Remujung atau kumis kucing atau cat's whiskers (Orthosiphon aristatus) is a species of plant in the Lamiaceae, an erect herb, the lower part is rooted at the joints, 2 meters high, the stem has four corners and is somewhat grooved with short hair or bald, has joints where branches grow to the left and right and is dark purple.
O. aristatus has round or oval, lanceolate, round-ovate or rhombic leaves starting from the base, 1-10 cm long, 1-5 cm wide, 4-29 cm long stalks and a main vein in the middle, leaf stalk length 7-29 cm.
Glandular flower petals, veins and bases are short and sparsely hairy, while the uppermost part is bald. The terminal crown is a bunch that comes out of the end of the branch with a length of 7-29 cm. Length 13-27mm, covered with short purple hairs on the top and then turning white, tube length 10-18 mm, lip length 4.5-10mm, blunt flower strands, round. Stamens are longer than flower tubes and exceed the upper lip of the flower.
Dark brown fruit, 1.75-2 mm long. 2.3. short and sparse hairy stalks, 1-6 mm long.
This species grows ideally in 3000 mm/year rainfall with full sunlight without shade and hot to moderate air temperatures. Easy to grow in agricultural lands, andosol and latosol soils at an elevation of 500-1200 meters.
Dried leaves are used as a diuretic, rheumatism, constipation, kidney inflammation, kidney stones, diabetes, albuminuria, syphilis, lowering blood glucose levels and antibacterial.
TAXON
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Subfamily: Nepetoideae
Tribe: Ocimeae
Subtribe: Ociminae
Genus: Orthosiphon Benth. in Edwards's Bot. Reg. 15: t. 1300 (1830)
Species: Orthosiphon aristatus (Blume) Miq. in Fl. Ned. Ind. 2: 943 (1858)
Variety: OOrthosiphon aristatus var. aristatus, Orthosiphon aristatus var. velteri Suddee & A.J.Paton
HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS
Ocimum aristatum Blume in Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 833 (1826)
PUBLICATIONS
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Karthigeyan, K., Pandey, R.P. & Mao, A.A. (eds.) (2023). Flora of Andaman and Nicobar Islands 2: 1-689. Botanical Survey of India. Ministry of environment, forest and climate change.
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Smith, A.C. (1991). Flora Vitiensis Nova. A new flora for Fiji (Spermatophytes only) 5: 1-626. Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden, Lawai.
Suddee, S., Paton, A.J. & Parnell, J.A.N. (2005). Taxonomic Revision of the tribe Ocimeae Dumort (Lamiaceae) in continental South East Asia III. Ociminae. Kew Bulletin 60: 3-75.
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VERNACULAR NAME
Chinese (Simplified): 肾茶
Chinese (Traditional): 貓鬚草 - 腎茶 - 貓鬚草 - 化石草
Danish: ortosifon
English: Cat's Whiskers, Java Tea, Kidney tea plant
Filipino: Balbas pusa
Finnish: Munuaistee
Indonesian: Kumis Kucing
Japanese: ネコノヒゲ - クミスクチン
Javanese: Remujung
Madura: Songot koceng, Se-salaseyan
Malayalam: Poochameesa
Manipuri: Warak Leikham
Melayu: Giri-giri marah
Mizo: Zunthlum-kung
Palauan: Chemadecharebub
Russian: Ортосифон остистый
Thai: หญ้าหนวดแมว
Turkish: Ortosifon
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