Annual or perennial herb ; up to 80 cm tall , woody based , grey-green . Stems erect , square , simple or branching from the base , covered in stiff white hair . Leaves opposite , yellowish-green , shortly petiolate , up to 20 x 25 mm , ovate to suborbicular , base truncate , apex rounded to obtuse , margins crenate at the apex , pubescent ; petiole 5-10 mm . Inflorescences whorled clusters on a terminal spike ; bracteoles 5-8 mm , ovate-suborbicular , densely white-hairy ; pedicels ± 1 mm long . Flowers many , congested in each cyme , white ; calyx 7-8 mm , somewhat inflated , 10-nerved ; lobes 8-10 ; teeth ± 1 mm , narrow triangular , white-pubescent with long hairs ; corolla white , 10-11 mm ; tube ± 5 mm ; upper lip forming a hood , emarginate , densely ciliate on margins ; lower lip 3-lobed , the central longer than the two laterals ; stamens with eglandular filaments . Fruit nutlets , ovoid , glandular at the apex . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .
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الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Leucas acrodonta Steud.
Leucas schimperi C.Presl
Physoleucas acrodonta Jaub. & Spach
Physoleucas inflata (Benth.) Jaub. & Spach ex Briq.
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Not known
As a treatment for inflamed wound. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).
*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 *Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants. Fourth Edition. Cambridge University Press, UK. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3 ISSN 978-0-521-68553-5. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
