| Long-Style Hedyotis |
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| Original date | 11/25/17 5:49 PM |
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| Focal length | 100.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 11.0 |
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| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 7D |
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Botanical name: Hedyotis leschenaultiana Family: Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Synonyms: Hedyotis stylosa, Knoxia wightiana, Oldenlandia stylosa
Synonyms: Hedyotis stylosa, Knoxia wightiana, Oldenlandia stylosa
Long-Style Hedyotis is a stout shrub, with
branchlets floppy. Flowers are pinkish or white, about 6 mm wide, tube
5 mm, hairy inside, petals 4, ovate-lanceshaped, about 0.5 cm long.
Stamens 5. This plant can be easily distinguished by the presence of
style protruding from the flower-tube. Flowers are borne in cymes in
elongate, branch-end panicles, about 5 x 4 cm. Flower-cluster-stalks
are up to 6 cm, bracts and bracteoles ovate-rounded, 3 x 2 mm lobes 4,
ovate ca. 0.7 cm. Leaves are up to 6 x 2 cm, ovate to elliptic
-lanceshaped, papery, nerves 4-5 pairs, base narrowed to pointed, tip
tapering; leaf-stalk to 1 cm; stipules elliptic-lanceshaped about 0.8
cm, hairless margin pinnatisect. Capsules are ovoid, hairless 0.3 cm
wide. Long-Style Hedyotis is endemic to Southern Western Ghats.
Flowering: November-March.
Medicinal uses:
The different ethnic
communities in India have used different species of Hedyotis in the
treatment of various ailments.
Medicinal uses:
The different ethnic
communities in India have used different species of Hedyotis in the
treatment of various ailments. | Identification credit: Dr. Jomy Augustine | Photographed in Eravikulam National Park, Munnar, Distt.Idukki, Kerala. |
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