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Anisomeles malabarica - Alamoola

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{{stub}}[[File:Anisomeles malabarica 03.jpg|thumb|right|''Alamoola'', ''Anisomeles malabarica'']]Malabar catmint is an aromatic, perennial plant with woolly stems, growing from 50 - 150cm tall. The stems often become woody and persist. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use in traditional medicine.
==Uses==
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==Habit==
{{Habit|Shrub}}
==Identification==
===Leaf===
{{Leaf|Simple|Opposite|Leaves ovate-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 3.6-16 x 1.3-7 cm, narrowed and rounded at base, acute, crenate-serrate, slightly bullate and velvety lanate above, densely so beneath; petioles 0.7-3.5 cm long, stout, lanate. }}<ref name="Leaf"/>
===Flower===
{{Flower|Bisexual|Terminal racemes|Pink|4|Racemes to 34.5 cm long; verticils close, dense; peduncles densely lanate. Floral leaves 8-10 mm long, densely lanate. Bracts linear, to 5 mm long. Calyx to 9 mm long; tube to 5 mm long, lanate without, glabrous within; lobes lanceolate, to 4 mm long, acuminate. Corolla 1.4-2 cm long; tube to 9 mm long, white, glabrous without; throat pilose towards base of lower lip; Upper lip oblong, 4-6 mm long, obtuse at apex, slightly arched, whitish; lower lip to 1 cm across, coral pink, with 2 white streaks towards base, pilulose without with gland-tipped hairs, the lateral lobes shallowly rounded, the median one larger, broadly orbicular, 2-fid. Style glabrous; branches linear, unequal.}}
===Fruit===
{{Fruit|Nutlets|||Nutlets ovoid, 2.5 x 1.5 mm, trigonous, glabrous, blackish-brown and shining.||}}
===Other features===
==Photo Gallery==
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File:Anisomeles malabarica 01.jpg|Flowers
File:Anisomeles malabarica 04.jpg|Leaves
</gallery>
<ref name="chemical composition">["chemistry"]</ref>
<ref name="Leaf">[https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/228742"morphology"]</ref>
<ref name="How to plant/cultivate">[ "Cultivation"]</ref>
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[[Category:Herbs]]
[[Category:Lamiaceae]]
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