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MH344 : Polygala persicariaefolia DC

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 2  
Class : Equisetopsida
Order : Fabales
Family : Polygalaceae - Milkwort family
Genus : Polygala
Species : Polygala persicariaefolia
Plant Location in Melghat : Khandukheda, Masoondi  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Polygalaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Polygala persicariifolia DC.
Polygala arenaria Oliver.
Polygala buchanani D. Don.
Polygala figariana Webb.
Polygala granulata Hochst.
Polygala hypericoides Webb.
Polygala persicariifolia var. wallichiana (Wight) Choc.
Polygala punctulata Hochst.
Polygala rufa Span.
Polygala septemnervia Merr.
Polygala spilophylla Steud.
Polygala wallichiana Wight.
Description : Herbs, 10 - 65 cm high; stems terete, erect or decumbent, dichotomously branched at top or simple and arising directly from base, finely crisp-haired. Leaves alternate, subsessile, ovate-oblong, lanceolate, elliptic or linear-oblong, subacute or cuneate at base, acute or subacute and mucronate at apex, 15 - 65 x 3 - 20 mm, revolute or flat along margins, glabrous, sparsely pubescent or strigose along nerves below; basal leaves smaller. Flowers 3 - 5 mm long, rose-purple or reddish-violet with pink streaks, in 4 - 14 cm long terminal and extra-axillary or leaf-opposed, erect or patent racemes; pedicels 1 - 3 mm long, downwardly directed; bracts 3, lanceolate, 1 - 2 mm long, persistent. Sepals persistent; outer sepals elliptic-oblong, lanceolate, obtuse, subequal, 2.5 - 3 mm long, puberulous on margins; wing sepals rounded, broadly obliquely obovate to suborbicular, rounded at apex, 5 - 6 mm long, 4 - 5 mm wide, petaloid, glabrescent or puberulous on margins, 3 - 5-nerved, reddish. Petals pink, purple or yellowish with purple streaks, hairy inside; middle lobe ca 6 mm long, keeled with a crest of 2 - 3 bundles of linear membranous forked appendages; lateral lobes obliquely oblong, smaller. Staminal sheath adherent to petals, 1.5 - 2.5 mm long; free portion of filaments ca 1.2 mm long. Ovary obovoid, less than 1 mm long, ciliate along margins; style curved, widened towards middle, broadened at apex, ca 3 mm long; stigma oblique, lateral. Capsules elliptic, obcordate, symmetrical at base, very narrowly winged, emarginate at apex, compressed, 5 - 6 x 4 - 4.5 mm, membranous, marginally winged, ciliate along margins towards upper portion. Seeds oblong-ellipsoid, 3 - 3.5 x 1.3 - 1.5 mm, shiny reddish black, hirsute with dense silky light brownish or white hairs; caruncle hood-shaped, 3-lobed with short blunt lobes and very narrow sinuses. Fl. May - July; Fr. Aug. - Nov.
 
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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 :