Ceylon Staurogyne is a plant with short erect stem
and trailing velvet-hairy branches. Leaves are elliptic, 3 inches long,
1 inch wide, somewhat blunt, narrowed at the base. Leaf-stalk is 1-1.5
cm. Flowers are borne in 1-2 inches long, dense cylindric spikes.
Bracts are obovate, slightly longer than the flowers. Flowers are 6-8
mm long, pinkish white. Four sepals are linear, rather shorter than the
bracts, and the fifth one is rather broader, linear somewhat pointed.
Ceylon Staurogyne is found in peninsular India. Flowering:
January-April.
Identification credit: Shrikant Ingalhalikar
Photographed along Chorla Ghat near Choraundem, Goa.
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