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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH291 : Amischophacelus cucullata (Roth.) R.S. Rao & Kammathy

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 512  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Commelinales
Family : Commelinaceae - Spiderwort family
Genus : Amischophacelus
Species : Amischophacelus cucullata (Roth.) R.S. Rao & Kammathy
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : Red List Category - Least Concern  
Plant Family : Commelinaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Winchu,
 
Synonym : Cyanotis cucullata (Roth.) Kunth.
Tonningia cucullata (Roth) Kuntze.
Tradescantia cucullata Roth.
Tradescantia glomerata B.Heyne ex C.B.Clarke.
Zygomenes cucullata (Roth) R.S.Rao & Kammathy.
Description : Decumbent or suberect annual herbs with 15-40 cm long, glabrous, stout branches, usually from the basal regions; branches rooting at lower nodes. Leaves sessile, 2.5-6 x .5-1 cm, narrowly linear or linear lanceolate, succulent, distichous, recurved; sheaths more or less globosely-inflated. Flowers generally 1-2 in all axils, almost included in the sheath pouch. Corolla violet-blue. Stamens with filaments densely bearded with long beaded blue hairs; anthers yellow. Style blue with colourless 2-lipped sitgma. Friut a trigonous capsule, 3-horned at the top with a central depression, included or slightly protruding from the sheath pouch.
 
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Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :