- Family : LAMIACEAE
(Mint Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : TULSI FAMILY (तुलसी फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : LAMIACEAE
- Basionym : Clinopodium martinicense Jacq.
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Leucas martinicensis (Jacq.) R.Br.
- Common name : WhiteWort
- Vernacular name : Perumthumbai (Tamil); Karimthumba (Malayalam)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Near moist places in deciduous forests
- Comments / notes : Occasional on hills above 800m in moist places, abundant in wastelands, fallow fields and a weed of cultivation.
- Flower, Fruit : November-March
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy; Raja K. Swamy & Noel Sebastian
- Collection Date : 13/12/2014; 25-11-2018
- Collection Nos : HJCB-E-384; HJCB-1825
- Collection Locality : Batrepalli, Nigidi forest, Anantapur (AP); Marayoor, Idukki district, Kerala
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, Kurnool district, Vishakapatnam district
- Karnataka : Ballari district
- Kerala : Idukki district
- Maharashtra : Akola district
- Odisha : Koraput district
- Tamil Nadu : Namakkal district, Tiruchirapalli district
- Native : Paleotropics
- World Distribution : Pantropical
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; 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; Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India; Herbarium specimen from Marayoor, Idukki district, Kerala
- 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=Leucas martinicensis. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.
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