Common name: Violet Skullcap • Malayalam: കാട്ടുതുളസി kattuthulasi • Tamil: நோவு பச்சிலை novu pacchilai
Botanical name:Scutellaria violaceaFamily:Lamiaceae (Mint family) Synonyms: Scutellaria floribunda, Scutellaria nodulosa, Scutellaria violacea var. glabra
Violet Skullcap is an erect straggling herbs with
hairy stem. Leaves are up to 7 x 5 cm, ovate, pointed, toothed, base
heart-shaped, hairy, stalk 4-5 cm long. Flowers are borne in racemes 15
cm long, glandular hairy, bracts ovate, 3 mm long. Flowers are paired,
long-stalked, calyx hairless, upper sepal 7 x 5 mm, saccate, lower lip
4 x 3 mm. Flowers are pale blue, 1.5 cm long, lateral lobes of lower
lip shorter, hairless, filaments frilly at base, anthers bearded,
confluent. Nutlets spherical, tuberculate. Violet Skullcap is found in
the Himalayas, from Nepal to Bhutan, at altitudes of 1400-1800 m,
Western Ghats and Sri Lanka.
Identification credit: E.S. Santhosh Kumar
Photographed at Gudampara, Munnar, Kerala.
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