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Ecbolium viride var. viride
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Family:
ACANTHACEAE
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Citation: Ecbolium viride (Forssk.) Alston in Trimen, Handb. Fl. Ceyl. 6: 229. 1931, var. viride; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 302. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 277. 1985; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 203. 1988; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 300. 1989; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 273. 1995; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 234. 1999; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 378. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 536. 2009.
Justicia viridis Forssk., Fl. Aeg. Ar. 5. 1774. 1983.
Justicia rotundifolia Nees in Wall., Pl. Asiat. Rar. 3: 108. 1832.
Ecbolium linneanum Kurz var. rotundifolia (Nees) Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 545. 1885; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1074(752). 1924.
Ecbolium viride (Forssk.) Alston var. rotundifolia (Nees) Raizada, Indian For. Rec. 84: 482. 1958; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 217. 1982.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Koranda, Neelakarinkurunji, Odiyamadantha
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Blue fox tail
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Description:
Woody undershrubs. Leaves opposite, 3-4 x 2-2.5 cm, sessile, ovate, acute, base truncate, puberulous. Flowers in dense terminal spikes; bracts shortly aristate, broadly ovate, minutely dentate, shortly acuminate, 2 x 1.5 cm. Calyx 5-partite, connate below; lobes linear. Corolla tube very long and slender, bluish-green; limb 2-lipped, the upper lip narrow, shortly 2-fid, the lower 3-lobed with broad pendent lobes. Stamens 2, attached near the top of the tube; anthers 2 celled, parallel. Fruit an ovoid compressed capsule narrowed into a solid stalk; seeds on curved retinacula.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
November-February
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District(s):
Kottayam, Alappuzha, Idukki, Kasaragode, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Palakkad, Kozhikkode
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Medicinal:
Yes
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Habitat:
Dry deciduous forests, also in the plains
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Distribution:
Indo-Malesia and Africa
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Blue
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Alampetty, Aluvamkudi, Aruvanpara, Panathur, Taliparamba, Parappa, Alappuzha beach, Pooyamkutty, Thenmalai
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