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Leucas eriostoma var. eriostoma
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Family:
LAMIACEAE/LABIATAE
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Citation: Leucas eriostoma Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 686. 1885, var. eriostoma; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1154(806). 1924; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 366. 1988; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 31.1996; V. Singh, Monogr. Indian Leucas 82. 2001; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 654. 2009.
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Description:
Stout, suffruticose undershrubs, to 1 m high; stem and branches 4-gonous, hispid with long spreading hairs, degree of hairiness highly variable. Leaves simple, opposite, 5-10 x 0.5-4 cm, linear, linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, obtuse or acute, narrowed at base to the short petiole, obtusely serrate, hirsute both sides with long spreading hairs, thick, gland-dots inconspicuous; veins 5-7 pairs, very oblique, raised beneath, impressed above. Vericils 1-2.5 cm in diam., terminal and axillary; bracts 7-9 mm long, as long as calyx or longer, linear, plumose or pectinately villous, tips recurved or not. Calyx-tube 5-10 mm long, tubular-campanulate, straight, narrowed above the nutlets, ribbed and hispid in the upper part, glabrous in lower region; mouth truncate; villi present; teeth 10, about 1 mm long, equal, linear-subulate, sparsely hairy, ciliate, erect, not recurved. Corolla-tube included within the calyx, pilose annulate within towards base, hairy outside at the top; lips almost equal, upper one bearded with long white hairs, lower lip 3-lobed and pubescent on outer surface. Anthers glabrous. Nutlets ca 2 mm long, oblong.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
November-March
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District(s):
Kannur, Wayanad
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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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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Brahmagiri, Chandanathode, Teerthundamala
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