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Hyptis
suaveolens (L.)Poit.
Synonym
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Ballota suaveolens
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Family
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Lamiaceae
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Local name
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Malayalam
-Nattapoochedi
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Flowering and fruiting
period
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August-February
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Distribution
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Originally from America now Pantropical
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Distribution in Kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Degraded moist and dry deciduous forests and wastelands
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Endemic/Exotic
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Exotic
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Uses
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It has been used as a medicinal tea in many places in
asia and as a food and source of essential oil
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Key botanical
characters :
Shrubs, to
1.5 m high; stem obtusely 4-angular, viscous hairy. Leaves simple, opposite,
to 7 x 5 cm, ovate, acute, hispid below, glabrate above;. Flowers in axillary
short cymose racemes. Calyx tube 8 mm long, tubular, 10-ribbed, glandular
hairy, teeth spinulose, 4 mm long. Corolla 5 mm long, lobes short, glabrous
inside, blue. Stamens 4, declinate, Nutlets oblong, compressed, with a ridge
on dorsal surface, pubescent, deep brown, mucilaginous when wet.
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