- Family : LAMIACEAE
(MINT FAMILY)
- Family (as per The Plant List) : Lamiaceae
- Species : Colebrookea oppositifolia
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Colebrookea oppositifolia Sm.
- Vernacular name : Pansre (Hin.)
- Key identification features : A functionally dioecious, much branched shrub. Bark greyish-brown. Most parts are tomentose. Leaves are coriaceous, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, glabrous above and pubescent beneath, margin crenulate, nerves up to 15 pairs, ascending and prominent. Flowers are in dense bracteate, pedunculate, trichotomous spikes arranged in panicles. Calyx is 5-lobed, covered with minute hairs. Corolla white with a short tube. Limb 2 3-lobed. Upper emarginate, lower one subequal. Stamens 4, exerted in male flowers. Nutlets are oblong-obovoid, pubescent and often solitary, villous at apex.
- Habit : Shrub
- Flower, Fruit : January-May
- Comments : On higher hills, in shola floor and bordering the evergreen patches.
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Distribution Locality : Kolli Hills (Namakkal district) (Tamil Nadu State); Visakhapatnam district, Kurnool district (Andhra Pradesh State); Ganjam district (Odisha State)
- World Distribution : India, Himalaya, Myanmar, South-West China, Indo-China
- Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3 ; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipal, Orissa; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Arun Singh R., Deepak Kumar, Raja K Swamy and Navendu Page (2016). Digital Flora of Eastern Ghats. http://easternghats.ces.iisc.ernet.in/plants.php?name=Colebrookea oppositifolia. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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