- Family : LAMIACEAE
(MINT FAMILY)
- Family (as per The Plant List) : Lamiaceae
- Species : Plectranthus mollis
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Plectranthus mollis (Aiton) Spreng.
- Key identification features : An erect herb with fleshy stem and branches up to 80 cm tall, puberulous, stem is thick and fleshy, tumid below the nodes. Leaves are chartaceous, ovate, pubescent beneath, glabrous above, lateral nerves 3-5 pairs. Flowers are in few-flowered cymes, bracts are ovate, 3.5 cm long. Calyx 3 mm long, glabrous within, 2-lipped. Upper lip is broadly ovate, lower lip lobes are lanceolate. Corolla pale lilac, or light blue, tube is gibbous, decurved about the middle. 4-lobed with lobes being shallow. Nutlets are subglobose, reddish-brown, dotted with brown spots, smooth and about 1.5 mm across.
- Habit : Herb
- Flower, Fruit : September-February
- Comments : Occasional on hills above 1000 m, gregarious by village wastelands, roadsides among rocks on exposed slopes, locally abundant and in shade.
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Distribution Locality : Throughout Eastern Ghats
- World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Himalaya
- 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; 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=Plectranthus mollis. Downloaded on 29 June 2024.
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