异名：Calamintha clinopodium Benth. var. repens (D. Don) Dunn (synonym)、Calamintha repens (D. Don) Benth. (synonym)、Clinopodium kudoi (Hosok.) Mori (synonym)、Melissa repens (D. Don) Benth. (synonym)、Satureja chinensis (Benth.) Briq. var. parviflora Kudo (synonym)、Satureja chinensis (Benth.) Briq. var. repens (D. Don) Kudo (synonym)、Satureja kudoi Hosok. (synonym)、Satureja umbrosa var. repens (D. Don) Briq. (synonym)、Thymus repens Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don (synonym)

Clinopodium repens (D. Don) Wall. (Cat. n. 2130. 1829, nom. nud. ) ex Benth. Pl. Asiat. Rar. 1: 66. 1830; H. W. Li in Act. Phytotax. Sin. 12(2) : 199. 1974 ——Thymus repens D. Don. Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 113. 1825——Clinopodium repens Roxb Hort. Beng. 44. 1814. nom. nud. ; Fl. Ind. 3: 13. 1832, descr. ——Melissa repens Benth. Labiat. Gen. et Sp. 392. 1834——Calamintha repens (D. Don) Benth. in DC. Prodr. 12: 233. 1848; Hand.-Mazz. in Act. Hort. Gothob. 9: 85. 1934; Symb. Sin. 7: 931. 1936——Satureia umbrosa var. repens (D. Don) Briq. in Engl. u. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 4, 3a: 302. 1897; Back. et Bakh. f. Fl. Java 630. 1965——Calamintha clinopodium Benth. var. repens (Benth. ) Dunn in Notes Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 6: 159 1915——Calamintha clinopodium Benth. var. umbrosa sensu Dunn in Notes Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 6: 159. 1915, p. p., non Hook. f. in Thwaites. Enum. 239. 1864 Satureia chinensis Briq. var. a. parviflora Kudo in Mean. Fac. Sci. Agr. Taihoku Univ. 2: 103. 1929, p. p. ——Satureia chinensis Briq. var. repens (D. Don) Kudo, 1. c. 104. 1929——Satureia kudoi Hosokawa in Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Formos. 22: 225. 1932——Clinopodium kudoi (Hosokawa) Mori, Short Fl. Formos. 182. 1936——Calamintha umbrosa auct. non (Bieb. ) Benth. : Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 4: 650. 1885; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26: 284. 1890. excl. syn. p. p.; Diels in Notes Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 7: 344. 1913. p. p. ; Belval in Mus. Heude Notes Bot. Chin. 2: 101. 1933, p. p.; H. Keng in Gard. Bull. Singapore 24: 43. 1969——Clinopodium umbrosa auct. non (Bieb. ) C. Koch: Murata in Act. Phytotax. Geobot. 24: 77. 1969; et in Hara, Fl. E Himal. 272. 1966; in ibid. 2nd Rep. 114. 1971.

多年生柔弱草本。茎匍匐生根，上部上升，弯曲，高约35厘米，四稜形，被疏柔毛，稜上及上部尤密。叶卵圆形，长1-3.5厘米，宽1-2.5厘米，先端锐尖或钝，基部阔楔形至近圆形，边缘在基部以上具向内弯的细锯齿，上面榄绿色，下面略淡，两面疏被短硬毛，侧脉5-7对，与中肋在上面近平坦或微凹陷下面隆起；叶柄长0.5-1.4厘米，向上渐短，近扁平，密被短硬毛。轮伞花序小，近球状，花时径1.2-1.5厘米，果时径1.5-1.8厘米，彼此远隔；苞叶与叶极相似，具短柄，均超过轮伞花序，苞片针状，绿色，长3-5毫米，被白色缘毛及腺微柔毛。花萼管状，长约6毫米，绿色，具13脉，外面被白色缘毛及腺微柔毛，内面无毛，上唇3齿，齿三角形，具尾尖，下唇2齿，先端芒尖。花冠粉红色，长约7毫米，略超出花萼，外面被微柔毛，冠檐二唇形，上唇直伸，先端微缺，下唇3裂。雄蕊及雌蕊均内藏。小坚果近球形，直径约0.8毫米，褐色。花期6-9月，果期10-12月。

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