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Nomenclature

Scutellaria lateriflora L.   Lamiaceae  
Standardized common name (English): skullcap

Botanical Voucher Specimen

Source: MOBOT, Tropicos.org[1]	Source: Botanical Voucher Specimen Library, Alkemists Laboratories[2]

Organoleptic Characteristics

Macroscopic Characteristics

Scutellaria lateriflora is an indigenous, perennial herb, with a stem erect, much branched, quadrangular, smooth, and one or two feet high. The leaves are ovate, acute, dentate, subcordate upon the stem, opposite, and supported upon long petioles. The flowers are small, of a pale blue color, and disposed in long, lateral, 1-sided, leafy racemes. Dried tops are ... about 50 cm. in length, smooth; stem quadrangular, branched; leaves opposite, petiolate, about 5 cm. in length, ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong, serrate; flowers about 6 mm. in length, in axillary one-sided racemes, with a pale blue corolla and bilabiate calyx, closed in fruit, the upper lip helmet-shaped. Source: United States Dispensatory (1918) [4] Source: PlantaPhile[5] Source: PlantaPhile[6]

Microscopic Characteristics

Finger like covering trichome with a warted exine from a section of leaf observed at 400x with Acidified Chloral Hydrate Glycerol Solution. Source: Elan M. Sudberg, Alkemist Laboratories[7]	Long thin walled trichome with circular tip observed at 400x with Acidified Chloral Hydrate Glycerol Solution. Source: Elan M. Sudberg, Alkemist Laboratories[8]

High Performance Thin Layer Chromatographic Identification

Supplementary Information

Sources

1. ↑ MOBOT, Tropicos.org http://www.tropicos.org/Image/100007266
2. ↑ Botanical Voucher Specimen Library, Alkemists Laboratories http://www.alkemist.com
3. ↑ United States Dispensatory (1918)
4. ↑ United States Dispensatory (1918)
5. ↑ PlantaPhile http://plantaphile.com/
6. ↑ PlantaPhile http://plantaphile.com/
7. ↑ Elan M. Sudberg, Alkemist Laboratories http://www.alkemist.com
8. ↑ Elan M. Sudberg, Alkemist Laboratories http://www.alkemist.com