{"id":1415880,"date":"2014-02-07T11:03:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T11:03:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-23T16:44:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T11:14:34","slug":"andrographis-alata","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/andrographis-alata\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrographis alata"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Andrographis<\/i> alata<\/i> (Vahl) Nees, Prodr. 11: 516 1847<\/i>. (syn: Justicia<\/i> alata<\/i> Vahl<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/a>\u00a0(Unresolved));<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Slender subshrubs to 1 m. Leaves opposite, 7 x 3 cm, elliptic-obovate, gradually acute, puberulous above; petiole to 0.5 cm. Panicles axillary and terminal, to 10 cm; flowers ca. 1 cm apart, subsessile; pedicel 0.3 cm; bracts lanceolate, 0.3 cm, acute; bracteoles 2. Calyx-lobes 5, to 4 mm, glandular-hairy, acute. Corolla white with purple lines, eglandular without, 10 x 0.2 cm across; tube 6 mm, puberulous within the throat below; upper lip 7 mm; lower lip 8 mm, free. Stamens 2, to 1 cm; anthers 2.5 mm, glabrous. Ovary oblong, 1.5 mm, pubescent; style 1 cm, hairy. Capsule oblong, 1.5 x 0.3 cm, acute, glandular-hairy; seeds ovoid, 1.5 mm across. <\/font><\/div>\n

Flowering and fruiting: November<\/font><\/div>\n
Shady areas in grasslands<\/font> <\/div>\n
Peninsular India and Sri Lanka<\/font><\/div>\n
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Andrographis alata (Vahl.) Nees<\/a> : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1). <\/font>\u00a0<\/div>\n
Andrographis alata<\/i> (Vahl.) Nees, Fam: Acanthaceae<\/i>,\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ascending wild herb<\/font><\/div>\n
Talakona, Chithoor Dt, Andhrapradesh; <\/font>\u00a0I saw it in Chennai area, western Ghats near Coimbatore.<\/font><\/div>\n
slightly bitter, some times substitute for Kalmeg<\/font><\/p>\n
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Andrographis alata (Vahl) Nees SN 15Jan 09<\/a> : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (2)<\/font><\/div>\n
Andrographis alata<\/i> (Vahl) Nees, <\/div>\n
frequent wild herb from shady moist areas<\/font> of Kanchepuram dt Tamilnadu<\/font><\/p>\n
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Andrographis alata <\/i>(Vahl) Nees, frequently growing undershrub in shade moist foot hill areas,<\/font> <\/div>\n
slightly bitter<\/font> used just like A. paniculata<\/i> in medicine,<\/font>\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Here with attached one Andrographis<\/i> species I checked species comes under elongata<\/i> any body can help me.. picture taken from thirumala hills, tirupati, Andhra Pradesh.<\/font><\/p>\n
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It is Andrographis alata,<\/i> I also collected from Tirumala area as well as Chennai area, <\/font>it will be found in shade moist localities.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The Plant List Ver.1.1<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0India Biodiversity Portal<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Andrographis alata (Vahl) Nees, Prodr. 11: 516 1847. (syn: Justicia alata Vahl\u00a0(Unresolved)); Images by P. Santhan (Inserted by J.M.Garg) \u00a0 Malayalam Vallikiriyathu Slender subshrubs to 1 m. Leaves opposite, 7 x 3 cm, elliptic-obovate, gradually acute, puberulous above; petiole to 0.5 cm. Panicles axillary and terminal, to 10 cm; flowers…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[5142],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1415880","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-andrographis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1415880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1415880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1415880"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1415880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}