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Deccan Seddera
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Deccan Seddera
P Native Photo: S. Kasim
Common name: Deccan Seddera
Botanical name: Seddera evolvuloides    Family: Convolvulaceae (Morning glory family)
Synonyms: Breweria evolvuloides, Breweria choisyana, Bonamia evolvuloides

Deccan Seddera is a very branched, rigid, harsh, small shrub, with a few scattered bristly hairs. Leaves are 6-12 mm, oblong or elliptic, nearly hairless. Flowers are white, about 6 mm, carried on 3-4 mm long stalks. Sepals are 3 mm long, oblong, nearly hairless, almost erect in flower and fruit. Fruit is almost spherical, shortly pointed, hairless, tipped with tuft of hairs, 4-celled. Deccan Seddera is endemic to Peninsular India.

Identification credit: S. Kasim Photographed in Radhapuram, Tirunelveli Dist, Tamil Nadu.

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