Orthosiphon: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Lamiales
- Family
- Lamiaceae
- Genus
- Orthosiphon
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Orthosiphon
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Orthosiphon
Orthosiphon is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae native to Africa, Southern Asia and Queensland, with one species (O. americanus) in Colombia. They are herbaceous shrubs which grow to a height of 1.5 m (5 ft). Some Orthosiphon species are popular garden plants because of their flowers, which are white and bluish with filaments resembling a cat's whiskers. In the wild, the plants can be seen growing in forests and along roadsides.
Common names in Southeast Asia are Misai Kucing (Malaysia), Kumis Kucing and Remujung (Indonesia), and Yaa Nuat Maeo (Thailand).
...Orthosiphon in languages:
- Chinese
- 腎茶屬
- Thai
- สกุล หญ้าหนวดแมว
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Orthosiphon adenocaulis
- Orthosiphon allenii
- Orthosiphon americanus
- Orthosiphon argenteus
- Orthosiphon aristatus
- Orthosiphon biflorus
- Orthosiphon bullosus
- Orthosiphon cinereus
- Orthosiphon cladotrichos
- Orthosiphon cuanzae
- Orthosiphon discolor
- Orthosiphon ellipticus
- Orthosiphon exilis
- Orthosiphon ferrugineus
- Orthosiphon fruticosus
- Orthosiphon hanningtonii
- Orthosiphon humbertii
- Orthosiphon incurvus
- Orthosiphon lanatus
- Orthosiphon miserabilis
- Orthosiphon newtonii
- Orthosiphon nigripunctatus
- Orthosiphon pallidus
- Orthosiphon parishii
- Orthosiphon parvifolius
- Orthosiphon pseudoaristatus
- Orthosiphon robustus
- Orthosiphon rotundifolius
- Orthosiphon ruber
- Orthosiphon rubicundus
- Orthosiphon rufinervis
- Orthosiphon sarmentosus
- Orthosiphon scapiger
- Orthosiphon scedastophyllus
- Orthosiphon schimperi
- Orthosiphon schliebenii
- Orthosiphon suffrutescens
- Orthosiphon thymiflorus
- Orthosiphon truncatus
- Orthosiphon vernalis
- Orthosiphon violaceus
- Orthosiphon wattii
- Orthosiphon wulfenioides































































































































