Herbarium JCB

Teucrium tomentosum Heyne ex Benth.

Family : LAMIACEAE
(MINT FAMILY)
Family (as per The Plant List) : Lamiaceae
Species : Teucrium tomentosum
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved
Collection Nos : HJCB-0659
Collector(s) Name : K.R.K.Swamy, Arun Singh R., Navendu Page & K.Sankara Rao
Collection Date : 25/03/16
Collection Locality : Semmedu, Kolli Hills, Namakkal district, Tamil Nadu State
Habitat : Evergreen forest
Key identification features : A pubescent shrubs, branchlets are quadrangular, grooved, densely pubescent. Leaves are chartaceous, ovate-elliptic, densely tomentose beneath. Racemes are in close panicles, axillary and terminal, densly villous, peduncle up to 6 cm long, bracts are leafy, lanceolate. Calyx 5-lobed, unequal, 5.5 mm, ciliate. Corolla white, tinged with pink lips. Nutlets are erect, globose, laterally attached and granulate.
Habit : Undershrub
Flower, Fruit : November-March
Native : India
Comments : Occasional on hills above 1200 m, on slopes and shola floor, wayside on thickets and as a colonizer on new roads.
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Distribution Locality : Kolar district (Karnataka State); Kolli Hills (Namakkal district) (Tamil Nadu State); Horsley Hills (Chittoor district) (Andhra Pradesh State)
World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; 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=Teucrium tomentosum. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.