| Two-Flowered Leucas |
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| Original date | 1/8/12 9:47 AM |
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| Exposure time | 1/60s |
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| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX L19 |
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Botanical name: Leucas biflora Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Synonyms: Leucas procumbens, Phlomis biflora, Blandinia biflora
Synonyms: Leucas procumbens, Phlomis biflora, Blandinia biflora
Two-Flowered Leucas is a perennial herb with nodal
roots, and many branches arising from a woody root-stock. Stem is
square, much velvety with deflexed hairs at the ribs. Leaves are 0.7-3
cm long, 0.5-1.5cm broad, ovate or ovate-oblong, blunt or
narrowed at tip to somewhat long-pointed, rounded or narrowed at base,
toothed at margins. Leaves are velvety on both the surfaces especially
on the veins. Leaf-stalks are 0.5-2 cm long, velvety. Flowers are borne
in 1-6 flowered worls in leaf axils. Flower-stalks are up to 2 mm long.
Bracts are about 2 mm long. Flowers are white, two-lipped, lower lip 4
lobed, spreading, velvety, upper lip concave, hairy out side. Sepal
tube is 5-12 mm long, tubular, bell-shaped, straight, 10-ribbed, hairy
outside especially on the ribs, thinly velvety inside above the middle
with white deciduous hairs. Mouth is truncate; teeth 10, 1-2 mm long.
Flower-tube is as long as the sepal tube (including teeth), annulate
within. Both lips are almost equal. Upper one is bearded with white
hairs. Stamens are 4, didynamous, filament hairy; anthers orange in
color. Nutlets are 1.5-2 mm long, flat at top. Two-Flowered Leucas
is found in Andaman & Nicobar, Bangladesh, Peninsular India, Maldives,
Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and the Himalayas.
Medicinal uses: 
In ethnic medicine in NE India, the mature leaf decoction is uses as
eye drop twice a day in case of conjunctivitis. The mature leaves
ground with the leaves of Centella asiatica in a ratio of 2:1 and the
juice extracted from this mixture is applied directly to stop instance
of bleeding from nose. Four to five leaves are also prescribed to chew
with a leaf of
Piper betel (Pan Pata) for the women who suffer from white discharge.
In ethnic medicine in NE India, the mature leaf decoction is uses as
eye drop twice a day in case of conjunctivitis. The mature leaves
ground with the leaves of Centella asiatica in a ratio of 2:1 and the
juice extracted from this mixture is applied directly to stop instance
of bleeding from nose. Four to five leaves are also prescribed to chew
with a leaf of
Piper betel (Pan Pata) for the women who suffer from white discharge.
| Identification credit: Jui Pethe | Photographed on the banks of Godavari river, Nashik. |
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