{"id":1411981,"date":"2014-09-23T04:10:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T04:10:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:29:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T12:59:25","slug":"leucas-hirta","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/leucas-hirta\/","title":{"rendered":"Leucas hirta"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Leucas<\/i> hirta<\/i> (B.Heyne ex Roth) Spreng.<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/a>, Syst. Veg. 2: 743 1825<\/i>. (Syn: Leucas<\/i> helianthemifolia<\/i> Benth.<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/a>; Phlomis<\/i> hirta<\/i> B.Heyne ex Roth<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/a>);<\/div>\n
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Erect herbs; branches covered with reflexed hairs. Leaves 5-6 x 1.5 cm, elliptic, obtuse, acute at base, distantly crenate, hirtus above, densely tomentose beneath; petiole 8 mm long. Heads terminal; bracts 10 x 1 mm, linear, bristly. Flowers 15-30 in a head; calyx tube 7 mm long, white, densely hairy outside; corolla tube 5 mm long, upper lip emarginate, white, hairy, midlobe of lower lip emarginate.<\/font><\/div>\n

Flowering and fruiting: September-December<\/font><\/div>\n
Grasslands and shola forests<\/font><\/div>\n
Peninsular India (Endemic)<\/font><\/div>\n
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Leucas hirta (B.Heyne ex Roth) Spreng. SN Sep 29<\/a> : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (3). <\/div>\n
Leucas hirta<\/i> (B.Heyne ex Roth) Spreng., <\/div>\n
wild erect bushy herb<\/font> from the out skirts of Bangalore<\/font><\/p>\n
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Leucas (Lamiaceae) for ID :: 060115 :: MK007<\/a> : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (7)<\/font><\/div>\n
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Please help in identifying this Leucas<\/i> herb found common in scrub jungles.<\/font><\/div>\n
Height: 1-2 feet<\/font><\/div>\n
Leaf: up to 5 cm long<\/font><\/div>\n
Date: 27 Oct 2014<\/font><\/div>\n
Alt.: 850 m asl<\/font><\/div>\n
Habitat: scrub forest (dry)<\/font><\/div>\n
Place: Sathyamangalam RF, Erode Dist., TN<\/font>\u00a0<\/p>\n
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ANJUL09 Leucas sp. for identification<\/a> :\u00a03 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (<\/font>11<\/font>)<\/font> <\/div>\n
Family: Lamiaceae<\/i>
Date: 27th July 2016
Place: Doddaballapura, Karnataka<\/font>
Habit: Shrub
Habitat: Scrub forest
<\/font>Height 2 feet, stem quadrangular, leaf 1-1.5 cm wide, 4-4.5 cm long, petiole .3-.6 cm, leaf margin toothed above the middle, verticellasters 2 cm in diameter, calyx tube 1 cm long, bracts .7 cm long, calyx teeth 10 and throat of the calyx villous with white hair.
<\/font>Can this be L. eriostoma<\/font><\/i><\/a> or L. hirta<\/font><\/i><\/a>?<\/p>\n
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ANJUL09 Leucas sp. for identification<\/a> : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments<\/span> (<\/font>11<\/font><\/span>)<\/font><\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n
Family: Lamiaceae<\/i>
Date: 27th July 2016
Place: Doddaballapura, Karnataka<\/font>
Habit: Shrub
Habitat: Scrub forest
<\/font>Height 2 feet, stem quadrangular, leaf 1-1.5 cm wide, 4-4.5 cm long, petiole .3-.6 cm, leaf margin toothed above the middle, verticellasters 2 cm in diameter, calyx tube 1 cm long, bracts .7 cm long, calyx teeth 10 and throat of the calyx villous with white hair.
<\/font>Can this be L. eriostoma<\/font><\/i><\/a> or L. hirta<\/font><\/i><\/a>?<\/p>\n
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Thank you very much … I would appreciate if a group expert could make the taxonomic difference was available rather than the comparative images as these species have very close characters but there must be one feature that sets them apart. I am not able to tell myself from the floras I have available.<\/p>\n

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<\/font>The Plant List Ver.1.1<\/a>
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Leucas hirta (B.Heyne ex Roth) Spreng., Syst. Veg. 2: 743 1825. (Syn: Leucas helianthemifolia Benth.; Phlomis hirta B.Heyne ex Roth); Images by P. Santhan & N Muthu Karthick (Id by P. Santhan) (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more images & complete details, click on the links) \u00a0 \u00a0 Erect herbs; branches…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[4843],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1411981","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-leucas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1411981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1411981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1411981"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1411981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}