Himalayan Figwort is an obtusely angled robust herb
with ovate-lanceolate to ovate-cordate leaves without appendages on
stalks. Flowers are borne in few flowered cymes forming a loose panicle
about 10 cm broad. Sepals are blunt-rounded, rough-margined, shorter
than the seed-pods. Flowers are green, 4-5 mm long, upper lobes longer
than others. Fertile stamens are much protruded from flowers.
Seed-pods are globose, style 6-9 mm long. Common in Kashmir usually at
altitudes of 1500-4000 m.
Flowering: June-August.
Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh
Photographed in Kashmir University Botanical Garden, Srinagar.
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