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Hyptis
capitataJacq.,
Synonym
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Clinopodium capitatum
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Family
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Lamiaceae
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Flowering and fruiting
period
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September-January
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Distribution
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Native of Tropical America; naturalised in some parts of India and
Malesia
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Distribution in Kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Degraded forests and wastelands
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Endemic/Exotic
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Exotic
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Uses
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A decoction of the leaves is used externally to treat
wounds, and a decoction of the roots internally against amenorrhoea.
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Key botanical
characters :
Shrubs, to
2 m tall; stem hollow when old, furrowed or obscurely 4-angled, puberulus.
Leaves broadly elliptic to lanceolate, scabrid, nerves 5-7 pairs, oblique.
Heads on long peduncle, axillary and terminal. Flowers numerous, densely
packed; calyx 7 mm long in fruit, glandular, lobes 5-7, acute to acuminate,
united well above the middle; corolla 4 mm long, white. Nutlets smooth,
black.
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