• Family : LAMIACEAE
  (Mint Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : TULSI FAMILY (तुलसी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LAMIACEAE
• Basionym : Plectranthus coetsa Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don
• Synonym(s) : Rabdosia coetsa (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) H.Hara; Plectranthus menthoides Benth.; Plectranthus macraei Benth.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Isodon coetsa (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) Kudo
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands
• Flower, Fruit : October-March
• Collection Nos : KFP 12470
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district
  • Kerala : Idukki district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Alagar Hills (Madurai district), Kolli Hills (Namakkal district), Shevaroy Hills, Kalrayan Hills, Bodamalai Hills (Salem district), Pachamalai Hills (Tiruchirapalli district), Chitteri Hills, Yelagiri Hills (Vellore district), Sirumalai Hills (Dindigul district), Piranmalai Hills (Sivaganga district), Theerthamalai Hills, Dharmapuri Hills (Dharmapuri district), Gingee Hill (Villipuram district), Javadu Hills (Tiruvannamalai district)
• Native : Sri Lanka, Myanmar, India, China
• World Distribution : South Asia
• Literature : Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.; Yoganarasimhan, SN., Subramanyam and Razi, BA (1981). Flora of Chikmagalur District, Karnataka. Intl, Book Distri., Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand, India; Gamble, 1924. Fl. Pres. Madr. Vol. 2. pp. 1121
• 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=Isodon coetsa. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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