Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Herb
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Coleus caninus (Roth) Vatke |
| synonym | Majana canina (Roth) Kuntze |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Profusely branched herbs, clothed with soft hairs. Leaves to 3 x 2.5 cm, obovate, crenate, pubescent below, fleshy; petiole to 1 cm. Spikes terminal, to 7 cm, tomentose, bracts 8 x 5 mm, ovate, mucronate, punctuate with red glands, deciduous; calyx pubescent out side, upper orbicular, ciliate, the lower 4 toothed, 2 mm; corolla tube 5 mm, lower lip 5 mm, blue; staminal tube 8 mm; style 1.5 cm, stigma bifid.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Habit: Herb
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Dry Deciduous Forests, Plains, Dry Localities, Endemic to Peninsular India
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Dry deciduous forests
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Description
Maharashtra: Nasik, Thane
Karnataka: Chikmagalur,Hassan, Mysore
Kerala: Idukki
Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore, Dharmapuri, Dindigul, Nilgiri, Salem, Theni, Viluppuram
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Global Distribution
Peninsular India
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Idukki
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
References
- Plectranthus caninus Roth, Nov. Pl. Sp. 279. 1821
- Coleus spicatus Benth. in Wall., Pl. Asiat. Rar. 2: 15. 1830; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 624. 1885; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1123(786). 1924; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 247. 1999.
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987; Matthew 1983
Information Listing > References
- Plectranthus caninus Roth, Nov. Pl. Sp. 279. 1821
- Coleus spicatus Benth. in Wall., Pl. Asiat. Rar. 2: 15. 1830; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 624. 1885; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1123(786). 1924; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 247. 1999.
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987; Matthew 1983
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Lamiales |
| Family | Lamiaceae |
| Genus | Plectranthus |
| Species | Plectranthus caninus Roth |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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