| Small-Flowered Shrub-Mint |
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| Original date | 1/28/12 9:55 AM |
| Resolution | 4000 x 3000 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 45.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/100s |
| Aperture | 2.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-G1 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Pogostemon parviflorus Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Synonyms: Pogostemon championii
Synonyms: Pogostemon championii
Small-Flowered Shrub-Mint is a nearly erect subshrub,
few branched. Stems and branches are sparsely velvet-hairy. Leaf-stalks
are 1-1.3 cm; leaf blade ovate-lanceshaped, 6-8 x 2.5-4 cm, membranous,
sparsely appressed velvet-hairy especially along veins, base
wedge-shaped, margin obscurely double rounded toothed, entire at base,
tip tapering. Flowers are borne in ovoid-cylindric spikes, 1.5-3.5 x 1
cm, continuous, appressed velvet-hairy; verticillasters in loose
panicles on branch tips. Flowers are purplish, about 7 mm, hairless,
margin sparsely fringed with hairs velvet-hairy, petals almost equal.
Filaments bearded. Style lobes subequal, about 1.5 mm.
Flower-cluster-stalks are about 5 mm; bracts ovate-lanceshaped, about 3
mm. Sepal-cup is narrowly bell-shaped, about 4 mm, velvet-hairy
outside; teeth triangular, tip pointed, equal, about 1/3 as long as
sepal-cup. Small-Flowered Shrub-Mint is found in NE India, Gujarat,
Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, and SE Asia.
Medicinal uses:
Small-Flowered Shrub-Mint has
antiseptic activity and it is useful in the treatment of enteritis,
eczema
and mycotic enteritis.
Medicinal uses:
Small-Flowered Shrub-Mint has
antiseptic activity and it is useful in the treatment of enteritis,
eczema
and mycotic enteritis. | Identification credit: V. Sampath Kumar | Photographed at Prabalgad, Maharashtra. |
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