• Family : LAMIACEAE
  (Mint Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : TULSI FAMILY (तुलसी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LAMIACEAE
• Basionym : Ocimum viscosum Roth
• Synonym(s) : Orthosiphon tomentosum Benth.; Ocimum diffusum Benth.; Orthosiphon diffusus (Benth.) Benth.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Endostemon viscosus (Roth) M.R.Ashby
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Scrub jungles and rocky slopes
• Comments / notes : Often grows on well exposed rocks and bare soil in foothills to 1500 m of scrub to deciduous forests.
• Flower, Fruit : July-January
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K.Swamy; K.Sankara Rao, Raja K.Swamy, Arun Singh R & Siddharth
• Collection Date : 19-05-2010; 25-10-2014
• Collection Nos : FAP 39162; HJCB-0058
• Collection Locality : Sunnipenta to Atamkur, Kurnool district (AP); K.P.Dam, Tirumala Hills, Chittoor district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Chittoor district, Kadapa district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district
  • Tamil Nadu : Common
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan district; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District
• 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=Endostemon viscosus. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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