Centranthera indica (L.) Gamble

 
  • Family : SCROPHULARIACEAE
    (FIGWORT FAMILY)
  • Family (as per The Plant List) : Orobanchaceae
  • Species : Centranthera indica
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Centranthera indica (L.) Gamble
  • Key identification features : An erect, scabrid or hispid herb with conspicuous tubercles. Roots are often deep-orange. Stem is 4-angled, leaves are entire or sometimes toothed at the margins and oblong. Flowers are subsessile, with browish-purple corolla, staminal filaments are ciliate and capsule being oblong.
  • Habit : Herb
  • Flower, Fruit : July-December
  • Native : Tropical Asia, Australia
  • Comments : Rare in moist places in northern Eastern Ghats of Odisha.
  • Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
  • Distribution Locality : Visakhapatnam district (Andhra Pradesh State); Ganjam district, Similipal Hills (Mayurbhanj district) (Odisha State)
  • World Distribution : India, Myanmar, Malaysia, China, Sri Lanka, Australia
  • Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1.
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Arun Singh R., Deepak Kumar, Raja K Swamy and Navendu Page (2016). Digital Flora of Eastern Ghats. http://easternghats.ces.iisc.ernet.in/plants.php?name=Centranthera indica. Downloaded on 3 December 2024.

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