Common name: Mint Leaved Leucas
Botanical name: Leucas lamifolia Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Mint Leaved Leucas is a densely hairy shrubby herb, 2.5-3 m tall. Leaves
are ovate-heartshaped, rufous hairy above, velvety or hairy below. Leaf
margins are serrate-crenate, apex acute, nerves impressed; stalk 1-3 cm
long; bracts linear-lanceolate, equalling the calyx. Calyx 1-1.2 cm long;
tube bell-shaped, straight, throat hairy; sepals 2.5-3 mm long, unequal,
erect. Flower tube to 8 mm long, annular; upper lip to 5 mm long with white
hairs; lower to 8 mm long, 3-lobed; mid-lobe larger, emarginate. Stamens 4;
lower filaments longer; anthers 2-celled. Ovary 4-partite; style ca. 1.8 cm
long; stigma 2-lobed. Flowering: January.
Identification credit: Prashant Awale
| Photographed at Malshej Ghat, Maharashtra. |
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