Family: Lamiaceae
Synonym: Majana amboinica (Lour.) Kuntze
Vernacular name: Panikkurkka, Kannikkurkka
Habit: Shrub
Habitat: Cultivated, open area
Distribution: India, Mexico, America
Flowering and Fruiting: December-June
Key identification features: This plant may be prostrate at the base with upward-rising branchlets, densely hairy. Flowers form in 10-20-flowered, densely velvety spikes. There is a bell-shaped sepal cup and the flowers are pale blue to mauve or pink, with stamens' filaments often fused into a tube around the style.
Uses:
It is used as a folk remedy for burns and bites,
internally as a carminative and antiasthma, and applied externally as an insect
repellent
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