Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Shrub
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📚 Overview
Description
Habit: A small undershrub, upto 70cm.
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Habit: Undershrub
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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Subshrubs. Leaves 6-9 x 2-4 cm, elliptic, acute at both ends, usually crowded towards the apex; petiole to 4 cm long. Spike terminal or rarely axillary, dense, to 7 cm long; peduncle 5-10 cm long; bracts in 4 rows, 15 x 5 mm, lanceolate; bracteoles 15 x 3 mm, linear, acuminate, pubescent. Flowers many, densely packed; calyx lobes 5, unequal, to 9 mm long, glandular-hairy, outer one sometimes 2-fid at apex; corolla creamy orange, tube 2.5 cm long, narrow, lobes 5, subequal, 1 cm long, oblong, spreading; stamens 4, inserted at the middle of corolla tube, included, filaments unequal, anthers bearded; ovary oblong, 4-ovuled, style narrow, stigma fimbriate. Capsule 10 x 5 mm, oblong; seeds 4, orbicular.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Morphology
Growth Form
Shrub
Flower
In terminal or axillary spikes; orange-scarlet with red or yellow throat. Flowering January onwards.
Fruit
An oblong capsule; seeds 4, orbicular, with fimbriate scales. Fruiting February onwards.
Field tips
Leaves crowded near the inflorescence.
Leaf Arrangement
Opposite or whorled
Leaf Type
Simple
Leaf Shape
Elliptic-oblong
Leaf Apex
Acute
Leaf Base
Acute
Leaf Margin
Entire
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Plains to Low Altitude, Cultivated
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Dry deciduous forests, commonly grown as garden plant
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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Description
in the scrub jungles, forest thickets and slopes from foothills to 1000m. Common. India and Sri Lanka.
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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Maharashtra: Ahmednagar, Pune, Thane
Karnataka: Coorg, Dharwar, Mysore, N. Kanara
Kerala: Idukki, Kasaragod, Kozhikode, Malapuram, Palakkad
Tamil Nadu: All districts
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Global Distribution
India and Sri Lanka
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: All Districts
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
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📚 Information Listing
References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
- Crossandra infundibuliformis (L.) Nees in Wall., Pl. Asiat. Rar. 3: 98. 1832; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 222. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 310. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 276. 1985; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 495. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 233. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 228. 2002; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 555. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 635. 2009.
- Crossandra undulaefolia Salisb., Parad. Lond. t. 12. 1805; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 492. 1884; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1055(739). 1924.
- Justicia infundibuliformis L., Sp. Pl. 21. 1753.
Information Listing > References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
- Crossandra infundibuliformis (L.) Nees in Wall., Pl. Asiat. Rar. 3: 98. 1832; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 222. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 310. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 276. 1985; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 495. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 233. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 228. 2002; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 555. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 635. 2009.
- Crossandra undulaefolia Salisb., Parad. Lond. t. 12. 1805; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 492. 1884; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1055(739). 1924.
- Justicia infundibuliformis L., Sp. Pl. 21. 1753.
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Lamiales |
| Family | Acanthaceae |
| Genus | Crossandra |
| Species | Crossandra infundibuliformis |
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