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Lamium Bifidum
''Lamium bifidum'' is a species of flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae, native to the Southern Europe. It was first described by botany, botanist Domenico Cirillo in 1788. Description ''Lamium bifidum'' is an annual plant, annual herbaceous plant. It possesses an erect or decumbent stem, white flowers and a deeply bifid lower lip. Flowers form in verticillasters of 20 or more flowers. These flowers are sometimes cleistogamy, cleistogamous. An analysis of the essential oil of ''Lamium bifidum'' bracts and leaves identified the highest constituents as germacrene D (34.9%), β-caryophyllene (11.5%) and Humulene, α-Humulene (6.8%). This contrasted with the primary constituents identified in the flowers: myrcene (47.2%), β-caryophyllene (11.8%) and sabinene (11.0%). The species possesses a chromosome count of 2n = 18. Taxonomy Domenic Cirillo first described ''Lamium bifidum'' in his ''Plantarum Rariorum Regni Neapolitani'', published in 1788. John Isaac Briquet's 1897 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domenico Cirillo
Domenico Maria Leone Cirillo FRS (Grumo Nevano, Kingdom of Naples 10 April 1739Naples 29 October 1799) was an Italian physician, entomologist, botanist and patriot. Professional life Appointed while still young to a botanical professorship, Cirillo went for some years to England, where he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society, and to France. On his return to Naples he was appointed to the chair of medical practice and afterwards to the chair of theoretical medicine. He wrote copiously on scientific subjects and had practiced medicine extensively. He was the teacher of the future military doctor Antonio Savaresi. Cirillo's favorite study was botany. He was known as an entomologist by Linnaeus. He wrote many books in Latin and Italian, all of them treatises on medical and scientific subjects. The is a philosophical pamphlet remarkable for both its learning and style. He introduced many medical innovations to Naples, particularly inoculation against smallpox. As well as sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
