MH079 : Rotala serpyllifolia (Roth) Bremek. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : |
201 |
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| Class |
: Magnoliopsida |
| Order |
: Myrtales |
| Family |
: Lythraceae - Loosestrife family |
| Genus |
: Rotala |
| Species |
: Rotala serpyllifolia (Roth) Bremek. |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : |
Fairly common in river and stream beds . On rocks near water margins |
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| Plant Category : |
Herbs |
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| Plant's Current Status : |
- |
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| Plant Family : |
Lythraceae |
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| Plant Common Name : |
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| Synonym : |
Ammannia tenuis Clarke in Hook.f.
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| Description : |
an aquatic creeping herb with upper branches erect. Flowering shoot grow up to 25 cm long, and are prominently red. Leaves are linear and deep reddish brown when submerged. The leaves above water are linear to broadly ovate or sometimes round at the base, 0.2-1.5 cm long. Tips are pointed or blunt and the base wedge-shaped. The bracts just below the flowers are green or tinged with red, smaller than the leaves, rarely larger than 4 mm. Pink flowers are borne in dense stalked spikes at the end of branches, up to 3.5 cm long. Sepal cup is tube-like, 2.5-3 mm long, constricted at the top, with 4 triangular sepals. Petals are 4, obovate, somewhat longer than the sepals. Stamens are 4, with anthers not protruding. Capsule is shorter than the sepal tube, 2-valved. Slender Rotala is widespread in central and western India. Flowering: October-January. |
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| Reference : |
~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :
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