Leucas marrubioides

• Botanical Name : Leucas marrubioides Desf.
• Synonyms : Leucas javanica var. Montana Zoll.
• Common Name : Horehound Leucas
• Plant Family : Lamiaceae (Labiatae)
• Plant Form : Herb
• Occurrence (Special Areas) : Indroda Park

About Leucas marrubioides Plant :

• Habit : An erect, stout herb, often scandent with branchlets quadrangular, deflexed.
• Leaves : Opposite-decussate, simple, ovate, hoary-tomentose below, base truncate, margin creanate-serrate, apex acute, petiolate.
• Inflorescence : Verticillaster
• Flowers :
  • Bracteate, bracts filiform.
  • Calyx tubular, 10-toothed, mouth straight, teeth lanceolate, unequal, acuminate.
  • Corolla bilipped, upper lip villous, lower glabrous.
  • Stamens 4, filament pairs 3.
• Fruit : A nutlet, 4 sub-trigonous.
• Flowering and Fruiting Time : November - December