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Anisomeles malabarica
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Family:
LAMIACEAE/LABIATAE
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Citation: Anisomeles malabarica (L.) R. Br. ex Sims., Bot. Mag. 46: t. 2071. 1819; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1140(797). 1924; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 673. 1885; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 362. 1988; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 373. 1990; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 289. 1995; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 649. 2009.
Nepeta malabarica L., Mant. Pl. 2: 566. 1771.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Karimthumba, Karithumba
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Malabar catmint
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Description:
Perennial, semi-shrubby herb; stem to about 2 m high, much branched from base, subquadrangular, thickened below to 1.8 cm in diam., densely lanate. Leaves ovate-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 3.6-16 x 1.3-7 cm, narrowed and rounded at base, acute, crenate-serrate, slightly bullate and velvety lanate above, densely so beneath; petioles 0.7-3.5 cm long, stout, lanate. Racemes to 34.5 cm long; verticils close, dense; peduncles densely lanate. Floral leaves 8-10 mm long, densely lanate. Bracts linear, to 5 mm long. Calyx to 9 mm long; tube to 5 mm long, lanate without, glabrous within; lobes lanceolate, to 4 mm long, acuminate. Corolla 1.4-2 cm long; tube to 9 mm long, white, glabrous without; throat pilose towards base of lower lip; Upper lip oblong, 4-6 mm long, obtuse at apex, slightly arched, whitish; lower lip to 1 cm across, coral pink, with 2 white streaks towards base, pilulose without with gland-tipped hairs, the lateral lobes shallowly rounded, the median one larger, broadly orbicular, 2-fid. Style glabrous; branches linear, unequal. Nutlets ovoid, 2.5 x 1.5 mm, trigonous, glabrous, blackish-brown and shining.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
November-December
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District(s):
Palakkad, Kannur, Kollam, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Dry deciduous forests and scrub jungles
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Distribution:
Indo-Malesia to Australia
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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):
Violet
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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:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Elangad, Malampuzha canal bund, Ariankavu
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