• Family : LAMIACEAE
  (Mint Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : TULSI FAMILY (तुलसी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LAMIACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Pogostemon deccanensis (Panigrahi) Press; Dysophylla stellata auct. non Lour.; Mentha stellata Buch.-Ham. ex Roxb. 1832, non Lour.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Pogostemon deccanensis (Panigrahi) Press
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Wetlands
• Comments / notes : Common in paddy fields, after harvest
• Key identification features : A branched procumbent herb; spikes up to 6 cm long
• Flower, Fruit : September-April
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Alappuzha district
  • Maharashtra : Satara district, Kolhapur district, Ahmednagar district, Pune district
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi district; Current Science, Vol. 105, No. 1, July 2013; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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=Eusteralis deccanensis. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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