• Family : LAMIACEAE
  (Mint Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : TULSI FAMILY (तुलसी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LAMIACEAE
• Basionym : Germanea rotundifolia Poir.
• Synonym(s) : Coleus rotundifolius (Poir.) A.Chev. & Perrot; Coleus parviflorus Benth.; Solenostemon rotundifolius (Poiret) J. K. Morton;
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Plectranthus rotundifolius (Poir.) Spreng.
• Common name : Chinese potato
• Vernacular name : Sambraani-gidde (Kannada); Cheevakizhangu, Koorkakizhangu, Koorka (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Cultivated for its edible tubers
• Key identification features : A perennial fleshy herb with tuberous roots
• Flower, Fruit : September-October
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi district
• Native : Tropical Africa
• World Distribution : Introduced and cultivated elsewhere
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; 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=Plectranthus rotundifolius. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

Botanical Description