Aromatic perennial succulent shrub ; up to 60 cm high , sometimes forming clumps . Stems often pinkish-green , erect or ascending , softly wooded , ± brittle , rounded-quadrangular , branched , with short axillary shoots , pubescent to tomentose , eglandular with yellowish sessile glands . Leaves opposite , fleshy , petiolate , 1 . 2-6 x 0 . 5-2 . 25 cm , elliptic to obovate , base tapering into petiole , apex obtuse , margins serrate or crenate , pubescent to tomentose , with yellowish sessile glands . Inflorescences in lax spikes , terminal or in axils of leaves , verticils ± congested , eglandular ; bracts ovate to elliptic , deciduous ; pedicels 2-3 mm , ascending , slightly falttened , distally curved . Flowers purplish blue ; calyx 1 . 5 mm , fruiting calyx 2-3 mm , 2-lipped , densely tomentose with white hairs and with yellowish or orange sessile glands ; upper lip purplish , narrow elliptic , acute ; lower lip with 4 lanceolate lobes , median lobes deeply split ; corolla bluish or violet , 3-5 mm , 2-lipped ; upper lip erect , 2-lobed at apex with 2 small lateral lobes ; lower lip
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Not Common
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Coleus subbaraoi Kumari & Malathi
Burnatastrum cylindraceum (Hochst. ex Benth.) P.V.Heath
Germanea cylindracea (Hochst. ex Benth.) Hiern
Plectranthus cylindraceus Hochst. ex Benth.
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Miller & Morris (1988) wrote that: "Less strikingly coloured flowering spikes of P. cylindraceus are found mainly in the drier areas at the back of the monsoon mountains [J: gye'] leading down to the Negd, in areas that just catch the edge of the monsoon cool and damp. 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
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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
