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Pogostemon peethapushpum
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Family:
LAMIACEAE/LABIATAE
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Citation: Pogostemon peethapushpum Pradeep, Candollea 53: 419. 1998.
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Description:
Subshrubs to ca 1.5 m long, stem and branchlets quandrangular, glabrous, often tinged with purple, sometimes rooting from lower nodes. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate, 6-12 x 5-7 cm, ovate, acute to acuminate at apex, truncate at base, margin doubly serrate-dentate, dark green above and pale beneath, subcoriaceous, 3-5-nerved, nerves prominent beneath, glabrescent on lower surface; petiole 5-8 cm long, glabrous. Inflorescence of few flowered axillary cymose panicles, 5-9 cm long; bracts subulate, 6-8 x 1.0-1.5 mm, sparsely hairy, margin entire, apex subobtuse; bracteoles linear, 2-3 mm long, sparsely hairy. Flowers erect; pedicel 1-6 mm long, glabrous. Calyx tubular, 8-10 mm long, tube 5-6 mm long, prominently 6-nerved, glabrous, 5-toothed, teeth 3-4 mm long, subequal, triangular, acuminate, margin hispid. Corolla yellow, funnel-shaped, 8-9 mm long, tube 6 mm long; upper lip 3-lobed, lobes subequal, rotund, 2 x 2 mm, glabrous inside and densely hispid outside; lower lip entire, ovate-lanceolate, 2.5 x 2 mm, subacute at apex, veins conspicuous. Stamens 4, exserted, didynamous, upper ones 17-19 mm long, lower ones 11-13 mm long, densely hairy towards base; anthers yellow, reniform, 1 mm in diameter, unilocular. Disc ca 1 mm long, subentire, glabrous. Ovary 4-partite, 0.5 mm long, oblong, glandular and simple hairy dorsally and apically; style 18-22 mm long, slender, bifid at apex; lobes equal, ca. 1 mm long.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
January-April
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District(s):
Kozhikkode, Kannur
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Wet areas in evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats (Kerala)
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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):
Yellow
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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:
Kerala
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
1500-2000
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Localities:
Vellarimala
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