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| Family | Plantaginaceae (also placed in Scrophulariaceae; Veronicaceae) |
| Tribe | Gratioleae |
| Scientific name | Limnophila aromatica (Lamarck) Merrill |
| Synonyms | Ambulia aromatica Lamarck; Ambulia gratissima (Blume) Nakai ex Furumi; Antirrhinum aquaticum Loureiro; Gratiola aromatica (Lamarck) Persoon; Limnophila aromaticoides Yang & Yen; Limnophila chinensis (Osbeck) Merrill subsp. aromatica (Lamarck) T. Yamazaki; Limnophila gratissima Blume; Limnophila punctata Blume; Limnophila punctata Blume var. subracemosa Bentham; Terebinthina aromatica (Lamarck) Kuntze |
| Common name | (Japanese common name) shiso-kusa (シソクサ, 紫蘇草 [meaning: perilla weed]) |
| (English common name) none | |
| Distribution | (Japan) Honshu (west of Kanto region), Shikoku, Kyushu, Okinawa |
| (Other nations) Korea, China, Taiwan, Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Micronesia, Myanmar, Bhutan, India | |
| Habitat | Swamp |
| Chromosomal number | 2n=68 |
| Description | Plants 10-30cm tall. Leaves 10-25mm long, 3-10mm wide. Flowers white (or merely pink) corollas 8-11mm, flowering in September to October. Annual plants. |
| Reference | Limnophila aromatica (Lamarck) Merrill |
| Limnophila chinensis (Osbeck) Merr. subsp. aromatica (Lam.) T. Yamaz. | |
| Method of decreasing a sessile bivalve population (US Patent 20040234629) | |
| Aquatic plant product and method for making growth-sustaining plant matrix (US Patent 20060030489) |
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