Scutellaria lateriflora (flower)
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| + | | description=''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. | ||
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| + | 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.}} | ||
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Revision as of 19:03, 7 April 2015
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Nomenclature
Scutellaria lateriflora L. Lamiaceae
Standardized common name (English): skullcap
Botanical Voucher Specimen
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Organoleptic Characteristics
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Macroscopic Characteristics
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Microscopic Characteristics
High Performance Thin Layer Chromatographic Identification
Supplementary Information
Skullcap (flowering parts) (Scutellaria lateriflora)
General Characteristics AHPA recommends in its Known Adulterants list that appropriate steps be taken to assure that this raw material is free of the noted adulterant. Contact AHPA for additional information regarding relevant analytical methods or follow this link for more information.
Reported Adulterants Germander (Teucrium chamaedrys) flowering parts.
Source: AHPA Known Adulterants [5]
Sources
- ↑ MOBOT, Tropicos.org http://www.tropicos.org/Image/100007266
- ↑ Botanical Voucher Specimen Library, Alkemists Laboratories http://www.alkemist.com
- ↑ United States Dispensatory (1918)
- ↑ United States Dispensatory (1918)
- ↑ AHPA Known Adulterants http://www.ahpa.org/
