Cat Whiskers
Orthosiphon aristatus or known by the name cat's whiskers, including plants from the family Lamiaceae / Labiatae [1]. This plant is one of Indonesia's native medicinal plants which has quite a lot of benefits and uses in overcoming various diseases.
Characteristic features
A cat's whiskers in bloom
The cat's whiskers are erect, rooted at the bottom of the books and up to 2 meters high. Rectangular stems slightly grooved short hair or bald.
Leaf-shaped round or oval, lanceolate, ovate or rhombus starting from the base, leaf size 1 - 10 cm long and 7.5mm - 1.5 cm wide. leaf veins along the edge of thin hair or bald, where both surfaces are mottled because of the large number of glands, petiole length 7 - 29 cm. The characteristics of the plant are in the glandular flower petals, the veins and the base of the hair are short and sparse, while the upper part is bald. Lip flower, a terminal crown that is in the form of bunches that come out of the end of a branch with a length of 7-29 cm, with a length of 13-27 mm, at the top it is covered by short purple hairs and then becomes white, tube length 10 - 18mm, long 4.5 - 10mm lips, blunt, rounded strands. The stamens are longer than the flawer tube and exceed the upper lip of the flower. Geluk fruit dark brown, 1.75 - 2mm long. 2.3. hilt short and sparse, 1 mm to 6 mm long.
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