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Combleaf Thorowax
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Combleaf Thorowax
P Native Photo: Dinesh Valke
Common name: Combleaf Thorowax
Botanical name: Bupleurum distichophyllum    Family: Apiaceae (Carrot family)

Combleaf Thorowax is a perennial herb with stem solitary up to 40 cm tall, slender, with short, almost erect or erect-patented branches above, leafy. Lower leaves are erect, very dense, prominently arranged in two rows in a comb like fashion. Flowers are borne in umbels about 2-2.5 cm wide, with flower-cluster-stalks up to 3 cm long, 5-8-radiated, unequal, thin rays, up to 2 cm long; involucral leaves are nearly equal, narrowly linear-lanceshaped, 3-5-nerved. Combleaf Thorowax is native to Southern Western Ghats and Sri Lanka.

Identification credit: Dinesh Valke Photographed in Hullatti, Tamil Nadu.

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