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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH027 : Linum mysorense Heyne ex Wall.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 63  
Class : Equisetopsida
Order : Malpighiales
Family : Linaceae - Linseed family
Genus : Linum
Species : Linum mysorense Heyne ex Wall.
Plant Location in Melghat : To open grasslands on jchikhaldara and vairat  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Linaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Mysore flax, Mysore linseed, undri
 
Synonym : Linum humile Heyne ex Wall.
Linum mysurense Heyne ex Benth. apud Lindl.
Description : Annual herbs, erect, usually unbranched. Leaves alternate, to 2 x 0.5 cm, elliptic, acute, glabrous, sessile. Flowers yellow, in terminal panicled cymes, sepals 5, 3 x 1.5 mm, ovate, acute; petals 2.5 x 1.5 mm, obovate, emarginate; stamens 5, filaments united at base into a short tube, anthers ovate; ovary 5-celled, depressed globose; ovule 1 in each cell; styles 5, free, 2 mm long. Fruit a dehiscent capsule, 3 mm across, depressed globose, glabrous; seeds many, 1 x 0.5 mm, biconvex.
 
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Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :