Purple-Spike Lace Plant is a small aquatic herb, 10-30
cm tall. Tubers are 1-3 cm, round, crowned with fibrous roots. Leaves
are 3-7 cm long, oblong-ovate, heart-shaped, pointed, with 7-9 nerves.
Flowers are borne in dense purple spikes, 6-7 cm long long, which ride
on 10-20 cm long stalks. Fruits are 6 mm, beaked, smooth.
Purple-Spike Lace Plant is found in Western Ghats.
Flowering: August.
Identification credit: Shrikant Ingalhalikar
Photographed at Nerur Par, Kudal, Maharashtra.
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