Herbarium JCB

Leucas biflora (Vahl) R.Br.

Family : LAMIACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Lamiaceae
Species : Leucas biflora
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Leucas biflora (Vahl) R.Br. ex Sm.
Collection Nos : KFP 13563
Key identification features : Slender procumbent pubescent herbs with a woody root-stock. Stem is terete, pubescent with deflexed hairs. Leaves are ovate, elliptic-oblong, pubescent on both surfaces, glands are conspicuous beneath, slightly truncate to rounded, margin crenate-dentate, crenate-serrate. Verticils 1-4 flowered lax, arranged axillary. Bracts are setaceous, calyx is 8.5 mm long, mouth straight, 10-12 toothed and ribbed, glandular, hispid on the outer surface, especially on the surface. Corolla tube, as long as the calyx, annulate within. Nutlets are truncate at apex, tuberculate, brown.
Habit : Herb
Comments : Common in forests
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Distribution Locality : Belgaum, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Gulbarga, Kodagu, Mysore, Shimoga, Udupi, Uttara Kannada
Floras referred : Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara