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Eranthemum roseum
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Family:
ACANTHACEAE
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Citation: Eranthemum roseum (Vahl) R. Br., Prodr. 1: 477. 1810; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1024(719). 1924; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 278. 1985.
Justicia rosea Vahl, Enum. Pl. 1: 165. 1804.
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Description:
A shrub up to 1.8 m tall. Leaves opposite, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 12-20 cm long and 3.8-7.5 cm wide, lineolate on both sides, margins entire or crenulate, base tapering into petiole. Flowers blue or rose-coloured with a strong, fetid odour, borne in linear, lax, axillary and terminal spikes up to 15 cm long. Bracts 1.6 cm long, obovate, white with very prominent raised green nerves. Fruit (capsule) 1.3 cm long, clavate, pointed, glabrous. Seeds 3-4 mm in diam., hygroscopically hairy, densely so on the margins.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
November-May
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District(s):
Kasaragode
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Deciduous forests and scrub jungles
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Distribution:
Peninsular India
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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):
Pink, 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:
Parappa, Taliparamba
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