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Angelonia salicariaefolia
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Family:
SCROPHULARIACEAE
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Citation: Angelonia salicariaefolia Humb. & Bonpl., Pl. Aequim 2: 92. t.108. 1812; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 254. 1985; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 288. 1989; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 509. 1990; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 490. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 590. 2009.
Angelonia biflora Benth. in DC., Prodr. 10: 254. 1846; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 354. 2005.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Aamappoovu
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Tamil name(s):
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Description:
Viscid-pubescent herb with a perennial rootstock. Stem upto 1.30 m high, branched below, densely glandular-hispid. Leaves opposite throughout, lanceolate to lanceolate-oblong, 3-10 x 0.5-1.2 cm, narrowed at base, acute at apex, shallowly serrate at margins, penninerved, minutely glandular-hirsute on both surfaces. Flowers opposite, becoming racemose above. Bracts foliaceous, upto 4 x 0.6 cm, acuminate. Pedicels 12-15 mm, slender, cernuous, densely glandular-hispid. Sepals ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 4-5 x 1.5-2 mm, acuminate at apex, glandular-hispid without, closed in after anthesis. Corolla purplish-blue; tube very short; limb widely cupular, upto 2.2 cm across, faux spotted dark violet within; upper lip 4-lobed, lobes suborbicular, with yellow glandular hairs at bases on upper surface; lower lip upto 1.2 cm long, concave at base, with a white emarginate tongue-shaped appendix at lower margin of cavity and two small tubercles at upper. Filaments thickened, incurved, pilose; anthers pale blue. Style glabrous. Capsule globose, 3-6 mm in diam., tipped with withered style, longer than calyx, sparsely puberulent; seeds oblong-cuneiform, 1 mm long, 4-5 angular, reticulately foveolate.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-August
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grown as ornamental plant
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Distribution:
Native of South America; now naturalised in tropics
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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, Violet, White
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
Yes
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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:
Vetchuchira, Pappinisseri, Parappa, Payyanur, Kerikkad
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