Lamium capitatum Smith; Lamium dumeticola Klokov; Lamium niveum hort. ex Reichenbach, non Schrader; Lamium parietariaefolium Bentham; Lamium petiolatum Royle ex Bentham).



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