Platostoma

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Platostoma
Platostoma africanum P. Beauv, crop.jpg
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Subfamily: Nepetoideae
Tribe:
Genus: Platostoma
P.Beauv.
Synonyms[1]
  • Mesona Blume
  • Acrocephalus Benth.
  • Geniosporum Wall. ex Benth.
  • Nosema Prain
  • Limniboza R.E.Fr.
  • Hemsleia Kudô
  • Ceratanthus F.Muell. ex G.Taylor
  • Octomeron Robyns

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.[1] Mesona[2][3] 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),[4] 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.

In Indonesia the Platostoma palustre leaf is used to make a black jelly; there is also an instant powder variety available.

Species[]

There are about 44-46 accepted species as below[1][5]:

  1. P.Beauv — tropical Africa, southern India, Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia
  2. (G.Taylor) A.J.Paton — Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia
  3. (Benth.) A.J.Paton — Assam
  4. Suddee & A.J.Paton — Cambodia
  5. (Chiov.) ined.. — Ethiopia
  6. (Hemsl.) A.J.Paton — southern China, northern Indochina
  7. Suddee & A.J.Paton — Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos
  8. (Merr.) A.J.Paton — Culion Island in Philippines
  9. (Lour.) A.J.Paton — southern China, Indochina, Java, Sumatra
  10. (R.E.Fr.) A.J.Paton — Angola, Zambia
  11. (D.Don) A.J.Paton — Yunnan, eastern Himalayas, northern Indochina
  12. Robyns — central Africa from Cameroon east to Tanzania and south to Angola
  13. (Lisowski & Mielcarek) A.J.Paton — Zaïre, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi
  14. (Benth.) A.J.Paton — Sri Lanka, southern India
  15. A.J.Paton & Hedge — Madagascar
  16. A.J.Paton — Thailand
  17. A.J.Paton — Cameroon, Gabon, Tanzania
  18. A.J.Paton & Hedge — Madagascar
  19. Suddee & A.J.Paton — eastern Indochina
  20. (Buscal. & Muschl.) ined.. — Mozambique
  21. (Vatke) A.J.Paton & Hedge — Kenya, Tanzania
  22. Platostoma hispidum (L.) A.J.Paton — Southeast Asia, southern China, Assam, New Guinea
  23. A.J.Paton — Thailand
  24. Suddee & A.J.Paton — Thailand, Cambodia
  25. (Chermsir. ex Murata) A.J.Paton — Thailand
  26. A.J.Paton & Hedge — Madagascar
  27. Robyns — Zaïre
  28. (F.Muell.) A.J.Paton — Queensland, New Guinea
  29. (Benth.) A.J.Paton & Hedge — Madagascar
  30. Suddee — Thailand
  31. Platostoma menthoides (L.) A.J.Paton — Sri Lanka, southern India
  32. (Robyns) A.J.Paton — Zaïre, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi
  33. (G.Taylor) A.J.Paton — Thailand, Cambodia
  34. (Mukerjee) A.J.Paton — southern India
  35. Platostoma palustre (Blume) A.J.Paton — Southeast Asia, southern China, Assam, Bangladesh, New Guinea
  36. (Briq.) A.J.Paton — tropical and southern Africa
  37. Suddee & A.J.Paton — Thailand, Laos
  38. (Murata) A.J.Paton — Thailand
  39. (G.Taylor) A.J.Paton — Thailand, Laos
  40. (Hiern) A.J.Paton — Zaïre, Angola, Zambia, Malawi
  41. Suddee & A.J.Paton — Thailand, Cambodia
  42. A.J.Paton — Thailand, Cambodia, Laos
  43. (Benth.) A.J.Paton & Hedge — Madagascar
  44. (Benth.) A.J.Paton & Hedge — Madagascar
  45. Suddee — Thailand
  46. (Watt ex Mukerjee) A.J.Paton — Assam, Bangladesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Myanmar

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ Quattrocchi, Umberto (2012). World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants. CRC Press. p. 2489. ISBN 978-1-4200-8044-5. See Bijdragen tot de flora van Nederlandsch Indië 838. 1826 and Taiwania 43(1):38–58. 1998.
  3. ^ Don, George (1838). General History of the Dichlamydeous Plantus. London. p. 675. from μέσος, mesos, middle; so called because the genus was supposed by the author to be intermediate between Ocimum and Scutellaria.
  4. ^ Flora of China
  5. ^ Platostoma P.Beauv.. In: The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ [2015-7-18].

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