Manipur Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Manipur (India)
Designed & Developed by Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Lamiaceae | Genus: Leucosceptrum | Species: Leucosceptrum canum Sm. |
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Flower |
Fruit |
Bark |
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| Synonym | Clerodendrum leucosceptrum, Teucrium leucosceptrum | Flower Color | White |
| Common Name | Leucosceptrum | Flower Type | Panicle |
| English / Trade Name | Leucosceptrum | Flowering Period | Oct-Dec |
| Vernacular /Local Name | Kanghuman achouba | Fruiting Period | Jan-March |
| Altitude | 1000-2600 m | Fruit Type | Follicle |
| Habit | Shrub | Fruit Details | Nutlets smooth abaxially, with sparse transparent tubercles adaxially |
| Habitat | Occurs in dry open waste areas, forest margins, valley streamsides, second growth forests | Bark Type | Smooth |
| Distribution | India, China, Tibet,Nepal, Bhutan,Bangladesh and Northern Indochina | Bark Details | Bark gray-yellow or brown, exfoliating; branches densely gray or yellowish tomentose when young, brownish, puberulent or subglabrous with age |
| Distribution in manipur | Eastern | Origin | Native |
| Leaf Type | Simple | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Alternate (leaves born singly along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Elliptic | ||
| Description of Species | It is 1.5-7 m tall, bark gray-yellow or brown, exfoliating; branches densely gray or yellowish tomentose when young, brownish, puberulent or subglabrous with age | Leaf Details | Leaf blade elliptic-lanceolate, 10-23 × 5-9 cm, papery, densely gray or yellowish tomentose-stellate/floccose when young, adaxially glabrescent or puberulent on midrib |
