• Family : LAMIACEAE
  (Mint Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : TULSI FAMILY (तुलसी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LAMIACEAE
• Basionym : Phlomis zeylanica L.
• Synonym(s) : Leucas zeylanica (L.) W.T.Aiton; Leucas indica (L.) R.Br. ex Sm
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Leucas zeylanica (L.) W.T.Aiton
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands, also in the plains
• Flower, Fruit : May-July
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Sirumalai Hills (Dindigul district), Salem district
• World Distribution : India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Mauritius, Philippines, China
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; 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=Leucas zeylanica var. zeylanica. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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