Anisomeles malabarica
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Description
Subshrubby, 0.5-1.5 m.
Leaves membranaceous to thick-chartaceous, oblong to narrowly ovate, 3-8 by 1.5-3 cm, acute, crenate-serrate, base broadly acute or shortly cuneate, entire, densely woolly beneath, sparsely hirsute above;
Flowers many (10-15 or less) in dense axillary whorls, the whorls distantly disposed below, more or less approximate above, forming an interrupted spicate inflorescence.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: India present; Thailand (Thailand present), Babar present, Bismarck Arch present, Burma present, Ceylon present, Continental SE. Asia present, Lesser Sunda Is present, Mauritius present, Penang present, South Moluccas present, Tanimbar present, Timor present, W.-E. present, tropical Australia present
Mauritius, continental SE. Asia (Ceylon, India, Burma, Thailand, Indo-China) to tropical Australia; in Malesia: Penang (2 old coll.), Lesser Sunda Is. (Timor), the South Moluccas (Babar, Tanimbar), New Guinea (W.-E.), and Bismarck Arch.
Notes
FERN.-VILLAR () mentioned this species to occur in the Philippines, but MERRILL excluded it (), and no material is available to sustain this record.
The species is taken here in the broad sense. BENTHAM already referred to the variability of the Australian material and remarked that Australian forms approached very near to a few of narrow-leaved Indian specimens. Both leaf-shape and indumentum vary a great deal.
The species is taken here in the broad sense. BENTHAM already referred to the variability of the Australian material and remarked that Australian forms approached very near to a few of narrow-leaved Indian specimens. Both leaf-shape and indumentum vary a great deal.
Citation
HENTY & PRITCHARD 1975: p. 103. – In: Bot. Bull. Lae: fig.
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 976
PRAIN 1907 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 716
K.SCH. & LAUT. 1900: Fl. Schutzgeb.: 528
BTH. 1848 – In: DC., Prod. 12: 456
SIMS 1848 – In: DC., Prod. 12: 456
MANSFELD 1929 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 376
Hook.f. 1885 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 673
K.SCH. & HOLLR. 1889: Fl. Kais. Wilh. Land: 118
WARB. 1891 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 425
R.BR. 1848 – In: DC., Prod. 12: 455
KENG 1969 – In: Gard. Bull. Sing.: 37
BTH. 1830 – In: Wall., Pl. As. Rar. 1: 59
BTH. 1835: Lab. Gen. Sp.: 702
BTH. 1870 – In: Fl. Austr.: 89
MUKERJEE 1940 – In: Rec. Bot. Surv. India: 153
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 976
KENG 1969 – In: Gard. Bull. Sing.: 37
Ridl. 1923 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 649
DOMIN 1929 – In: Bibl. Bot.: 1121