MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH376 : Dopatrium lobelioides (Retz.) Benth. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 42 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Narnala fort - on the margins of lake | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Scrophulariaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Lobelia Dopatrium | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Gratiola hyssopioides Roxb. Gratiola lobelioides Retz. |
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| Description : | Stem up to 80 cm high, spongy, thickened below. Radical leaves mostly crowded at base of stem, oblong-lanceolate to oblong, 3.2-5.5 x 1-1.7 cm, subacute at apex, cauline ones distant, 0.7-2 x 0.5-0.9 cm; all parallel-nerved. Panicles up to 22.5 cm long. Bracts ovate-oblong, up to 2 x 1 mm, becoming red with age. Pedicels 7-17mm, slender, sparsely glandular-pubescent. Calyx tube 1.5 mm long, minutely and sparsely glandular-hirsute without; lobes oblong, 1.5 x 1 mm. Corolla 10-13 mm long, pale bluish-purple; tube 5 mm long, minutely glandular-hispid without; throat sparsely scabrid; lower lip upto 14 mm across, midlobe broadly obovate, faintly 2-lobed, often with a large white blotch at base. Stamens inserted at top of corolla tube; filaments 1 mm long. Hypogynous disk pale yellow. Style short; lamellae of stigma broadly triangular-rhomboid. Capsule globose, 1.5-4 x 1.5-3 mm, tipped by withered style, glabrous; seeds oblong-cuneiform, 0.6 mm long, longitudinally ribbed, transversely rugose between ribs, blackish-brown. | |||||||||||||
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| Reference : | ~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Additions to the Flora of Melghat (some rare and uncommon plants)"; The Directorate Project Tiger, Melghat (1998); Technical Bulletin No. VII PMID : |
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