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Leucas aspera (Willd.) Link
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Global Distribution
Indo-Malesia
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: All Districts
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Many veterinary medicines prepared from the leaves.
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"Found along roadsides and fallow fields from plains to 400m. Common. India, Bangladesh, Indo-China and Malesia."
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Maharashtra: Common throughout Karnataka: Mysore Tamil Nadu: All districts
Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan [India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand].
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Flower
In terminal or axillary verticils; white. Flowering from November-February.
Fruit
A subtrigonous nutlet, erect, basilar. Fruiting throughout the year.
Field tips
The stem hispid or scabrid, quadrangular.
Leaf Arrangement
Opposite-decussate or whorled
Leaf Type
Simple
Leaf Shape
Linear-lanceolate
Leaf Apex
Acute
Leaf Base
Cuneate
Leaf Margin
Entire-serrate
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Herbs annual, 20-40 cm tall. Stems hispid. Petiole short to obsolete, densely hispid; leaf blade linear or oblong-linear, 2.5-6 × 0.8-1.5 cm, strigose especially on veins abaxially, base cuneate-decurrent, margin sparsely crenate or sometimes subentire, apex obtuse, lateral veins ca. 3 pairs. Verticillasters globose, 2-2.5(-3) cm in diam., many flowered, densely hispid; bracts linear, as long as calyx, margin hispid ciliate, apex slightly spinescent. Calyx tubular, ca. 1 cm, slightly constricted at apex, slightly hispid or subglabrous at base, otherwise densely hispid outside; mouth oblique, erect; teeth straight, broadly triangular, apex spinescent. Corolla white, slightly longer than calyx tube, ca. 1.2 cm; tube ca. 8 mm; lower lip spreading, middle lobe largest. Nutlets brown, oblong, triquetrous, ca. 2 mm, shiny. Fl. and fr. year round.
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"Habit: A scabrid, erect or diffuse herb, upto 50cm."
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"Erect hirsute herbs to 40 cm tall. Leaves 3-8 x 1-2 cm, linear-lanceolate, base cuneate, margin distantly serrate, apex acute, puberulous, petiole c. 3 mm long. Verticils terminal and axillary; bract linear, equalling calyx, hirsute. Calyx c. 6 mm long, tubular, 10-ribbed, upper half strigose without, glabrous below; mouth oblique, 10-toothed; teeth unequal, posterior the longer, linear, c.1 mm long. Corolla white; tube c. 6 mm long; Upper lip c. 3 mm long, villous without; lower lip 7-8 mm long. Stamens 4; style c. 8 mm long."
Habit: Herb