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Leucas rosmarinifolia
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Family:
LAMIACEAE/LABIATAE
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Citation: Leucas rosmarinifolia Benth. in Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. 1: 61. 1830; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 685. 1885; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1152(806). 1924; V. Singh, Monogr. Indian Leucas 134. 2001.
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Description:
Much-branched, low shrubs, 30-60 cm high; stem and branches terete, greenish-grey, woody, strigose or villous with erect hairs. Leaves sessile, apparently fascicled or few opposite, 2-5 x 0.3-0.5 cm, linear, obtuse, entire and revolute-margined, strigose above and on the mid-rib beneath, elsewhere grey-white tomentose with short hairs beneath. Flower-whorls 1 or 2, terminating leafy branches, 1.5-2.5 cm in diam., each subtended by three or a pair of leaves. Bracts 5-7 mm long, linear or linear-oblong, rigid, villous beneath with long erect hairs, long ciliate, pointed at tip, longer or as long as calyx. Calyx-tube sessile, 5-6 mm long, straight, campanulate-turbinate, hispid; mouth truncate; villi 2-3 mm long, white, much longer than teeth; teeth 10, 0.5-1 mm long, triangular, closing over the fruit. Corolla-tube little exserted; upper lip bearded with long white hairs, as long as 3-lobed lower lip. Anthers glabrous. Nutlets 2-3 mm long, obtusely 3-gonous, yellowish brown.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
May-September
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District(s):
Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grasslands
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
White
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
Southern Western Ghats
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