• Family : LAMIACEAE
• Family (As per The Plant List) : Lamiaceae
• Species : Leucas eriostoma
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Leucas eriostoma Hook.f.
• Collection Nos : CJS 12468, CJS 17994, KFP 13894
• Key identification features : An average-sized undershrub. Branches are pubescent, quadrangular, hispid. Leaves are linear-lanceolate, hirsute, thick, gland-dotted, base narrowed, serrate with an obtuse apex. Lateral nerves about 5-7 pairs, oblique, impressed above, raised beneath; petiole is very short. Verticils are about 1-2 cm in diameter, terminal, linear and plumose. Calyx tube about 5-10 mm long, tubular-campanulate, straight, with about 10 teeth, all are equal. Corolla white, included in the calyx, upper lip bearded and is equal with the lower lip, which is 3-lobed and pubescent on the outer surface.
• Habit : Undershrub
• Comments : Common in the inland palaeau along roadsides and in wastelands
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Distribution Locality : Chikamagalur, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Hassan, Kodagu, Kolar, Mysore, Tumkur, Udupi
• Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara

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