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White Eranthemum
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White Eranthemum
P Native Photo: N Arun Kumar
Common name: White Eranthemum
Botanical name: Pseuderanthemum album    Family: Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Synonyms: Eranthemum album, Justicia alba, Rhinacanthus albus

White Eranthemum is a very pretty plant with flowers that are white with a tube about 3 cm long, linear, borne in panicles. Leaves are elliptic, with tapering tips, mostly hairless. Uppermost leaves are very short-stalked. White Eranthemum is found in Andaman & Nicobar Is., Bangladesh, East Himalaya, Myanmar.

Identification credit: N Arun Kumar Photographed in North Andaman.

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