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Colebrookea oppositifolia Sm.
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"Large shrubs; stem and leaves densely tomentose. Leaves to 20 x 6 cm, elliptic, acuminate, crenulate, base acute to acuminate, nerves ca.10 pairs, oblique. Spikes to 10 x 0.5 cm, panicled, terminal, densely hairy. Flowers in close whorls; calyx 1.5 mm long; tube very short, densely white-hairy, lobes subulate; corolla 2 mm long, equally 4-lobed; stamens 4, exserted in male flowers, included in female flowers, filaments glabrous; style 2-fid at tip. Nutlets hairy at apex; fruiting calyx larger."
Habit: Shrub
Colebrookea ternifolia Roxburgh; Elsholtzia oppositi-folia (Smith) Poiret.
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Semi-evergreen and evergreen forests
Savanna forests, thickets in hot, dry regions; 200-2200 m.
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* Hills, grassy areas; 2800-3300 m.
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"Notes: Western Ghats & Eastern Ghats, Moist Deciduous Forests"
Flowering and fruiting: January-May
Flowering class: Dicot Habit: Shrub