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Hill Chlorophytum
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Hill Chlorophytum
P Native Photo: Ashutosh Sharma
Common name: Hill Chlorophytum
Botanical name: Chlorophytum heynei    Family: Asparagaceae (Asparagus family)
Synonyms: Anthericum heynei, Chlorophytum clivorum, Chlorophytum heyneanum

Hill Chlorophytum is a herb with stem very short. Leaves are 20 x 5 cm, inverted-lanceshaped, pointed to tip, narrowed to base. Flowers are borne in racemes up to 18 cm long, stout, densely-flowered. Flower-stalks are 5 mm long; tepals 8 mm long, elliptic-lanceshaped; ovary obovoid, retuse; style slender; stigma at branch-ends. Capsule is 10 x 7 mm, obovoid, 3-lobed. Hill Chlorophytum is found in South India and Sri Lanka. Flowering: July-October.

Identification credit: Ashutosh Sharma Photographed in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu.

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