• 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) : Pogostemon mollis Benth.
• Vernacular name : Thirikkozutthi (Tamil)
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Rocky areas of grasslands
• Comments / notes : Often on hills above 1200m on exposed rocks and bare slopes
• Flower, Fruit : October-February
• Collection Nos : CJS 15499, CJS 15766
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Mysuru district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dindigul district, Kanyakumari district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district, Theni district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; 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.
• 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=Pogostemon mollis. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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