SCUTELLARIAL. - SKULLCAP
Scientific Description:
Perennial herbs, often suffrutescent at base, ± lacking aromatic odour. Leaves usually petiolate, at least below. Inflorescence a raceme or a spike; flowers arising singly in axils of bracts or floral leaves, on very short pedicels, secund or not. Calyx bilabiate, tube ventricose-campanulate, upper part with a rounded, scale-like appendage (scutellum); lips entire, closed in fruit, lower part persistent, upper deciduous along with scutellum. Corolla with very long suberect sigmoid tube, dilated above, bilabiate, upper lip galeate, lower broader, flat to recurved. Stamens 4, anthers included under hood, ciliate, lower pair longer, monothecous, upper pair with 2 divergent thecae. Style unequally bifid. Nutlets depressed-globose to broadly ellipsoid, often tuberculate, ± pubescent with stellate hairs.
Reference:
Edmondson JR (1982). Scutellaria L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 7: 78−79.
Public Description:
Scutellaria, commonly known as “skullcap”, is native to temperate regions. There are approximately 468 species in the world and 17 species (40 taxa) in Türkiye. The generic name is derived from the Latin “scutella” meaning “a small dish, tray or platter”, referring to the shape of the calyx. They are perennial herbs and few are subshrubs, some are aquatic plants.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2018). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutellaria, Accessed date: 06.02.2018.
Anonymous 2 (2018). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Lamiaceae/Scutellaria/,Accessed date: 06.02.2018.
Anonymous 3 (2018). https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/search/?q=SCUTELLARIA, Accessed date: 06.02.2018.
Çiçek M (2012).Scutellaria L., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 582–585.
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