✿Lamiaceae · Pogostemon
Hairy Shrub-Mint
Pogostemon wightii
Undershrub
- Habit
- Undershrub
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu
- Flowering
- December-January
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Pogostemon wightii
- Genus
- Pogostemon
- Family
- Lamiaceae
- Habit
- Undershrub
- Habitat
- Shola forests
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Distribution
- India
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu
- Flowering & fruiting
- December-January
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf surface
- Pubescent (softly hairy)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Opposite
Characters marked “recorded” are for Hairy Shrub-Mint itself; the rest are typical of the Lamiaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Whiterecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Zygomorphic (bilaterally symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Nutlets
Characters marked “recorded” are for Hairy Shrub-Mint itself; the rest are typical of the Lamiaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Hairy Shrub-Mint
A member of the Lamiaceae family, Hairy Shrub-Mint (Pogostemon wightii) is a low shrub. In India it has been recorded in Tamil Nadu. It grows in shola forests. Flowering and fruiting run from December to January.
Botanical family
Lamiaceae
Mint/Sage family
Hairy Shrub-Mint belongs to the Lamiaceae family.
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