• 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) : Unresolved name
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Hill slopes, shola and Evergreen forests, also in grasslands
• Comments / notes : Occasional on hills above 1200m, on slopes and shola floor, wayside on thickets and as a colonizer on new roads.
• Flower, Fruit : September-May
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh, Navendu Page & K. Sankara Rao
• Collection Date : 25/03/2016
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0659
• Collection Locality : Semmadu, Kolli Hills, Namakkal district (TN)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district
  • Karnataka : Kolar district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : Alagar Hills (Madurai district), Kolli Hills (Namakkal district), Shevaroy Hills (Salem district), Kalrayan Hills (Salem district), Pachamalai Hills (Tiruchirapalli district), Bodamalai Hills (Salem district), Chitteri Hills (Vellore district), Sirumalai Hills (Dindigul district), Yelagiri Hills (Vellore district), Dharmapuri Hills (Dharmapuri district), Piranmalai Hills (Sivaganga district), Theerthamalai Hills (Dharmapuri district), Gingee Hill (Villipuram district), Javadu Hills (Tiruvannamalai district)
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; 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=Teucrium tomentosum. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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