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Cuphea hyssopifolia
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Family:
LYTHRACEAE
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Citation: Cuphea hyssopifolia Kunth in HBK, Nov. Gen. Sp. 6: 199. 1824.
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Malayalam Name(s):
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Mexican False Heather
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Description:
Erect to spreading subshrubs; stems 3-5 dm long, many-branched, puberulent and reddish strigose, the hairs sometimes spreading. Leaves 10-30 x 1.5-4 mm, linear, sometimes the larger ones linear-elliptic, 1-nerved, subsessile. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils, pedicels 2-7 mm long; floral tube pale green, sometimes becoming purplish toward apex, 5-8 m long, glabrous or with a few stiff hairs. Calyx teeth triangular. Petals 6, pale purple or white, ca. 3-3.5 mm long. Stamens included and inserted in 2 unequal whorls on the floral tube. Capsules oblong-ovoid, 1-celled, ca. 3.5 mm long; seeds reddish brown, suborbicular, ca. 1-1.5 mm in diameter, pitted.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
May-September
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grown as garden plant
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Distribution:
Native of America
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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):
Pink
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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:
Devicolam
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