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Salvia leucantha
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Family:
LAMIACEAE/LABIATAE
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Citation: Salvia leucantha Cav., Ic. 1: 16, t. 24. 1791; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 665. 2009.
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Malayalam Name(s):
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Mexican Bush Sage
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Description:
Diffuse subshrub; branchlets with deciduous white tomentum. Leaves narrow, oblong-lanceolate, to 9 x 2 cm, base truncate, margin crenate, apex acute, white tomentose below; petiole to 1.3 cm. Racemes to 15 cm; verticils interrupted. Calyx violet to purple, 1 x 0.6 cm, densely woolly without, upper lip entire, lower one equally 2-fid. Corolla white, 1.8 x 0.7 cm wide, throat swollen, limb lanate. Stamens 2; staminodes 0. filaments 4 mm, connectives deflexed, 6 mm, articulate. Ovary 4-celled and lobed; ovule 1 per cell, basal; style 2 cm, pubescent. Nutlets 4, ovoid, compressed.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
November-May
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District(s):
Idukki, Wayanad, Palakkad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grown as garden plant, getting naturalised in the High Ranges
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Distribution:
Native of Tropical America
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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, Purple
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
Yes
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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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