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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH482 : Knoxia sumatrensis (Retz.) DC.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Gentianales
Family : Rubiaceae
Genus : Knoxia
Species : Knoxia sumatrensis (Retz.) DC.
Plant Location in Melghat :  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : Rubiaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Sumatra Knoxia
 
Synonym : Cuncea trifida Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don
Dentillaria corymbosa (Willd.) Kuntze
Dentillaria heyneana (DC.) Kuntze
Dentillaria mollis (R.Br. ex Wight & Arn.) Kuntze
Ernodea nepalensis Spreng.
Knoxia corymbosa Thwaites, nom. illeg.
Knoxia corymbosa var. parviflora F.Muell.
Knoxia exserta DC.
Knoxia heyneana DC.
Knoxia linearis Gamble
Knoxia mollis R.Br. ex Wight & Arn.
Knoxia mollis var. subcapitata Miq.
Knoxia stricta Gaertn.
Knoxia stricta var. parviflora (F.Muell.) Domin
Knoxia sumatrensis glaberrima R.Bhattacharjee & Deb, no Latin descr. or type.
Knoxia sumatrensis linearis (Gamble) R.Bhattacharjee & Deb
Knoxia teres (Roxb.) DC.
Knoxia umbellata Banks ex Roxb., pro syn.
Knoxia umbellifera Roxb. ex Wight & Arn.
Spermacoce corymbosa (Willd.) Roth, nom. illeg.
Spermacoce exserta Roxb.
Spermacoce sumatrensis Retz.
Spermacoce teres Roxb.
Timonius malaccensis King & Gamble
Description : Herbs or subshrubs, 20-90(-100) cm tall; roots slender, fibrous; branches terete to weakly quadrate, puberulent or villosulous to densely tomentulose. Leaves opposite, subsessile or petiolate with petiole to 12 mm, puberulent or villosulous to glabrescent; blade papery to membranous, elliptic, lanceolate, or elliptic-oblong, 3-12 × 0.8-3.5 cm, both surfaces hispid-pilosulous to villosulous or sometimes glabrescent adaxially, base acute to cuneate, apex acuminate to cuspidate; secondary veins 6-9 pairs; stipules persistent, shortly fused to petioles, deeply 3-5-lobed, 3-7 mm, villosulous to glabrescent, lobes sometimes setose. Inflorescences congested-cymose to corymbiform, sometimes trichotomous, 1-6 cm, densely strigillose to villosulous, ebracteate; peduncle 0.3-2 cm; pedicels 0.1-1 mm. Calyx puberulent or strigillose to glabrous; ovary portion ellipsoid, 0.5-0.8 mm; limb lobed essentially to base; lobes triangular, 0.1-0.3 mm, equal to subequal on an individual flower. Corolla white or purplish red, funnelform, outside glabrous; tube 1.5-2 mm; lobes triangular, ca. 1 mm. Schizocarps ovoid to ellipsoid, 2-3 mm, weakly 4-8-ribbed, strigillose or puberulent to glabrescent; mericarps coherent at dispersal; carpophore persistent, linear, ca. 2.5 mm. Fl. Jul-Aug, fr. Oct-Nov.
 
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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 :