

Family: Lamiaceae
Synonyms: Buchanania oppositifolia Sm. , Colebrookea ternifolia Roxb., Elsholtzia oppositifolia (Sm.) Poir., Sussodia oppositifolia (Sm.) Buch.-Ham
English: Indian Squirrel Tail
Chinese: 川滇香薷, 羽萼,
Hindi: बिंदा Binda, पांसरा Pansra
Konkani: भामिनी Bhamini
Malayalam: Karimjetti
Marathi: Dasai, भामण Bhaman
Nepali: धुर्सिल dhursil
Oriya: Bosik
Description: Large shrubs; stem and leaves densely tomentose. Leaves to 20 x 6 cm, elliptic, acuminate, crenulate, base acute to acuminate, nerves ca.10 pairs, oblique. Spikes to 10 x 0.5 cm, panicled, terminal, densely hairy. Flowers in close whorls; calyx 1.5 mm long; tube very short, densely white-hairy, lobes subulate; corolla 2 mm long, equally 4-lobed; stamens 4, exserted in male flowers, included in female flowers, filaments glabrous; style 2-fid at tip. Nutlets hairy at apex; fruiting calyx larger.
10 Published articles of Colebrookea oppositifolia