Velvety Barleria is a shrub, with branchlets
velvet-hairy. Leaves are 4-6 x 2-3 cm, ovate, tip tapering, base
pointed, woolly below; leaf-stalk to 3 cm. Flowers are nearly stalkless
in short in leaf-axils racemes; bracts spoon-shaped; sepals 4, to 1.5 x
0.7 cm, nearly equal, obovate. Flowers are 3 mm across, salviform,
pink, tube up to 7 cm; stamens 2. Capsule 4-seeded; seed hairy. Velvety
Barleria is endemic to Peninsular India. Flowering: December-March.
Identification credit: Sushant More
Photographed in Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh.
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