Yellow Ghost Flower is a yellowish to reddish-brown
fleshy herb, up to 15 cm tall. Flower-cluster-stalk is 2-10 cm long.
Calyx is 3-5 cm long, pinkish to whitish. Flowers are 6-7.5 cm long,
about 5 cm wide at the mouth, yellowish to white with violet or bluish
petals, rounded toothed or erose at the margins; tube about as long as
the calyx. Capsule is ovoid, about 2 cm in diameter, apiculate with a
persistent style-base; seeds very small, brownish. Yellow Ghost Flower
is found in Indo-Malesia. Flowering: September-November.
Identification credit: S. Jeevith
Photographed in the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu.
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