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Plectranthus
amboinicus (Lour.) Spreng.
Synonym
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Coleus amboinicus Lour.
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Family
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Lamiaceae
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Local name
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English - Indian borage, Country borage
Malyalam - Kanjikoorka, Kannikoorka
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Flowering
and fruiting period
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January-March
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Distribution
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Widely cultivated throughout tropics
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Distribution
in Kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Grown in homesteads
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Uses
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Common home remedy for infantile cough, cold, fever and headache,
stimulates liver function, useful in kidney and bladder stones.
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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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