Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH184 : Lindernia parviflora (Roxb.) Haines

Plant Category : Herbs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 358

Synonym : Gratiola parviflora Roxb.; Ilysanthes parviflora (Roxb.) Benth.; Ilysanthes radicans Pilg.;

Plant Common Name : Small-Flowered Lindernia,

Plant Family : Scrophulariaceae

Description : Decumbent herbs, 10-20 cm high; stems glabrous. Leaves to 1.5 x 0.7 cm, ovate, acute, entire, sessile; nerves 3 pairs. Flowers in terminal racemes or upper axillary; bracts 5 x 3 mm, ovate; pedicel deflexed in fruit, 1.5 cm long; sepals 3 mm long, connate at base; corolla 6 mm long; upper lip bifurcated at apex; lower lip obtusely 3-lobed; staminodes with lateral vermiform appendages. Capsule 5 x 2.5 mm, ovoid, glabrous; seeds 0.3 mm long, obovoid, yellow, glabrous.

Plant Location in Melghat : -

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Plant's Current Status : IUCN Red List - Least Concern

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/230259

Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Subclass : Asteridae
Order : Scrophulariales
Family : Scrophulariaceae - Figwort family
Genus : Lindernia All. - false pimpernel
Species : Lindernia parviflora

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