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Strobilanthes ixiocephalus
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Family:
ACANTHACEAE
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Citation: Strobilanthes ixiocephalus Benth., Flora 33: 557. 1849; Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 444. 1884; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1041 (730). 1924; Venu in Daniel & Sanjappa (eds.), Fl. India ser. 4, Strobilanthes 123. 2006.
Strobilanthes neesiana Wight, Ic. t. 1523. 1850.
Thelepaepale ixiocephala (Benth.) Bremek., Verh. Acad. Wet. afd. Natuurk. Sect. 2, 41: 188. 1944.
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Description:
Semierect shrubs, ca 1 m high; stems subtetragonal, sulcate, hairy, glabrous when old. Leaves simple, opposite, unequal, to 12 x 5 cm, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate at apex, attenuate or cuneate at base, crenate at margin, chartaceous, hispid above and on secondary veins beneath, densely lineolate on both surfaces; lateral nerves 6-12 pairs, parallel, slender, prominent, joining along margin; petioles ca 4 cm long, hairy. Inflorescence short spikes, ovoid, solitary, axillary or in axillary or terminally clustered, branched cymes, viscid; bracts ovate, acute or acuminate, ca 1.2 cm long, penninerved, glandular-hairy; bracteoles linear-obovate, ca 7 mm long, glandular-hairy. Calyx divided to the base, ca 1 cm long; lobes linear, equal, obtuse, glandular-hairy, enlarged in fruit. Corolla tubular-ventricose, ca 2 cm long, pubescent outside, hairy inside, pale blue or white; tubular portion short, ca 3 mm long; lobes obovate-oblong, apiculate at tip, ca 6 mm long. Stamens 4, monadelphous, included; staminal sheath truncate, hairy; longer filaments ca 5 mm long; short filaments ca 2 mm long. Ovary on a prominent disc, glabrous; style glabrous, ca 1.5 cm long; stigma slightly bulged above. Capsules obovoid, ca 1.2 cm long, narrowed at base, compressed, mucronate, included, glabrous; seeds 2, ovoid, flattened, 3.5 mm across, hygroscopically hairy and very densely along margin.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
November-January
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District(s):
Palakkad, Kozhikkode, Kannur
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
From planis to hill and in shady situations
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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):
White, 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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