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Kunu buti (Mesosphaerum suaveolens)

Dlium Kunu buti (Mesosphaerum suaveolens)

Kunu buti (Mesosphaerum suaveolens) is a species of plant in the Lamiaceae family. It is an erect, herbaceous annual, growing up to 1.5 meters tall. Its cylindrical, rough, brown or green stem is hairy and white. It grows on forest floors, bushes, agricultural fields, and roadsides. Its roots are fibrous and brownish-yellow.

M. suaveolens has single, opposite leaves, stalks 2-5 cm long and hairy. The leaf blades are green, hairy, oval, with pointed tips, blunt bases, serrated edges, up to 6 cm long, up to 5 cm wide, and pinnate veins.



The flowers are compound, axillary, in clusters, perfect, and bisexual. The petals are attached, forming a tube, each tip elongated like a spine, soft, 3-10 mm long, and green. The corolla is attached, asymmetrically detached, 1-2 cm long, and purple. The fruit is single, hard, capsule-shaped, hairy on the surface, and green or brown in color. The seeds are round, small and blackish brown in color.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Subfamily: Nepetoideae
Tribe: Ocimeae
Subtribe: Hyptidinae
Genus: Mesosphaerum P.Browne in Civ. Nat. Hist. Jamaica: 257 (1756)
Species: Mesosphaerum suaveolens (L.) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 525 (1891)

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS

Ballota suaveolens L. in Syst. Nat., ed. 10. 2: 1100 (1759)
Bystropogon suaveolens (L.) L'Hér. in Sert. Angl.: 19 (1789)
Gnoteris cordata Raf. in Sylva Tellur.: 76 (1838)
Hyptis suaveolens (L.) Poit. in Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 7: 472 (1806)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Bystropogon graveolens Blume in Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 824 (1826)
Gnoteris villosa Raf. (1838)
Hyptis congesta Leonard in J. Washington Acad. Sci. 17: 70 (1927)
Hyptis ebracteata R.Br. in W.T.Aiton, Hortus Kew., ed. 2. 3: 391 (1811)
Hyptis graveolens (Blume) Mart. ex Benth. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 12: 126 (1848)
Hyptis graveolens Schrank in Denkschr. Königl.-Baier. Bot. Ges. Regensburg 2: 52 (1822)
Hyptis plumieri Poit. (1806)
Marrubium indicum Blanco in Fl. Filip.: 477 (1837)
Schaueria graveolens (Blume) Hassk. in Flora 25(2 Beibl.): 25 (1842)

PUBLICATIONS

Bramley, G.L.C. & al. (eds.) in Ridley, H.N. (2022). Flora of the Malay Peninsula, ser. II, 9: 1-301. Authority of teh Government of the Straits Settlements.

Bramley, G.L.C. (2019). Flora Malesiana 23: 1-444. Noordhoff-Kolff N.V., Djakarta.

Gosline, G., Bidault, E., van der Burgt, X., Cahen, D., Challen, G., Condé, N., Couch, C., Couvreur, T.L.P., Dagallier, L.M.J., Darbyshire, I., Dawson, S., Doré, T.S., Goyder, D., Grall, A., Haba, P., Haba, P., Harris, D., Hind, D.J.N., Jongkind, & al. (2023). A Taxonomically-verified and Vouchered Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea. Nature, scientific data 10, Article number: 327: [1]-[12].

Rajbhandari, K.R., Rai, S.K. & Chhetri, R. (2022). A Handbook of the Flowering Plants of Nepal 4: 1-522. Department of Plant Resources, Thapathali, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Sosef, M.S.M. & al. (eds.) (2022). Flore du Gabon 58: 1-150. Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris; Margraf Publishers, Weikersheim; Meise Botanic Garden.

VERNACULAR NAME

Bengali: বিলাতি তুলাস Bilati tulas
Bihari: Bhunsuri
Burmese: ကူနူး ဘူတီ
Chinese (simplified): 山香
Chinese (traditional): 山香 - 香苦草 - 山粉圓
English: Kunu buti, Wide spikenard, Hyptis, Pignut, Bukumbar
Filipino: Amotan, Suob-kabayo, Loko-loko
Hindi: विलायती तुलसी Vilaiti tulsi
Indonesian: Gringsingan
Japanese: ニオイニガクサ
Java: Lampesan, Gringsingan
Kannada: Ganga tulasi, Vilaayati tulasi
Khmer: គុនូ ប៊ូទី
Lao: ຄູນູ ບູຕິ
Madura: Salangkèng, Mang-kamang
Malayalam: Naatta poochedi
Malaysia: Malbar hutan, Selaseh hutan, Pokok kemangi
Manipuri: Tukuma, Erik lei
Marathi: Bhustrena, Darp tulas, Jungli tulas
Melayu: Ruku-ruku
Nepali: बान बावारी - थुलो मिर्रे Ban Baawaree, Thulo Mirre
Oriya: Ganga tulasi
Portuguese: Mentrasto-guaçu, Alfazema-brava, Bamburral, São-pedro-caá, Melissa-de-pison, Cheirosa, Betônica-brava, Pataquera, Betônia-branca, Celine, Mentrasto-do-grande, Erva-cidreira-falsa, Chá-de-frança, Salva-limão
Sanskrit: Bhustrena, Bhustrna
Sinhala: නාට්ටා පූචෙඩි Nāṭṭā pūceḍi
Slovak: Mätohlávok voňavý
Spanish: Chan, Confiturilla
Sunda: Jukut bau
Tamil: நாட்டா பூச்சேடி Nāṭṭā pūccēṭi
Telugu: Sirna tulasi
Thai: แมงลักคา
Vietnam: Hạt dẻ

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