Erect , shrubby perennial ; up to 60 cm tall , semi-succulent , often forming large clumps , whole plant aromatic . Stems erect or ascending , sometimes creeping at base , softly wooded , ± brittle , rounded-quadrangular , branched , pubescent to villous , glandular and/or eglandular with red sessile glands . Leaves opposite , spreading , fleshy , petiolate , 5-20 x 2-6 cm , elliptic to ovate , base cuneate to rounded , apex obtuse , margins serrate or crenate , pubescent to tomentose , densely red sessile glands beneath ; petiole 1-5 cm . Inflorescences borne along the length of an erect spike , , up to 30 cm long , glandular , viscid ; bracts ovate , deciduous ; pedicels 3-4 mm , ascending , slightly flattened , distally curved . Flowers purple or pale blue with an upper and lower lip , up to 2 cm long ; calyx 3-5 mm , 2-lipped , villous at base ; upper lip ovate , abruptly acuminate ; lower lip with 4 narrow acute teeth ; corolla purplish blue , 1 . 7-2 cm , 2-lipped ; upper lip erect , 2-lobed at apex with 2
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Plectranthus barbatus Andrews
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Woolly Plectranthus
Big Leave Plectranthus
False Boldo
Indian Coleus
Coleous
Grootblaar Plectranthus
Miller & Morris (1988) wrote that: "The tall blue flowering spikes of P. barbatus make a bright splash of colour throughout the higher mountains. The leaves are moisture laden and because of this were widely used for washing and cleansing. The leaves give off a very strong and distinctive smell when crushed, very reminiscent of the popular commercial product 'Vicks' [DA: bu fas]. The leaves were rubbed between the hands and then over the body as a disinfectant and a deodorant. The smaller species was an important camel browse since it grows at the edge of the monsoon area, so that the camel and goats which were forced out of these areas by the weather could nevertheless make, as it were, grazing 'raids' into such accessible areas when the clouds temporarily lifted, yet easily retreat back into the dry desert areas when the mists and cloud came swirling back down.
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*Ghazanfar, S. (2015). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.3: Loganiaceae – Asteraceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 9789082352511 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *Miller, A., Morris, M. (1988). Plants of Dhofar, the Southern Region of Oman: Traditional, Economic, and Medicinal Uses. Published by Office of the Adviser for Conservation of the Environment, Diwan of Royal Court, Sultanate of Oman; ISBN 10: 0715708082 ISSN 13: 9780715708088. *https://en.wiktionary.org *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org *Pickering, H. Patzelt, A. (2008). Field Guide to the Wild Plants of Oman. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. ISBN 9781842461778.
