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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH437 : Haplanthodes neilgherryensis (Wight) R.B. Majumdar

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : -  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Scrophulariales
Family : Acanthaceae - Acanthus family
Genus : Haplanthodes
Species : Haplanthodes neilgherryensis (Wight) R.B. Majumdar
Plant Location in Melghat : Koktu  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Acanthaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Haplanthus neilgherryensis Wight.
Haplanthus tentaculatus Nees.
Haplanthus tentaculatus var. neilgherryensis C.B.Cl.
Description : Profusely branched herbs, branches quadrangular, glabrous. Leaves 4-7 x 2-3 cm, elliptic, acuminate at both ends, glabrous, attenuate and decurrent at base into a petiole of 4-9 cm long. Spikes terminal, to 5 cm long, cylindrical, densely covered with hairy cladodes; bracts and bracteoles minute. Flowers in whorls; calyx 2 mm long, lobes filiform, hairy; corolla 10 mm long; upper lip 2-lobed and lower lip 3-lobed, hairy; stamens 2, free, anthers unequal, appendaged; ovary oblong, cells 4-6 ovuled, style slender, stigma linear. Capsule 7 mm long, oblong; seeds 6-12, thinly hairy.
 
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Reference : ~ Londhe AN, Watve AV and Ansari MY; "Additions to the flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. (2002); 26(2): 385-395 PMID :