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Nomenclature
Scutellaria lateriflora L. Lamiaceae
Standardized common name (English): skullcap
Botanical Voucher Specimen
Organoleptic Characteristics
Odor slight; taste slightly bitter.
Source: United States Dispensatory (1918) [3]
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Macroscopic Characteristics
This plant is smooth or with very fine hair on the upper parts with slender, erect or declining, widely branched stems from one-third to 2 1/2 feet high. The thin, slender-stemmed leaves are somewhat lance-shaped or egg-shaped, 1 to 3 inches long, and coarsely toothed. The blue and whitish, tube shaped flowers appear from July to September.
Source: American Medicinal Plants of Commercial Importance (1930) [4]
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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) [5]
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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 [8]
Sources
- ↑ MOBOT, Tropicos.org http://www.tropicos.org/Image/100007266
- ↑ Botanical Voucher Specimen Library, Alkemists Laboratories http://www.alkemist.com
- ↑ United States Dispensatory (1918)
- ↑ American Medicinal Plants of Commercial Importance (1930)
- ↑ United States Dispensatory (1918)
- ↑ PlantaPhile http://plantaphile.com/
- ↑ PlantaPhile http://plantaphile.com/
- ↑ AHPA Known Adulterants http://www.ahpa.org/