Teucrium chowii Y.H.Tong & N.H.Xia, 2018

Tong, Yihua, Chen, Fenglin, Ran, Jingcheng, Bai, Lin & Xia, Nianhe, 2018, Teucrium chowii Y. H. Tong & N. H. Xia, a new name to replace T. integrifolium C. Y. Wu & S. Chow, Phytotaxa 349 (1), pp. 99-100 : 99

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.349.1.14
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C50987D7-FFDB-801A-F4EA-D001FD4CB4DC
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Teucrium chowii Y.H.Tong & N.H.Xia
status	nom. nov.

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Teucrium chowii Y.H.Tong & N.H.Xia View in CoL , nom. nov.

Replaced name:— Teucrium integrifolium C.Y.Wu & S.Chow in Chow (1965: 344), non T. integrifolium Bentham (1870: 133) .

Type:— CHINA. Guizhou: Shibing Couty, Maxi Xiang, Guanping River, river valley, under broadleaved forests, 14 July 1959, South Guizhou Expedition 2781 ( holotype PE barcode 00031124!, isotypes PE barcode 00784861!, KUN barcode 1219090!).

Notes:— Teucrium chowii is a rare species endemic to Guizhou Province, China. This species is used as a traditional Chinese medicine to treat sword wounds and stop bleeding by the local people (Chen et al. 2000). Chow (1965) assigned it to Teucrium sect. Pleurobotrys Hemsley (1890: 311) , for it has 2-flowered verticillasters, conspicuously 2- lipped calyx with pilose annulate throat, and stamens twice as long as corolla tube. Teucrium chowii is closely related to T. bidentatum Hemsley (1890: 312) , but the former has subsessile leaves with entire margin and longer corolla ( 1.2 cm) with hairy lip center, while the latter has petioles 5–9 mm long, leaf blade margin of apical half 3–4-serrate and shorter corolla ( 1 cm) with glabrous lip center ( Chow 1965).