• Family : LAMIACEAE
  (Mint Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : TULSI FAMILY (तुलसी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LAMIACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Orthosiphon pallidus Royle ex Benth.
• Habit : Undershrub
• Comments / notes : Common
• Flower, Fruit : August-December
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy & Noel Sebastian
• Collection Date : 25-11-2018; 23-11-2018
• Collection Nos : HJCB-1837; HJCB-1744
• Collection Locality : Chinnar, Idukki district, Kerala; Theni district, Tamil Nadu
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, East Godavari district, Guntur district
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Chitradurga district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Kolar district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Mayurbhanj district, Gajapati district
  • Tamil Nadu : Theni district
• World Distribution : India, Balochistan, Bangladesh
• 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; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 – Mysore; Herbarium specimen from - Chinnar, Idukki district, Kerala and Theni district, Tamil Nadu.
• 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=Orthosiphon pallidus. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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