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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH475 : Torenia asiatica L.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Scrophulariales
Family : Scrophulariaceae - Figwort family
Genus : Torenia L. - torenia
Species : Torenia asiatica L. - wishbone flower
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : Scrophulariaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Torenia bicolor Dalz.
Torenia cordifolia Benth.
Torenia glabra Osbeck
Torenia kiusiana Ohwi
Description : Herbs, creeping to suberect, rooting from nodes. Branches numerous, long, slender. Petiole 2-8 mm; leaf blade triangular-ovate, narrowly ovate, or ovate-orbicular, 1.5-3.2 X 1-2 cm, glabrous or sparsely villous, base abruptly constricted and subtruncate to broadly cuneate, margin crenate and serrate. Flowers axillary and solitary or in fascicles. Pedicel 0.5-2 cm. Calyx 0.8-1.5 cm, 1.5-2 cm in fruit, 2-lipped, 5-winged; lips narrowly triangular, apex acuminate, further lobed into 5 small lobes; wings more than 1 mm wide, decurrent. Corolla purple-red to blue-red, 1.5-2.5 cm, exceeding calyx by 0.4-1 cm. Anterior stamens appendages linear, 1-2 mm. Capsule 1-1.3 cm. Seeds yellow, ca. 0.4 mm. Fl. and fr. Jun-Sep.
 
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Reference : ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book PMID :