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Strobilanthes sessilis var. sessiloides
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Family:
ACANTHACEAE
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Citation: Strobilanthes sessilis Nees var. sessiloides (Wight) Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 452. 1884; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1043(731). 1924; Venu in Daniel & Sanjappa (eds.), Fl. India ser. 4, Strobilanthes 179. 2006.
Strobilanthes sessiloides Wight, Ic. t. 512. 1850.
Pleocaulus sessilis (Nees) Bremek. var. sessiloides (Wight) Vajr., Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 358. 1990.
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Description:
Subshrubs; stems hardly tetragonous, not winged. Leaves opposite, up to 3.5 cm long, thicker, ovate, subcordate, crenate, rugose or bullate, glandular-hairy, acute; main nerves 6-7 pairs, with prominent nerves; petioles not auricled. Spikes longer 2.5-7.5 cm long. Flowers blue, in cylindric one-sided spikes; bracts usually rounded and concave, ovate, acute or cuspidate, softly hairy. Corolla funnel-shaped, 2.5 cm long. Stamens 4 fertile, usually monadelphous; filament sheath straight, filaments combined below in a sheath more or less adherent to the corolla-tube, but the margins usually free; outer anthers larger than inner. Ovary 2-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; style linear. Fruit 2 or 4 seeded capsule; seeds hairy when wet, except on the areoles.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
December-
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District(s):
Wayanad, Thiruvananthapuram, Palakkad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grasslands
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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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Altitude:
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Localities:
Silent Valley R. F.
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