| Sticky Wild Basil |
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| Original date | 7/27/16 10:19 AM |
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| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 10.0 |
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| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5100 |
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Botanical name: Endostemon viscosus Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Synonyms: Ocimum viscosum, Plectranthus viscosus, Orthosiphon diffusus
Synonyms: Ocimum viscosum, Plectranthus viscosus, Orthosiphon diffusus
Sticky Wild Basil is a subshrub, growing from a
woody base. Branchlets are finely velvet-hairy, 4-angled, becoming
round later. Leaves are decussate, elliptic to nearly round, up to 2 x
1.5 cm, densely velvet-hairy below, base flat, margin rounded toothed,
tip blunt; leaf-stalk to 1 cm. Flowers are borne in whorls of 6, on a
3-chotomous raceme at branch ends. Flower-cluster-stalk are up to 9 cm,
bracts ovate; flower-stalk 0.5 cm. Calyx-tube is hairy within, limb
2-lipped, 1 + 4; upper lip ovate-nearly round, 1.5 cm; lower mid (2)
lobes longer, lanceshaped, hairy outside. Flowers are pinkish, 4.5 x
2.5 cm wide; tube 3 mm; limb 2-lipped, 4 + 1; upper lip ovate, 3 mm;
lower lip 3.5 mm, hairy along throat. Stamens 4, didynamous, descending
into lower lip; filaments 2 mm; anthers 2-celled. Disk anteriorly
developed. Nutlets are erect, enclosed in accrescent calyx. Sticky Wild
Basil is found in South India and Sri Lanka.
Medicinal uses:
In folks medicine, to increase
fertility in women, fresh leaves are ground with Oryza sativa and the
extract is drunk after menses.
Medicinal uses:
In folks medicine, to increase
fertility in women, fresh leaves are ground with Oryza sativa and the
extract is drunk after menses. | Identification credit: Anurag Sharma | Photographed at Gundumgere, Doddaballapura, Karnataka. |
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