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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH395 : Murdannia semiteres (Dalzell) Santapau

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 62  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Commelinales
Family : Commelinaceae
Genus : Murdania
Species : Murdannia semiteres (Dalzell) Santapau
Plant Location in Melghat : Massondi - Semadoh road  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : Red List Category - Least Concern  
Plant Family : Commelinaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Panicled Dewflower, Nelam-pullu
 
Synonym : Aneilema paniculatum Wall. ex C.B.Clarke, nom. illeg.
Aneilema semiteres Dalzell.
Commelina bulbosa B.Heyne ex Steud., nom. inval.
Commelina nimmoniana J.Graham ex C.B.Clarke
Dichoespermum paniculatum Hassk. ex C.B.Clarke, nom. inval.
Dichoespermum semiteres (Dalzell) Hassk.
Murdannia nimmoniana (J.Graham ex C.B.Clarke) Bole & M.R.Almeida.
Murdannia paniculata (Wall. ex C.B.Clarke) G.Brückn.
Phaeneilema paniculatum (Wall. ex C.B.Clarke) G.Brückn.
Description : Erect tufted slender herbs. Leaves 4-13 x 0.1-0.3 cm, linear, filiform, semiterete, apex acuminate. Panicles terminal, lax, longer than leaves, branches capillary; peduncles reddish, 8-20 cm long. Flowers blue; pedicels filiform; bracts minute, ocreate. Sepals obovate, acute. Petals blue, 2-4 mm long, obovate, apex somewhat 3-loobed. Staminal filaments naked. Ovary glabrous; ovules 2-seriate in each cell. Capsule 2-3 mm long, subglobose or ovoid, angular. Seeds 2-seriate, 6-8 in each cell, smooth, compressed.
 
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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 :