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Glechoma

Genus of flowering plants in the sage family

Summary

Genus of flowering plants in the sage family

  • Chamaeclema Moench
  • Glechonion St.-Lag.
  • Chamaecissos Lunell
  • Meehaniopsis Kudô

Glechoma is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described for modern science in 1753. It is distributed in northern Asia and Europe with a center of diversity in Asia, especially China. One species is naturalized in New Zealand and in North America.

These plants are perennial herbs with stolons. The stems are prostrate or upright and bear leaf blades on long petioles. The inflorescences arising from the leaf axils have two to many flowers. The tubular corolla has two lobed lips,

;Species:

  1. Glechoma biondiana (Diels) C.Y.Wu & C.Chen – Gansu, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan
  2. Glechoma grandis (A.Gray) Kuprianova – Japan, Taiwan, Jiangsu
  3. Glechoma hederacea L. – ground-ivy, creeping charlie – much of Europe, much of Russia, Central Asia, Xinjiang; naturalized in New Zealand and North America
  4. Glechoma hirsuta Waldst. & Kit. – eastern and southeastern Europe
  5. Glechoma longituba (Nakai) Kuprian. – Vietnam, Korea, eastern + central China, Russian Far East (Amur, Primorye)
  6. Glechoma × pannonica Borbás – eastern Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Baltic Republics (G. hederacea × G. hirsuta)
  7. Glechoma sardoa Halácsy & Wettst. – Sardinia
  8. Glechoma sinograndis C.Y.Wu – Yunnan

Etymology

Glechoma is said to derive from the Greek name glechon for pennyroyal, Mentha pulegium.

Ecology

Insects found on Glechoma include the carpenter bee Xylocopa sinensis, which robs nectar from G. longituba.

References

References

  1. [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=90035 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
  2. Jang, T. and S. Hong. (2010). [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1759-6831.2010.00101.x/full Comparative pollen morphology of ''Glechoma'' and ''Marmoritis'' (Nepetinae, Lamiaceae).] ''Journal of Systematics and Evolution'' 48(6), 464–73.
  3. [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=113621 Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 118 活血丹属 huo xue dan shu ''Glechoma'' Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 578. 1753. ]
  4. [http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Glechoma%20hederacea.png Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map]
  5. 10.1371/journal.pone.0117171
  6. "Glechoma hederacea, Ground-ivy: identification, distribution, habitat".
  7. Zhang, Y. W., et al. (2007). [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11258-006-9244-y#page-1 Nectar robbing of a carpenter bee and its effects on the reproductive fitness of ''Glechoma longituba'' (Lamiaceae).] ''Plant Ecology'' 193(1), 1–13.
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