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Hedyotis verticillaris Wall. ex Wight & Arn., Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient. 1: 409 (1834) (syn: Oldenlandia verticillaris (Wall. ex Wight & Arn.) Kuntze; Pleiocraterium verticillare (Wall. ex Wight & Arn.) Bremek.);
. India (Nilgiri Hills) as per POWO; . Common name: Whorled Hedyotis Acaulescent herbs, root-stock thick, clothed with dried leaf-bases. Leaves in dense, basal rosettes, sessile, to 24 x 4 cm, lanceolate, many nerved from base. Flowers on axillary scapes; scapes shorter than leaves. Calyx lobes 5, linear, 3 mm long, glabrous. Corolla white, tube c. 3 mm, lobes 4, elliptic-acute, to 3.5 mm long, throat woolly. Stamens 4, exserted; style included, bilobed; stigma dilated.       Nilgiris: Hedyotis for identification 301112MK02: Location: Mukruti NP, Nilgiris, TN
Date: 22 Oct 2012
Alt.: 2350 m asl Very interesting plant! It looks almost like Pleiocraterium verticillare (= Hedyotis verticillaris).
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