Platostoma
Sign in to savePlatostoma is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described as a genus in 1818. It is native to tropical parts of Africa, southern Asia, Papuasia, and Australia. Mesona and Acrocephalus has been known as its synonyms.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderLamiales
- FamilyLamiaceae
General: the Platostoma group see Paton (1997). In some species, the habit
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Article
13 sectionsContents
- Description
- Taxonomy
- Subgenus ''Acrocephalus''
- Section ''Acrocephalus''
- Section ''Heterodonta''
- Subgenus ''Octomeron''
- Subgenus ''Platostoma''
- Section ''Platostoma''
- Section ''Ceratanthus''
- Section ''Limniboza''
- Section ''Mesona''
- References
- External links
Platostoma is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described as a genus in 1818. It is native to tropical parts of Africa, southern Asia, Papuasia, and Australia. Mesona and Acrocephalus has been known as its synonyms.
A widely consumed species in this genus is Platostoma palustre (synonyms Mesona chinensis, M. elegans, and M. procumbens), or xiancao (仙草) in Mandarin, sian-chháu (仙草) in Taiwanese, leung fun cho (涼粉草) in Cantonese, sương sáo in Vietnamese, and cincau in Indonesian and Malay. It is eaten as a snack in drinks, or set as a gel and served as a grass jelly.