• Family : LAMIACEAE
  (Mint Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : TULSI FAMILY (तुलसी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LAMIACEAE
• Basionym : Coleus malabaricus Benth.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Plectranthus malabaricus (Benth.) R.H.Willemse
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : August-December
• Collector(s) Name : C.Saldanha; Raja K. Swamy & Navendu Page; Raja K. Swamy & Noel Sebastian
• Collection Date : 1-10-1967; 1-02-2017; HJCB-1757
• Collection Nos : HFP 444, CJS 11188; HJCB-1757
• Collection Locality : Bisle Ghat (Hassan); Megamalai, Theni district, Tamil Nadu; Devikulam, Idukki, Kerala
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Davanagare district, Hassan district, Shivamogga district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, Dindigul district, The Nilgiri district, Theni district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1987). Flora of Tamilnadu, India vol. 2; Herbarium specimens from- Megamalai, Theni district, Tamil Nadu and Devikulam, 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=Plectranthus malabaricus. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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