Anisochilus carnosus(L.f.)Wall.
Description:
Family: LamiaceaeDistribution: Common on dry rocky open slopes in hills. Found in India, and neighbouring countries.Fleshy herbs with tetragonous stems. Leaves 3-8x2-5 cm ovate, crenate, sub fleshy.Flowers purple in long peduncled spikes.Spike small in flower but large and strobilate in fuit. calyx 2 lipped, upper lip larger, corolla 2 lipped, upper lip entire, lower elongate, concave, stamens 4, didynamous. Nutlets orbicular, compressed shining brown.Leaves are used for skin deseases.
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