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1. Galeobdolon chinense (Bentham) C. Y. Wu, Acta Phytotax. Sin.  10: 157.  1965.  
小野芝麻 xiao ye zhi ma 
 
 
 
 
Lamium chinense Bentham, Prodr. 12: 512. 1848. 
Herbs annual. Roots sometimes tuberlike. Stems 10-60 cm tall, densely tawny tomentose. Petiole 0.5-1.5 cm; leaf blade ovate or ovate-oblong to broadly lanceolate, 1.5-12 × 1.1-6 cm, herbaceous, base broadly cuneate, apex obtuse to acute. Verticillasters 2-4-flowered; bracts linear, ca. 6 mm, early deciduous. Calyx tubular-campanulate, ca. 1.5 × 0.7 cm, densely tomentose; teeth lanceolate, 4-6 mm, apex awned-acuminate. Corolla ca. 2.1 cm, white villous; upper lip ca. 1.1 cm, obovate, base attenuate, lower lip ca. 8 × 9 mm, lateral lobes similar to middle lobe, subcircular. Filaments glabrous; anthers purple, glabrous. Style apex unequally 2-cleft. Nutlets obovoid, ca. 2.1 × 0.9 mm, apex truncate. Fl. Mar-May, fr. Jul-Aug. 
 
 
 
* Sparse forests, hillsides; 100-300 m. Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Taiwan, Zhejiang 
 
 
 
 
 
                         
		
                          
                          
			
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  | 1 | Leaves 4-12 × 3-6 cm; corolla white |  | 1b var. robustum |  
  | + | Leaves less than 4 × 2.2 cm; corolla reddish. |  | (2) |  
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  | 2 (1) | Leaves rhombic, coarsely crenate, sparsely  appressed minutely hispid |  | 1c var. subglabrum |  
  | + | Leaves ovate or ovate-oblong to  broadly lanceolate, crenate-serrate,  adaxially appressed ciliate,  abaxially tawny tomentose |  | 1a var. chinense |  |  
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