Plectranthus amboinicus

Plectranthus amboinicus (Lour.)Spreng.                              

Family       :    Lamiaceae/labiatae 

Common Name : പനിക്കൂർക്ക(Mal)

                                 Indian borage (Eng)

   पत्थरचूर (Hin)                       

Cuban Oregano is a sprawling and somewhat succulent herb, growing to 1 m tall. The plant is sometimes prostrate at base, with the branchlets rising up, densely hairy. Leaves have stalks 1-4.5 cm long, densely velvety, like most mint family plants. Leaf blade is fleshy, broadly ovate to circular, rhombic, or kidney-shaped, 4-10 cm long, 3-9 cm broad, coarsely toothed at margin or entire toward base. Flowers are borne in 10-20-flowered, densely velvety spikes, 10-20 cm long. Flower stalks are slender, up to 5 mm long

Branched, pubescent aromatic perennial herbs. Leaves opposite, to 5.6 x 3 cm, ovate or suborbicular, base cordate, margins finely serrate, apex obtuse or acute, fleshy; petiole to 2 cm long. Inflorescence terminal, simple to 20 cm long; cymes sessile, glomerulate, many flowered. Flowers shortly pedicelled; bracts sessile, caducous, ovate to 3 mm long, pubescent  Calyx hispid, small, the upper lip ovate, acute, lower of 4 acuminate lobes, throat glabrous within. Corolla purple, 2-lipped, tube decurved. Stamens 4, didynamous; filaments 10-12 mm long united to half of their length, exserted from anterior corolla lip; anther cells confluent. Ovary 4-partite; stigma 2-fid. Nutlets smooth.