Pogostemon menthoides
Content
Description
Erect branched herb, 0.5-1 m.
Leaves thick-membranaceous, lanceolate to ovate, 1—5(—8) by 0.7-3(-5)cm, acute, base acute or rounded, often slightly oblique;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Assam (Assam present); Borneo present; Lesser Sunda Is. (Bali present); Philippines (Philippines present); Thailand (Thailand present), Burma present, Lesser Sunda Is present, Luzon present, Mt Kinabalu present, SE. Asia present, from Mt Gedeh eastwards present
SE. Asia (Assam, Burma, Thailand, Indo-China); in Malesia: Java (from Mt Gedeh eastwards), Lesser Sunda Is. (Bali), Borneo (Mt Kinabalu), and Philippines (Luzon).
Notes
The record of P. plectranthoides DESF., a species of India, is evidently based on a misinterpretation or on an early collection of cultivated specimens in the Bogor Botanic Gardens. The record from Banka by KURZ seems doubtful.
Citation
Koord. 1912 – In: Exk. Fl. Java: 151
Koord. 1912 – In: Exk. Fl. Java: 151
BTH. 1833: Lab. Gen. Sp.: 156
STEEN. 1972: Mt. Fl. Java: pl. 25-10
Bl. 1918 – In: Fl. Tjibodas: fam. 254, p. 91
MURATA 1969 – In: Acta Phytotax. Geobot.: 87
KURZ 1864 – In: Nat. Tijd. N. I.: 213
HASSK. 1844: Cat. Hort. Bog.: 130
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 963
Bl. 1848 – In: DC., Prod. 12: 155
KENG 1969 – In: Gard. Bull. Sing.: 156
BACK. & BAKH.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 632