Patchouli

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Patchouli
Indian patchouli (Pogostemon cablin)

Indian patchouli ( Pogostemon cablin )

Systematics
Asterids
Euasterids I
Order : Mint family (Lamiales)
Family : Mint family (Lamiaceae)
Subfamily : Lamioideae
Genre : Patchouli
Scientific name
Pogostemon
Desf.

Patchouli ( Pogostemon ) is a plant genus in the family of the lip bloom plants (Lamiaceae). The 40 to 90 species are widespread in the Paleotropic . Its best-known representatives are Indian and Javanese patchouli , which are used to produce the well-known patchouli fragrance.

The origin of the name patchouli is not entirely certain, but it is assumed that it is derived from the Tamil pachai (green) and ilai (leaf).

description

Illustration by Pogostemon plectranthoides (Syn .: Wensea pyramidata ) from: JC Wendland : Collectio plantarum tam exoticarum, quam indigenarum, cum delineatione, descriptione culturaque earum, Volume 3, Gebrüder Hahn, Hanover 1819.

Vegetative characteristics

In Pogostemon TYPES is annual or perennial herbaceous plants , or half-shrubs . The shoot axes are not hollow. Some Pogostemon species are aquatic plants . The plant parts can be aromatic.

The opposite constantly arranged, or rarely to third to several standing together in whorls leaves are stalked to approximately sessile. The simple, more or less hairy to tomentose-haired leaf blades are ovate to narrowly ovate, rarely linear or sickle-shaped. The leaf margins are serrated to almost smooth.

Generative characteristics

Six to many flowers each stand together in pseudo whorls in terminal, continuous or interrupted, sometimes one-sided, racemose or paniculate total inflorescences . The durable support and deck are linear to ovoid.

The relatively small, hermaphrodite flowers are zygomorphic and five-fold with a double flower envelope . The calyx is egg-shaped-tubular or bell-shaped and ends in five at least almost equal calyx teeth. The white to purple-colored crown is two-lipped, the upper lip is three-lobed and the lower lip is simple and as long or a little longer than the upper lip. The four free stamens are erect and protrude above the corolla; the front pair can be longer. The stamens are hairy purple in the middle. The anthers are spherical. The stylus is split into two roughly equal parts at the end.

The four solitary (partial fruits) Klausen are egg-shaped to spherical, slightly flattened and smooth.

Systematics and distribution

Habit and opposite, simple leaves of Indian patchouli ( Pogostemon cablin )
Pogostemon helferi as an underwater plant
Javanese patchouli ( Pogostemon heyneanus )
Pogostemon stellatus as an underwater plant

The genus Pogostemon was established in 1815 by the French botanist René Louiche Desfontaines in Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle , Tome 2, p. 154. Type species is Pogostemon plectrantoides Desf. The generic name is derived from the Greek terms “pogon” for beard and “stemon” for thread and refers to the hairy stamens. Synonyms for Pogostemon Desf. are: Anuragia Raizada nom. illeg., Chotekia Opiz & Corda , Dysophylla Blume , Dysophylla El Gazzar & L. Watson ex Airy Shaw nom. illeg., Eusteralis Raf. , Wensea J.C. Wendl . The genus Pogostemon includes 40 to 94 species, depending on the author, including the species of the former genera Dolichostemon , Dysophylla Blume and Eusteralis Raf.

The distribution area of ​​the genus Pogostemon includes tropical areas of Asia and Africa .

The following list of around 90 recognized species is based on Rafaël Govaerts et al .: World Checklist of Lamiaceae. 2003:

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literature

  • Xi-wen Li, Ian C. Hedge: Lamiaceae. Pogostemon. In: Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven (Ed.): Flora of China. Volume 17: Verbenaceae through Solanaceae. Science Press and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing and St. Louis 1994, ISBN 0-915279-24-X , pp. 258-261.

Individual evidence

  1. etymonline. Retrieved October 16, 2016 .
  2. a b c d e f g h i Pogostemon at Tropicos.org. In: Flora of Pakistan . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
  3. a b c d e f g h i Xi-wen Li, Ian C. Hedge: Lamiaceae. Pogostemon. In: Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven (Ed.): Flora of China. Volume 17: Verbenaceae through Solanaceae. Science Press and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing and St. Louis 1994, ISBN 0-915279-24-X , pp. 258-261.
  4. ^ René Louiche Desfontaines, scanned in 1815 at biodiversitylibrary.org .
  5. ^ Pogostemon at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, accessed January 4, 2018.
  6. Note on the genus on Heimbiotop.de
  7. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl cm cn co cp cq cr Rafaël Govaerts ( Ed.): Pogostemon. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved December 28, 2018.
  8. a b c Somran Suddee, Alan Paton: Validation of Lamiaceae Names. In: Kew Bulletin. Volume 61, 2006, pp. 619-621. PDF. JSTOR 20443310
  9. ^ Hans-Georg Kramer: Plant aquaristics á la Kramer. Tetra-Verlag, Berlin-Velten 2009, ISBN 978-3-89745-190-2 , p. 216 f.

further reading

  • Gang Yao, Yun-Fei Deng, Xue-Jun Ge: A Taxonomic Revision of Pogostemon (Lamiaceae) From China. In: Phytotaxa. Volume 200, Issue 1, February 2015, pp. 1-67. ISSN  1179-3163 . (abstract)

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