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.

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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Contents

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

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Platostoma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.