''Anisomeles'' is a

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of the family

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and is native to China, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia, Madagascar, and some Pacific and Indian Ocean islands.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref>Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 188, 广防风属 guang fang feng shu, ''Anisomeles'' R. Brown, Prodr. 503. 1810.
/ref> Plants in the genus ''Anisomeles'' have small, flat, narrow elliptic to narrow e.g.-shaped leaves arranged in opposite pairs, the edges of the leaves sometimes wavy or serrated. The flowers are arranged in groups, with five

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s and five petals in two "lips", the lower lip with three lobes, the middle lobe much longer than the side lobes. There are four

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s that extend beyond the petals and a single

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in a depression on top of the

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. The fruit is a

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with four nutlets containing small seeds.

Taxonomy

The genus ''Anisomeles'' was first formally described in 1810 by

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''. The name ''Anisomeles'' means "unequal limbs", referring to the petal lobes.

Species list

The following is a list of species of ''Anisomeles'' accepted by

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as of March 2021: * '' Anisomeles ajugacea'' (

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- Queensland * '' Anisomeles antrorsa'' A.R.Bean - Queensland * '' Anisomeles bundelensis'' A.R.Bean - Northern Territory * '' Anisomeles candicans''

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- Myanmar, Thailand * '' Anisomeles carpentarica'' A.R.Bean - Northern Territory, Queensland * '' Anisomeles eriodes'' A.R.Bean - Queensland * '' Anisomeles farinacea'' A.R.Bean - Northern Territory, Western Australia * '' Anisomeles grandibracteata'' A.R.Bean - Northern Territory * ''

Anisomeles indica ''Anisomeles indica'', or catmint, is a species of herbaceous plant native to eastern Asia East Asia is a geocultural region of Asia. It includes China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan, plus two special administrative ...

'' ( L.) Kuntze - China, Tibet, Himalayas, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldive Islands, Lakshadweep, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, New Guinea, Christmas Island, Bismarck Archipelago, Mauritius, Madagascar; naturalized in Fiji, Samoa, Jamaica, Trinidad * '' Anisomeles inodora'' R.Br. - Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia * '' Anisomeles languida'' A.R.Bean - Queensland * '' Anisomeles leucotricha'' A.R.Bean - Northern Territory * '' Anisomeles macdonaldii'' A.R.Bean - Queensland * ''

Anisomeles malabarica ''Anisomeles malabarica'', more commonly known as the Malabar catmint, is a species of herbaceous shrub in the family Lamiaceae. It is native to tropical and subtropical regions of India, and Sri Lanka, but can also be found in Malaysia, Banglad ...

'' (L.) R.Br. ex Sims - India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, Mauritius, Réunion, northern Australia * '' Anisomeles ornans'' A.R.Bean - Queensland * '' Anisomeles papuana'' A.R.Bean - Bismarck Archipelago, Maluku, New Guinea, Queensland * ''

Anisomeles principis ''Anisomeles'' is a genus of Herbaceous plant, herbs of the family Lamiaceae and is native to China, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia, Madagascar, and some Pacific and Indian Ocean islands. Plants in the genus ''Anis ...

'' A.R.Bean - Lesser Sunda Is., Western Australia * '' Anisomeles tirunelveliensis'' Rajakumar, Selvak. & S.Murug. - India * '' Anisomeles viscidula'' A.R.Bean - Northern Territory, Western Australia * '' Anisomeles vulpina'' A.R.Bean - Queensland * '' Anisomeles × intermedia''

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ex Benth. - India

References

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