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Strobilanthes andersonii
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Family:
ACANTHACEAE
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Citation: Strobilanthes andersonii Bedd., Madras J. Lit. Sci. III, 1: 55 1864; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 450. 1884; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1042. 1924.
Didyplosandra andersonii (Bedd.) Bremek, Verh. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch. Afd. Natuurk. Tweede Sect. 41: 269. 1944.
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Description:
Large shrubs, to 4 m high; stems terete, hirsute; branches hairy above. Leaves ca. 16 x 10 cm, ovate-rhomboid, rounded or subcordate at base, crenulate at margin, acute at apex, membranous, villous, lineaolate; secondary veins 5- pairs, turning uwards, parallell; leaves of opposite pair often unequal; petioles ca. 4 cm long, hairy. Inflorescens spikes, axillary, ca. 5 cm long, erect or nodding; bracts leafy, ovate, rounded, concave, ca. 2 cm, ciliate, glabrous; bracteoles linear-oblanceolate, ca. 2 cm, ciliate. Calyx linear-oblong, ca. 2 cm long, divided almost to base, ciliate. Corolla subcampanulate, contracted, subsymmetric, ca. 2.5 cm long, glabrous, pale blue; lobes subequal, orbicular, emarginate, finely blue veined. Stamens 4, subequal; staminal sheath of filaments short, glabrous, truncate; filaments arising from same height, glabrous; anthers sagittate. Ovary on a disc, glabrous; style slender, ca. 2.2 cm long, glabrous.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
August-November
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District(s):
Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Shola forests
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats
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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:
Southern Western Ghats
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