• Family : LAMIACEAE
  (Mint Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : TULSI FAMILY (तुलसी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LAMIACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Anisomeles heyneana Benth.
• Common name : Western Hill Cat-mint
• Vernacular name : Chodara (Hindi); Chandhra (Marathi)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional
• Flower, Fruit : September-December
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district
  • Karnataka : Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Davanagare district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Anisomeles heyneana. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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