Platostoma menthoides(L.) A.J.Paton

WFO wfo-0000274806 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Platostoma menthoides, photographed by Aravinth
fig. a Aravinth, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-01-10 / obs. 59595959
Platostoma menthoides, photographed by Aravinth
fig. b Aravinth, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59595950
Platostoma menthoides, photographed by Aravinth
fig. c Aravinth, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 51112500
Platostoma menthoides, photographed by Aravinth
fig. d Aravinth, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59595953
Platostoma menthoides, photographed by Aravinth
fig. e Aravinth, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 51112505

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Platostoma menthoides is native: India, Sri Lanka IndiaSri Lanka
Native distribution of Platostoma menthoides, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
India IND ASIA-TROPICAL
Sri Lanka SRL

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 14 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Elsholtzia ocimoides Pers.
  • Geniosporum gracile Benth.
  • Geniosporum menthoides (L.) Druce
  • Geniosporum menthoides var. prostratum (L.) Press & Sivar.
  • Geniosporum prostratum (L.) Benth.
  • Geniosporum prostratum var. longiracemosum Ramam. & Sebastine
  • Geniosporum tenuiflorum var. gracile (Benth.) S.R.Sriniv.
  • Lumnitzera prostrata (L.) Spreng.
  • Mentha ocymoides Lam.
  • Ocimum macrostachyum Poir.
  • Ocimum menthoides L.
  • Ocimum prostratum L.
  • Platostoma menthoides var. longiracemosum (Ramam. & Sebastine) Kottaim.
  • Thymus indicus Burm.f.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.