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Strobilanthes papillosus
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Family:
ACANTHACEAE
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Citation: Strobilanthes papillosus Anders., J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 9: 468. 1867; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 445. 1884; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1039(728). 1924; Venu in Daniel & Sanjappa (eds.), Fl. India ser. 4, Strobilanthes 159. 2006.
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Description:
Shrub, ca 3 m high; stems more or less quandrangular, much scabrous, acutely so and very rough with short harsh hairs when young. Leaves opposite, ca 6 x 4 cm,ovate, cuneate or acute at base, serrate at margin, acute at apex, hispid with bulbous- based hairs on both surfaces; petioles 3-5 cm long, sulcate above. Inflorescence spikes, terminal and axillary, capitate, leafy, ca 5 cm long; peduncles ca 4 cm long, thickened above, acutely quandrangular, very scabrous; floral bracts ca 5 cm long, overlapping head; bracts leafy, lanceolate, very rigid, scabrous, papillose; bracteoles narrowly lanceolate, ca 2 cm long, membranous, ciliate. Calyx divided nearly to base; lobes linear-lanceolate, very acute, ca 2.5 cm, membranous, ciliate. Corolla tubular-ventricose, subsymmetric, glabrescent, blue; tube ca 2 mm long; ventricose portion ca 2.3 cm long; lobes obovate-orbicular or rounded, veined. Stamens 4; staminal sheath hairy at margin; filaments glabrous; two central ones shorter, included. Ovary thinly hairy at tip; style ca 2 cm long, hairy. Capsules ca 2.5 cm long, glabrous, minutely stalked; seeds 2, ovoid, ca 1.2 cm across, glabrous, exareolate.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
October-November
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District(s):
Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Shola forests
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Distribution:
Southern 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):
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:
Southern Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
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