Botanical name: Neanotis oxyphylla    Family: Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Synonyms: Anotis oxyphylla, Oldenlandia oxyphylla

Narrowleaf Starviolet is a hairless, perennial herb, with stem stout erect, 1-1.5 ft., simple, rarely branched above, as thick as s goose-quill below, and rooting at the lower nodes. Leaves are stalked linear-lanceshaped, 10-15 by 0.6-1.8 cm, tapering to the base, dark when dry. Stipules 1.2 cm, base ovate, not fused, leathery, erect. Flowers are borne in many-flowered cymes, much divided with slender erect flower-cluster-stalks and flower-stalks. Flowers are pale lilac, much longer than the sepals. Petal are 4, oblong, spreading. Sepals are short broad. capsules stalked turgid hemispheric, cells 5-8-seeded. Narrowleaf Starviolet is found in East Himalaya and NE India, at altitudes of 700-1700 m.

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