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Holmskioldia is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is native to the Himalayas (India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar) but widely cultivated as an ornamental and naturalized in many places (Southeast Asia, New Caledonia, Hawaii, Mexico, West Indies, Venezuela, etc.) It contains only one known species, Holmskioldia sanguinea, commonly called the Chinese hat plant, cup-and-saucer-plant or '''mandarin's hat.'''

Species

Chinese Hat Plant

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderLamiales
  5. FamilyLamiaceae
Native toAssam, East Himalaya, India, Myanmar, Nepal, West Himalaya
Observations2,642

冬红(学名:Holmskioldia sanguinea)为马鞭草科冬红属下的唯一一个种,原產於喜馬拉雅山脈,但作為觀賞植物移植、擴散到了世界上的許多國家。

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
84
With media
49
Family
Lamiaceae
Collections
YPM, UCMP, USNM, SFV, UEL, ESALQ
Recorded in
United States, Costa Rica, Brasil, Mozambique

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Holmskioldia is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is native to the Himalayas (India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar) but widely cultivated as an ornamental and naturalized in many places (Southeast Asia, New Caledonia, Hawaii, Mexico, West Indies, Venezuela, etc.) It contains only one known species, Holmskioldia sanguinea, commonly called the Chinese hat plant, cup-and-saucer-plant or '''mandarin's hat.'

The genus name commemorates Johan Theodor Holmskiold (1731–1793), a Danish botanist who wrote , published in two volumes in 1790 and 1799.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Holmskioldia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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