- Family : VIOLACEAE
(VIOLET FAMILY)
- Family (as per The Plant List) : Violaceae
- Species : Hybanthus vatsavayae
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved
- Endemism : Eastern Ghats
- Key identification features : An erect herb, branched from base, growing up to 20 cm high; root stocks woody. Stems angled, grooved, pale yellowish, puberulous. Leaves spiral to whorled, linear to linear-lanceolate, 2 - 4 x 0.1 cm, sessile, base attenuate, entire to distantly serrate, apex acute-apiculate, secondary nerves indistinct, glabrescent. Flowers inconspicuous, axillary, solitary. Pedicels sessile to 2 mm long; sepals yellow, 4 mm long, ovate acuminate; petals smaller than sepals, caducous; stamens 5, only 2 fertile; ovary globose, glabrous. Capsule 5 mm across, 3-lobed, puberulous, seeds 5-8. Seeds ovoid ellipsoid, 2.5 mm long, longitudinally ribbed.
- Habit : Herb
- Flower, Fruit : August-December
- Native : India
- Comments : Occurs in crevices of rocks on hills.
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Distribution Locality : Kadapa district (Andhra Pradesh State); Nalgonda district, Khammam district (Telangana State)
- World Distribution : India
- Literature : J. Econ.Taxon.Bot. 25: 219 2001.
- 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=Hybanthus vatsavayae. Downloaded on 23 November 2024.
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