匍匐风轮菜 pu fu feng lun cai

Thymus repens Buchanan-Hamilton ex D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 113. 1825; Calamintha clinopodium Bentham var. repens (Buchanan-Hamilton ex D. Don) Dunn; Calamintha repens (Buchanan-Hamilton ex D. Don) Bentham; Clinopodium kudoi (Hosokawa) Mori; Melissa repens (Buchanan-Hamilton ex D. Don) Bentham; Satureja chinensis Briquet var. parviflora Kudo; S. chinensis Briquet var. repens (Buchanan-Hamilton ex D. Don) Kudo; S. kudoi Hosokawa; S. umbrosa var. repens (Buchanan-Hamilton ex D. Don) Briquet.

Stems trailing, ascending, ca. 35 cm, pilose, angles and upper part densely so. Petiole 5-14 mm; leaf blade ovate, 1-3.5 × 1-2.5 cm, sparsely minutely hispid, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margin incurved-serrate, apex acute to obtuse. Verticillasters subglobose, 1.2-1.5 cm in diam., 1.5-1.8 cm in fruit, widely spaced; floral leaves longer than verticillasters; bracts needlelike, 3-5 mm. Calyx ca. 6 mm, white ciliate, glandular puberulent; upper teeth triangular, caudate; lower teeth awned. Corolla rose, ca. 7 mm, slightly longer than calyx, puberulent. Nutlets subglobose, ca. 0.8 mm in diam. Fl. Jun-Sep, fr. Oct-Dec.

Hillsides, grasslands, streamsides, forests; 0-3300 m. Fujian, Gansu, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Japan, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka].