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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH184 : Lindernia parviflora (Roxb.) Haines

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 358  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Scrophulariales
Family : Scrophulariaceae - Figwort family
Genus : Lindernia All. - false pimpernel
Species : Lindernia parviflora
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : IUCN Red List - Least Concern  
Plant Family : Scrophulariaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Small-Flowered Lindernia,
 
Synonym : Gratiola parviflora Roxb.
Ilysanthes parviflora (Roxb.) Benth.
Ilysanthes radicans Pilg.
Description : Decumbent herbs, 10-20 cm high; stems glabrous. Leaves to 1.5 x 0.7 cm, ovate, acute, entire, sessile; nerves 3 pairs. Flowers in terminal racemes or upper axillary; bracts 5 x 3 mm, ovate; pedicel deflexed in fruit, 1.5 cm long; sepals 3 mm long, connate at base; corolla 6 mm long; upper lip bifurcated at apex; lower lip obtusely 3-lobed; staminodes with lateral vermiform appendages. Capsule 5 x 2.5 mm, ovoid, glabrous; seeds 0.3 mm long, obovoid, yellow, glabrous.
 
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Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :