Herbarium JCB

Leucas lavandulifolia J. E. Sm.

Family : LAMIACEAE
(MINT FAMILY)
Family (as per The Plant List) : Lamiaceae
Species : Leucas lavandulifolia
Synonym : Leucas indica (L.) Vatke
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Leucas lavandulifolia Sm.
Vernacular name : Guma halkusa, Kumbha (Hin.); Thumbe (Kan.); Mosappullu (Tam.); Poola tummi (Tel.); Goiso (Ori.)
Collection Nos : HJCB-0045
Collector(s) Name : K.R.K.Swamy & Arun Singh R.
Collection Date : 13/09/14
Collection Locality : Jamunamarthur, Tiruvannamalai district, Tamil Nadu
Habitat : Open-deciduous forest
Key identification features : An erect annual slender herb up to 70 cm tall. Branches are conspicuously 4-angled and puberulous. Leaves are linear-lanceolate, pale and finely or minutely puberulous, more or less dense beneath. Verticils 2-3, superimposed, and terminal, many-flowered. Bracts about 8 mm long, narrowly linear. Calyx is oblique, with minute spinescent tooth. Corolla white, wooly. Nutlets 2.5 mm long, pale brown, puberulous.
Habit : Herb
Flower, Fruit : Throughout the Year
Comments : Often on hills to 1400 m in a variety of habitats, by wayside, river banks, on shallow exposed slopes by rocks, locally abundant in unweeded farmlands.
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Distribution Locality : Throughout Eastern Ghats
World Distribution : India, Himalaya, Bangladesh, Indo-China, Malesia, Mauritius
Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3 ; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipal, Orissa; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; 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=Leucas lavandulifolia. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.