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Holmskioldia sanguinea f. sanguinea
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Family:
VERBENACEAE
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Citation: Holmskioldia sanguinea Retz., Obs. Bot. 6: 31. 1791, f. sanguinea; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 501. 1885; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1106(774). 1924; Rajendran & Daniel, Indian Verbenaceae 173. 2002; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 569. 2009.
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Malayalam Name(s):
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Chinese hat, Cup and Saucer, Mandarins hat, Parasol Flower
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Description:
A large, evergreen, scandent shrub with slightly pubescent, quadrangular, young branches. Leaves ovate or elliptic-ovate, 5-12 cm long, 2.5-8 cm broad, entire to coarsely dentate, shortly acuminate, pubescent to glabrous; petiole 1.5-3 cm long; bracts lanceolate, 4-5 mm long. Cymes axillary, pedunculate. Flowers brick-red to orange, c. 6 mm across; pedicels c. 5 mm long. Calyx petaloid, c. 1.5 cm across. Corolla-tube curved, broadening upwards; limb sub-bilabiate unequally 5-lobed. Drupe 5-8 mm long, obovoid, 4-lobed, subfleshy, enclosed by persistent, enlarged, coloured calyx.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
Throughout the year
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District(s):
Wayanad, Idukki, Palakkad, Thrissur
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grown as garden plants
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Distribution:
Himalaya to Myanmar, widely cultivated elsewere
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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):
Red
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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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