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Published In: Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylaniae 235–236. 1860. (Enum. Pl. Zeyl.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Contributor Text : KAMAL AKHTAR MALIK & ABDUL GHAFOOR
Flower/Fruit : Fl. Per.: August-February.
Type : Type: ‘Habitat in India’, Herb. Linn. 28/27 (LINN).
Distribution : Distribution: India, Sri Lanka, S.E. Asia, Tropical Africa; introduced and naturalized in Tropical America (W. Indies, Panama).
Comment/Acknowledgements : Cultivated in our gardens for its showy flowers and as ground cover.
Map Location : G-4 Karachi Dist.: Karachi University Campus, road-crossing near hockey ground, Kamal A. Malik 1913 (KUH); Gandhi gardens, cultivated, 27.2.1966, Saida Qaiser s.n. (KUH); ibid., 18.11.1982, Saida Qaiser & Nazimuddin s.n. (KUH); Karachi University Staff club, 7.8.1982, Abrar Hussain s.n. (KUH).

 

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Suberect to climbing subshrub, with 4-angled, pilose to glabrescent twigs. Leaves with up to c. 2 cm long petiole; lamina elliptic-ovate to deltoid, 2-5 x 1.5-3.5 (-4) cm, grey-pubescent to glabrate, base truncate to rounded, the margins crenulate to entire, apically acute or shortly acuminate. Flowers in terminal, 1-sided, lax raceme. Bracts lanceolate, 2.5-3 mm long, pilose. Calyx lobes lanceolate, (5-) 7-9 mm long, sparsely pubescent. Corolla yellow to creamy-white with purple streaks on throat, tube up to 2.5 cm long, narrow below, widened to c. 1 cm at the throat, hairy outside, lobes ± orbicular, up to 1.5 cm long. Anthers oblong, 2.5-3 mm long. Style up to 2 cm long. Capsule oblong, up to 2.8 cm long including stipe, pubescent, 4-seeded.
 
 
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