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Plectranthus amboinicus (Lour.) Spreng.


Synonym
:
Coleus amboinicus Lour.
Family
:
Lamiaceae
Local name
:
English - Indian borage, Country borage
Malyalam  - Kanjikoorka, Kannikoorka
Flowering and fruiting period
:
January-March
Distribution
:
Widely cultivated throughout tropics
Distribution in Kerala
:
All Districts
Habitat
:
Grown in homesteads
Uses
:
Common home remedy for infantile cough, cold, fever and headache, stimulates liver function, useful in kidney and bladder stones.
Key botanical characters:
Branched, pubescent herbs. Leaves fleshy. Flowers shortly pedicelled, in dense panicle. Calyx hispid, small, the upper lip ovate, acute, lower of 4 acuminate lobes, throat glabrous within. Corolla purple, 2-lipped, tube decurved. Stamens 4, didynamous; anther cells confluent. Ovary 4-partite; stigma 2-fid. Nutlets smooth.






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