• Family : LAMIACEAE
  (Mint Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : TULSI FAMILY (तुलसी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LAMIACEAE
• Basionym : Phlomis nepetifolia L.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Leonotis nepetifolia (L.) R.Br.
• Vernacular name : Grantiparni (Sanskrit); Dipmal, Matisul (Marathi)
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Deciduous forests, wastelands, river banks and roadsides
• Flower, Fruit : November-March
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Throughout Andhra Pradesh
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Ballari district, Chikkamagaluru district, Davanagare district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Kolar district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Odisha : Throughout Odisha
  • Tamil Nadu : Throughout Tamil Nadu
• Native : Tropical Africa
• World Distribution : Naturalized in tropics
• 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; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; 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 District; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India.
• 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=Leonotis nepetifolia. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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