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Barleria cuspidata
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Family:
ACANTHACEAE
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Citation: Barleria cuspidata F.Heyne ex Nees, Pl. Asiat. Rar. 3: 93. 1832; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 483. 1884; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1058(741). 1924 .
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Description:
Perennial armed shrubs, up to 1 m high; stems terete or obscurely 4-angled; nodes bristled; thorns 2-4, axillary, up to 2 cm long. Leaves opposite, 6-14.5 x 2 -6 cm, ovate-elliptic, attenuate at base, acuminate at apex, glabrescent, pale beneath; midrib grooved above; lateral nerves 3-6 pairs; petioles 5-10 mm long. Floral leaves narrow and smaller, cuspidate at apex. Flowers solitary or crowded at axils of upper nodes, 6-6.5 cm long; bracts linear-lanceolate, 1-2.2 x 0.2-0.5 cm, cuspidate at apex, appressed white-pubescent. Outer sepals ovate-lanceolate, sub-equal, 1.5-2.5 x 0.5-0.8 cm, cuspidate at apex, glandular-pubescent inside, palmately nerved; inner sepals linear-lanceolate, as long as the outer, 3-4 mm across, acute at apex. Corolla blipped, yellow; tube ca 2 cm long, bent at base, hairy outside; lobes oblong or oblong-obovate, 2-3 x 1-1.5 cm, obtuse at apex. Fertile stamens 2, exserted; filaments 4.8-5.5 cm long, flat, hairy at base; anthers ca 4 mm long; sterile stamens 2, 1-2 mm long; filaments hairy; anthers ca 1 mm long, hairy; staminode absent. Ovary ovoid, 3-4 mm long, glabrous; style slender, 5.5-6.5 cm long; stigma ovate, ca 1 mm long, papillate. Capsules ovoid, 1.5-2 x 0.6-0.8 cm; seeds ovoid, 8.5-10.8 x 6.5-8 mm, subcordate at base, compressed on one side, with silky appressed hairs, copper-brown.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
August-March
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District(s):
Idukki, Kollam, Alappuzha
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
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):
Yellow, White, 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:
Peninsular India
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