Platostoma

Also known as Mesona

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.

In the Vinony graph

Within Vinony's link graph, Platostoma is referenced by 18 other articles, and connects out to Nepetoideae, Australia and Africa.

It is catalogued under topics including Lamiaceae, Lamiaceae genera and Taxa named by Palisot de Beauvois.

Its subject is documented across 15 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

GENUS

KingdomPlantae
PhylumTracheophyta
ClassMagnoliopsida
OrderLamiales
FamilyLamiaceae

Observations recorded7,798

General: the Platostoma group see Paton (1997). In some species, the habit

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Museum specimens

Specimen records: 90
With media: 86
Family: Lamiaceae
Collections: NY, MO, A, MEL, O, MNHN
Recorded in: Tanzania, Thailand, Laos, India, China, Madagascar, Gabon, Australia

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: taxon
Parent taxon: Ociminae
Image: Platostoma africanum P. Beauv, crop.jpg

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taxon name: Platostoma
taxon rank: genus
GRIN URL: npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomygenus.aspx?id=9499
topic's main category: Category:Platostoma
Commons category: Platostoma
taxon common name: 逐风草属
taxon synonym: Acrocephalus

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Encyclopedic overview

13 sections

Contents

Description
Taxonomy
Subgenus ''Acrocephalus''
Section ''Acrocephalus''
Section ''Heterodonta''
Subgenus ''Octomeron''
Subgenus ''Platostoma''
Section ''Platostoma''
Section ''Ceratanthus''
Section ''Limniboza''
Section ''Mesona''
References
External links

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.

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