Leucosceptrum canum Sm.

 
  • Family : LAMIACEAE
    (Mint Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : TULSI FAMILY (तुलसी फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Lamiaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Clerodendrum leucosceptrum D.Don; Teucrium leucosceptrum (D.Don) Voigt; Comanthosphace nepalensis Kitam. & Murata; Teucrium macrostachyum Wall. ex Benth.
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Leucosceptrum canum Sm.
  • Habit : Shrub
  • Comments / notes : Planted in gardens
  • Key identification features : Shrubs or small tress; branches stout, terete, densely or laxly white tomentose or wooly, rarely glabrous. Leaves glabrous above, densely tomentose beneath, with white or greyish or brown tomentum, rarely green and glabrous; petiole densely tomentose. Flowers in terminal spikes; calyx campanulate, decurved, hoary or tomentose, teeth short, rounded.
  • Flower, Fruit : October- March
  • Distribution :
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Lohit district,Dibang Valley district, Changlang, Kameng, Siang
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Bangladesh, China, Bhutan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Bangladesh, China, Bhutan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
  • Literature :
    • N.P. Singh, P. Lakshminarasimhan, S. Karthikeyan & P. V. Prasanna (2001). Flora of Maharashtra state, Dicotyledones. Vol. 2. pp.764. Botanical survey of India, Govt. Of India.
    • G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 286
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Leucosceptrum canum. Downloaded on 11 October 2024.

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