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Rungia crenata
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Family:
ACANTHACEAE
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Citation: Rungia crenata Anders., J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 9: 518. 1867; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 547. 1885; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 271. 1995.
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Description:
Erect herbs. Leaves opposite, to 5 x 2.5 cm, ovate-lanceolate, sparsely hairy. Spikes short, dense, terminal, 1-sided; bracts markedly biform; flowerless bracts in 2 regular series on one side the spike, 8 x 2.5 mm, green, striate, not or very narrowly margined; flowering bracts 4 mm diameter, somewhat hairy; bracteoles 3 mm, obovate, scarious-margined. Calyx small, deeply 5-lobed; segments linear-lanceolate, pubescent. Corolla small, bluish or white; limb 2-lipped, upper lip emarginated, shorter than the lower 3-lobed lip. Stamens 2; anthers 2-celled. Ovary 4-ovulate; style filiform, minutely bifid. Capsule ovoid or oblong, shortly stalked, scarcely 1/6 inch, pubescent; seeds 4, compressed, orbicular, glabrous, verrucose, sometimes minutely, sometimes very strongly, so that the seed is concentrically rugose or subcristate.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-May
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District(s):
Kollam
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grasslands
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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):
Blue, White
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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:
Peninsular India
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