Pogostemon wightii Benth.

 
  • 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 wightii Benth.
  • Habit : Undershrub
  • Habitat : Shola forests
  • Flower, Fruit : December-January
  • Distribution :
    • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district
    • Kerala : Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
    • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dindigul district, The Nilgiri district, Theni district
  • Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
  • World Distribution : India
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature : Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1987). Flora of Tamilnadu, India vol. 2.
  • 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 wightii. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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