Swertia minor

SWER-tee-uh — named for Emanual Sweert, Dutch botanist, artist and author
MY-nor — smaller, lesser … Dave’s Botanary

commonly known as: lesser swertia • Kannada: ಕಿರಾತ ತಿಕ್ತ kiraatha thiktha • Marathi: लहान चिरायत lahan chirayat

Low herb; stem subterete, faintly winged. Leaves ovate, rarely obovate, 0.6-1.8 x 0.3-1.2 cm, estipulate, 3-ribbed, stem-clasping, midrib faintly winged below, base obtuse, apex acute. Cymes to 2 cm, to 3-flowered; peduncles to 1.5 cm. Calyx-lobes 4, elliptic, 5 x 2 mm, glabrous, apiculate. Corolla rose; tube 1 mm; lobes 4, elliptic-oblong, 0.6 x 0.2 cm, twisted; nectaries 2 per lobe, basal, oblong, 3 mm wide. Stamens 4; filaments narrowly winged. Ovary 1-celled; ovules numerous, on parietal placentae; stigma sessile, 2-lobed. 

Campanulaceae & Gentianaceae Week: Gentianaceae :: Swertia minor at Panchagani: Swertia minor (Griseb.) Knobl.SWER-tee-uh — named for Emanual Sweert, Dutch botanist, artist and author
MY-nor — smaller, lesser   … Dave’s Botanary

… more views on flickr.

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Kas week: Swertia sp.1 SMP:  Observed this Swertia species flowering on Kas 2 years back in Sep. I think it is Swertia minor. Pl Validate.
Flower size may be upto 5 mm

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Exacum lawii : Attachments (3). 3 posts by 3 authors.

Gentinaceae week: Swertia minor : 3 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1).  

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Swertia minor : 7 posts by 7 authors. Attachments (1).

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Swertia minor from Prabalgad and Kulang Fort.
Family: Gentianaceae.

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So nice.

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at Sagargad, Alibag– Aug’09?; from Satpura tiger reserve- Ayg’09?; in western ghats near Pune in August’09; Sagargad, Alibag- 8/8/10; Panaroma Point in Matheran, Maharashtra- 15/8/10; at Panchagani tableland … about 1321 m … August 26, 2010; Kas platue;

Swertia minor – indiantreepix | Google Groups

ID0090809phk1 – indiantreepix | Google Groups

Wildflowers – indiantreepix | Google Groups

Swertia species for ID – indiantreepix | Google Groups

Swertia minor – efloraofindia | Google Groups

Id Request (Swertia spp.?) – efloraofindia | Google Groups

… Swertia minor at Panchagani tableland – efloraofindia | Google Groups

FAMILY OF THE WEEK : GENTIANACEAE – indiantreepix | Google Groups

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Kannada name for Swertia minor: Please validate this name : ಕಿರಾತ ತಿಕ್ತ kiraatha thiktha for Swertia minor.
Reference: ENVIS –
FRLHT<http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=4869&parname=0> 

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I understand that the name is one word “Kiratatikta’ in kannada.
While writing in kannada you may join the two words (ಕಿರಾತತಿಕ್ತ), it makes up.  

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