Colebrookea oppositifolia J. E. Smith

 
  • Family : LAMIACEAE
  • Family (As per The Plant List) : Lamiaceae
  • Species : Colebrookea oppositifolia
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Colebrookea oppositifolia Sm.
  • Vernacular name : Pansre (Hin.)
  • Collection Nos : HFP 1305, CJS 16249
  • 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 upto 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
  • Comments : Common along the roadsides
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Distribution Locality : Chikamagalur, Dakshina Kannada, Hassan, Kodagu, Mysore, Shimoga, Tumkur, Uttara Kannada, Udupi
  • Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara

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