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Strobilanthes microstachya
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Family:
ACANTHACEAE
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Citation: Strobilanthes microstachya Benth. ex Hohen., Flora 33: 557. 1849; Venu in Daniel & Sanjappa (eds.), Fl. India ser. 4, Strobilanthes 149. 2006.
Ruellia punctata Nees in DC., Prodr. 11: 147. 1847.
Strobilanthes anceps Nees var. microstachya (Benth. ex Hohen.) Clarke in Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 442. 1884; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1038. 1924.
Nilgirianthus punctatus (Nees) Bremek., Verh. Acad. Wet. afd. Natuurk. Sect 2, 41: 174. 1944, non Strobilanthes punctatus Nees 1847; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 307. 1984; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 209. 1988; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 29.1996; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 385. 2005.
Strobilanthes anceps auct. non Nees 1847: Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 520. 1997.
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Description:
Slender subshrubs, to 60 cm high, soft-glandular-hairy; stems quadrangular with acute angles, hirsute. Leaves opposite, unequal, ca 8 x 4 cm, ovate-elliptic to lanceolate, acute, attenuate or cuneate at base, subentire or minutely repand or wavy at margin, acute or acuminate at apex, lineolate above, more hairy and less glandular beneath; petioles ca 4 cm long, hairy. Inflorescence dense spikes; peduncles flattened, variable in length, 2-4 cm long, white-hairy or fulvous-glandular-hairy; bracts leafy, ovate-elliptic, acute, ca 2 x 0.5 cm, rosulate, faintly reflexed, lineolate, glandular-hairy; bracteoles linear-lanceolate, ca 5 mm long, ciliate at margin, red-punctate, hairy above. Calyx usually deeply 5-lobed; lobes subequal, lanceolate, acute, ca 5 mm long, ciliate at margin. Corolla infundibuliform, white; tube insignificant, ca 3 mm long; upper part ventricose, ca 1.1 cm, pubescent outside and with a tuft of white hairs above anthers inside, 5-lobed; lobes equal, ca 3 x 5 mm. Stamens 4, all fertile; filaments united into a sheath adhering to corolla tube, nearly glabrous; longer filaments ca 4 mm long; short ones ca 2 mm long; anthers oblong, muticose. Ovary ca 3 mm long, on a disk of ca 0.5 mm long, 2-loculed with 2 ovules in each; style linear, ca 1 cm long, glabrous. Capsules oblong-ellipsoid, ca 1.5 cm long, thin-walled, glandular-hairy; seeds 4 on retinaculae, complanate, slightly shallow on one side, ca 5 x 4 mm, glabrous, encircled by a membrane, ex-areolate.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
July-April
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District(s):
Idukki, Malappuram, Palakkad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Undergrowth in hill forests
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Distribution:
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
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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:
Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
-1600
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