Herbs perennial, mostly shiny golden glandular. Stems erect or ascending, ca. 12 cm, much branched, terete, red and purplish, sparsely floccose-puberulent. Petiole 2-3 mm; leaf blade ovate, ca. 7 × 5 mm, adaxially slightly scabrid, base subcuneate, apex slightly obtuse. Verticillasters few flowered, in upper axils; bracts leaflike; bracteoles absent. Pedicel less than 1 mm. Calyx tubular-funnelform, 2.5-3 × 1 mm, purplish, puberulent, throat white villous; teeth ovate-triangular, ca. 1 mm, apex subacute. Corolla gray-violet, 5-7 mm, pubescent; upper lip ovate, ca. 2.5 mm in diam.; lower lip lobes subcircular, ca. 1.5 mm in diam. Nutlets ellipsoid-oblong, less than 0.5 mm, smooth (specimens not seen).
* Taiwan
A little known species described from a cultivated plant.
2.台湾姜味草
Micromeria formosana Marquand in Hook. Icon. Pl. 33: pl. 3230. 1934.
多年生草本,通常高12厘米。茎直立或上升,多分枝,圆柱形,红带紫色,疏生蜷曲微柔毛。茎生叶具柄,柄长2-3毫米,微粗糙,叶片卵形,通常长7毫米,宽5毫米,先端微钝,基部近楔形,上面微粗糙,两面有贴生的腺点。轮伞花序少花,生于茎、枝上部;苞片叶状,小苞片不存在;花梗纤细,长不达1毫米,被微柔毛。花萼管状漏斗形,长2.5-3毫米,喉部宽1毫米,带紫色,外被微柔毛,散布多数金色明亮细小腺点,喉部有白色长毛,萼齿5,卵状三角形,近锐尖,通常长1毫米。花冠灰紫堇色,长5-7毫米,外面被短柔毛,疏布少数金色明亮细小腺点,冠檐二唇形,上唇卵形,径约2.5毫米,2裂,下唇3裂,裂片近圆形,径约1.5毫米。雄蕊4,二强,前对稍短于上唇片,后对几不超出冠筒喉部,花丝无毛,花药2室,室叉开。花柱丝状,长8毫米。花盘平顶。子房浅4裂。小坚果椭圆状长圆形,长几不及0.5毫米,光滑。(标本未见,摘自原描写)
产台湾。模式标本为根据K Yashiroda(no. 13)所采的种子在英国邱园生长的活植物。