• Family : LAMIACEAE
  (Mint Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : TULSI FAMILY (तुलसी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LAMIACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Gomphostemma oblongum Wight
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Gomphostemma eriocarpum Benth.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen and moist deciduous forests
• Flower, Fruit : August-January
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Malkangiri
  • Tamil Nadu : Anamalai hills
• Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; Sudhakar Reddy , C and Chiranji Pattanik 2011. Gomphostemma eriocarpum Benth.(Lamiaceae)- A New Record for the Eastern Ghats India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 3(10);2147-2150; 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=Gomphostemma eriocarpum. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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