| Platostoma | |
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| Platostoma africanum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Lamiaceae |
| Subfamily: | Nepetoideae |
| Tribe: | Ocimeae |
| Genus: | Platostoma P.Beauv. (1818) |
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51; see text | |
| Synonyms | |
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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.
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.
In Indonesia the Platostoma palustre leaf is used to make a black jelly; there is also an instant powder variety available.
Species
51 species are accepted.
- Platostoma africanum P.Beauv — tropical Africa, southern India, Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia
- Platostoma albiflorum Suddee, A.J.Paton & J.Parn. – Thailand
- Platostoma annamense (G.Taylor) A.J.Paton — Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia
- Platostoma axillaris (Benth.) A.J.Paton — Assam
- Platostoma becquerelii Suddee & A.J.Paton — Cambodia
- Platostoma busbanianum Suddee, A.J.Paton & J.Parn. – Thailand
- Platostoma calcaratum (Hemsl.) A.J.Paton — southern China, northern Indochina
- Platostoma cambodgense Suddee & A.J.Paton — Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos
- Platostoma clausum (Merr.) A.J.Paton — Culion Island in Philippines
- Platostoma cochinchinense (Lour.) A.J.Paton — southern China, Indochina, Java, Sumatra
- Platostoma coeruleum (R.E.Fr.) A.J.Paton — Angola, Zambia
- Platostoma coloratum (D.Don) A.J.Paton — Yunnan, eastern Himalayas, northern Indochina
- Platostoma denticulatum Robyns — central Africa from Cameroon east to Tanzania and south to Angola
- Platostoma dilungense (Lisowski & Mielcarek) A.J.Paton — Zaïre, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi
- Platostoma elongatum (Benth.) A.J.Paton — Sri Lanka, southern India
- Platostoma fastigiatum A.J.Paton & Hedge — Madagascar
- Platostoma fimbriatum A.J.Paton — Thailand
- Platostoma gabonense A.J.Paton — Cameroon, Gabon, Tanzania
- Platostoma glomerulatum A.J.Paton & Hedge — Madagascar
- Platostoma grandiflorum Suddee & A.J.Paton — eastern Indochina
- Platostoma helenae (Buscal. & Muschl.) ined.. — Mozambique
- Platostoma hemratianum Suddee, Puudjaa & Kiewbang – Thailand
- Platostoma hildebrandtii (Vatke) A.J.Paton & Hedge — Kenya, Tanzania
- Platostoma hispidum (L.) A.J.Paton — Southeast Asia, southern China, Assam, New Guinea
- Platostoma intermedium A.J.Paton — Thailand
- Platostoma kerrii Suddee & A.J.Paton — Thailand, Cambodia
- Platostoma lanceolatum (Chermsir. ex Murata) A.J.Paton — Thailand
- Platostoma laxiflorum A.J.Paton & Hedge — Madagascar
- Platostoma leptochilon Robyns — Zaïre
- Platostoma longicorne (F.Muell.) A.J.Paton — Queensland, New Guinea
- Platostoma madagascariense (Benth.) A.J.Paton & Hedge — Madagascar
- Platostoma mekongense Suddee — Thailand
- Platostoma menthoides (L.) A.J.Paton — Sri Lanka, southern India
- Platostoma montanum (Robyns) A.J.Paton — Zaïre, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi
- Platostoma ocimoides (G.Taylor) A.J.Paton — Thailand, Cambodia
- Platostoma ovatum Suddee, A.J.Paton & J.Parn. – Thailand
- Platostoma palniense (Mukerjee) A.J.Paton — southern India
- Platostoma palustre (Blume) A.J.Paton — Southeast Asia, southern China, Assam, Bangladesh, New Guinea
- Platostoma parnellianum Suddee, A.J.Paton & Kiewbang – Thailand
- Platostoma rotundifolium (Briq.) A.J.Paton — tropical and southern Africa
- Platostoma rubrum Suddee & A.J.Paton — Thailand, Laos
- Platostoma siamense (Murata) A.J.Paton — Thailand
- Platostoma stoloniferum (G.Taylor) A.J.Paton — Thailand, Laos
- Platostoma strictum (Hiern) A.J.Paton — Zaïre, Angola, Zambia, Malawi
- Platostoma taiwanense S.S.Ying – Taiwan
- Platostoma taylorii Suddee & A.J.Paton — Thailand, Cambodia
- Platostoma tectum A.J.Paton — Thailand, Cambodia, Laos
- Platostoma tenellum (Benth.) A.J.Paton & Hedge — Madagascar
- Platostoma thymifolium (Benth.) A.J.Paton & Hedge — Madagascar
- Platostoma tridechii Suddee — Thailand
- Platostoma verbenifolium (Watt ex Mukerjee) A.J.Paton — Assam, Bangladesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Myanmar
References
- ^ Platostoma P.Beauv. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- 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.
- 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.
- Flora of China
External links
Media related to Platostoma at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Platostoma at Wikispecies
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| Platostoma | |