Category: Hedyotis

Hedyotis membranacea Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Zeyl.: 143 (1859) (syn: Hedyotis asperifolia Alston; Oldenlandia membranacea (Thwaites) Kuntze); . India (Kerala), Sri Lanka as per POWO; . 369 ID wild plant Spermacoce: 16 high res. images. Please ID wild plant, Location: near Vannappuram, Thodupuzha, Idukki Dist., Kerala PIN:685607 Altitude: 1500fsl Flower date: 23SEP2022, 12.05pm Habitat: wild moisture, no sunlight […]

Hedyotis uncinella Hook. & Arn.,  Bot. Beechey Voy. 192 1833. (syn: Hedyotis borrerioides Champ. ex Benth.; Hedyotis cephalophora R.Br. ex Wall. [Invalid]; Hedyotis kuraruensis Hayata; Hedyotis uncinella var. cephalophora Craib; Hedyotis uncinella var. mekongensis (Pierre ex Pit.) W.C.Chen; Oldenlandia uncinella (Hook. & Arn.) Kuntze; Oldenlandia uncinella var. mekongensis Pierre ex Pit.); Sikkim to Taiwan as per […]

Hedyotis articularis R.Br. ex G.Don, Gen. Hist. 3: 527 1834. (syn: Oldenlandia articularis (R.Br. ex Wight & Arn.) Gamble); . S. India as per WCSP; . Common name: Jointed Hedyotis • Tamil: Kudal-churiki . Habit – Large shrubs to small trees Trunk\bark- Bark brownish, smooth; blaze cream. Branchlets- Young branchlets angular, glabrous. Leaves- Leaves simple, […]

Hedyotis kurzii Merr., Pap. Michigan Acad. Sci. 19: 195 1933 publ. 1934. (Syn: Hedyotis nicobarensis W.H.Lewis [Illegitimate]; Hedyotis wallichii Kurz [Illegitimate]; Oldenlandia rosea Ridl.; Oldenlandia wallichii Craib); . SW. India, Indo-China to Pen. Malaysia, Borneo as per WCSP; . Andaman Is.; Borneo; India; Malaya; Myanmar; Nicobar Is.; Thailand; Vietnam as per Catalogue of Life; . […]

Hedyotis indirae  Prabhukumar, Konickal Mambetta; Aiswarya, Pilathottathil; Jagadeesan, Raveendran; Kumar, Vannaratta Veettil Naveen; Sunil, Chandrasseril Narayanan; Hareesh, Vadakoot Sankaran  Webbia August 2019; . Nilgiris: Rubiaceae for identification 301112MK03: Please help me to identify this shrub found in the grasslands of Nilgiris, TN. The shrub height was about 1.5 feet. Could this be Rubiaceae? Leaf: 5 x 2 cm; glabrous and […]

Hedyotis eualata (Gamble) A.N.Henry & Subr., Proc. Indian Acad. Sci., B 76: 28 1972. (syn: Oldenlandia eualata Gamble); India (Tamil Nadu, Kerala) as per WCSP;    Fwd: [efloraofindia:177079] Fwd: identification of some Hedyotis species from Kerala : Attachments (1). 3 posts by 2 authors. Please help me for the identification of some Hedyotis species collected […]

Hedyotis acutangula Champ. ex Benth., Hooker’s J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 4: 171 1852. (syn: Hedyotis elegans Wall. ex Kurz; Hedyotis helferi Hook.f.; Hedyotis lawsoniae (DC.) Benth. ex Hook. [Illegitimate]; Oldenlandia acutangula (Champ. ex Benth.) Kuntze; Oldenlandia elegans (Wall. ex Kurz) Kuntze; Oldenlandia helferi (Hook.f.) Kuntze; Wendlandia lawsoniae DC.); SE. China to Indo-China as per […]

Hedyotis leschenaultiana DC., Prodr. 4: 422 1830. (syn: Hedyotis anamalayana (Gamble) R.S.Rao & Hemadri; Hedyotis leschenaultiana var. leschenaultiana ; Hedyotis sisaparensis Gage; Hedyotis stylosa R.Br. ex G.Don; Knoxia wightiana Schltdl. ex Hook.f.; Oldenlandia anamalayana Gamble; Oldenlandia sisaparensis (Gage) Gamble; Oldenlandia stylosa (R.Br. ex G.Don) Kuntze); India as per WCSP; Common name: Leschenault’s Hedyotis Id Request- […]

Hedyotis cyanantha Kurz, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 45(2): 136 1876 (syn: Hedyotis caerulea Wight & Arn. [Illegitimate]; Oldenlandia caerulea Gamble [Illegitimate]; Oldenlandia pygmaea Kuntze); India to Malesia as per WCSP; India; Malaya; Sri Lanka; Sulawesi as per Catalogue of Life; Herbs annual, erect, branching below; root-stock stout, branching; stem 6-18 cm […]

Hedyotis hirsutissima Bedd., Madras J. Lit. Sci. III, 1: 49 1864. (Syn: Oldenlandia hirsutissima (Bedd.) Kuntze); India (Tamil Nadu) as per WCSP;   Shrubs or undershrubs, 50-150 cm long; branches leafy above and with scars of stipules and fallen leaves below; stem obtusely angular or terete, glabrous. Leaves opposite, sessile or shortly petioled, 1-5 x […]

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 […]

Hedyotis neesiana Arn., Nova Acta Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. German. Nat. Cur. 18: 341 1836. (Syn: Hedyotis glabella R.Br. ex Bedd.; Hedyotis nitida Wight & Arn. [Illegitimate]; Oldenlandia glabella (R.Br. ex Bedd.) Kuntze; Oldenlandia nitida (Kurz) Gamble; Scleromitrion nitidum Kurz); . India to W. Malesia as per WCSP; . Bangladesh; India; Malaya; Myanmar; Sri Lanka; Sumatera; […]

Hedyotis purpurascens Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 50 1880. (syn: Hedyotis purpurascens var. pallida (Gamble) M.Mohanan; Hedyotis purpurea Bedd. [Illegitimate]; Oldenlandia purpurascens (Hook.f.) Kuntze; Oldenlandia purpurascens var. pallida Gamble);  India (Tamil Nadu, Kerala) as per WCSP;   Malayalam Koonthamaniyan Erect shrubs, branches with prominent leaf scars. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, base acute, glabrous, to 6 x […]