• 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 purpurascens Dalzell
• Vernacular name : Poothachida (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist deciduous and semi-Evergreen forests, also in plains
• Comments / notes : Not common
• Key identification features : An erect branched herb; stems and branches softly hairy with spreading hairs
• Flower, Fruit : October-January
• Collection Nos : CJS 12535, KFP 5374
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi district, Hassan district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Southwest India
• World Distribution : South West India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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 purpurascens. Downloaded on 4 April 2025.

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