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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH381 : Elatostema surculosum Wight

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 48  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Urticales
Family : Urticaceae - Nettle family
Genus : Elatostema J.R. Forst. & G. Forst.
Species : Elatostema surculosum
Plant Location in Melghat : Semadoh Tourist complex  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Urticaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : One-Stamen Elatostema
 
Synonym : Elatostema monandrum (D. Don) H. Hara.
Elatostema diversifolium.
Elatostema laetum.
Description : Gregarious, subsucculent, herb of moist rocks, rooting below; branchlets to 25 cm, zig-zag. Leaves alternate, obliquely lanceolate, to 6 x 2.5 cm, subtended by several very small leaves, margin deeply dentate, apex caudate; stipules lanceolate. Inflorescence axillary, 1.3 cm wide, subtended by bracts and bracteoles. Flowers unisexual. Staminate: Tepals 4, ovate, basally connate. Stamens 4. Pistillate: Tepals 5. Ovary 1-celled; ovule 1. Achene ovoid.
 
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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 :