• Family : LAMIACEAE
  (Mint Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : TULSI FAMILY (तुलसी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LAMIACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Scutellaria violacea var. sikkimensis Hook.f.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Scutellaria violacea B.Heyne ex Benth.
• Vernacular name : Malainangai (Tamil)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Margins of Evergreen forests and grasslands. Also on the floor of sholas
• Comments / notes : Often on hills above 1200m
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, East Godavari district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Sirumalai Hills (Dindigul district), Dharmapuri Hills (Dharmapuri district)
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Himalayas, Sri Lanka, Nepal
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; Sankar,R.V., R. Kottaimuthu & K. Ravikumar (2009). Additions to the flora of Sirumalai Hills, Eastern Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 1(7): 379-381; 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=Scutellaria violacea. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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