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Botanical name: Hypericum mysurense Family: Hypericaceae (Hypercum family)
Synonyms: Hypericum mysorense, Norysca mysurensis
Synonyms: Hypericum mysorense, Norysca mysurensis
Mysore Hypericum is a Hypericum native to
Mysore. It is a shrub around 2m high, with mostly unbranched stems.
Leaves are broadly to narrowly elliptic and almost stalkless. The
leaves appear in alternately arranged opposite pairs on the stem.
Beautiful yellow flowers have five petals and a tuft of long, showy
stamens at the center. Flowers generally appear singly on top of erect
stems, or in 2-5-flowered cymes. Flower are about 3.5-8 cm across, golden
yellow, in branch-end cymes, 2-3 together. Sepals are up to 1 cm long,
lanceshaped. Petals are yellow, 2-2.5 x 1 cm, obovate, blunt, hairless.
Stamens are arranged in 5 bundles, filaments 1 cm long. Ovary is 5-celled,
styles 5, 10 mm long. Capsules are 1.5 cm long, hairless.
Mysore Hypericum is found in Maharashtra, Andhra Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala,
Sri Lanka, Myanmar.
Medicinal uses:
Recent research shows that
this plant is useful in suppressing herpes.
Medicinal uses:
Recent research shows that
this plant is useful in suppressing herpes. | Identification credit: Prashant Awale | Photographed in Western Ghats. |
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