Fever Tea
Lippia javanica
- Habit
- Undershrub
- Found in India
- Arunachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, West Bengal
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Fever Tea
Identify Fever Tea by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a undershrub habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Strongly aromatic leaves used as tea.
- Confirm leaf surface: Pubescent (softly hairy).
- Confirm flower colour: White.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Arunachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, West Bengal.
- Confirm it sits within the Verbenaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Fever Tea.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Lippia javanica
- Genus
- Lippia
- Family
- Verbenaceae
- Habit
- Undershrub
- Habitat
- Along banks of rivers and in deciduous forests
- Native to
- Tropical America, West Indies
- Distribution
- Naturalized in old World
- Found in India
- Arunachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, West Bengal
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf surface
- Pubescent (softly hairy)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Opposite
Characters marked “recorded” are for Fever Tea itself; the rest are typical of the Verbenaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Whiterecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Zygomorphic (bilaterally symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Drupe
Characters marked “recorded” are for Fever Tea itself; the rest are typical of the Verbenaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Fever Tea
Fever Tea (Lippia javanica) belongs to the Verbenaceae family, where it grows as a low shrub. In India it has been recorded in Arunachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and West Bengal. It grows in along banks of rivers and in deciduous forests. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Verbenaceae
Verbena/Teak family
Fever Tea belongs to the Verbenaceae family.
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