• Family : HYDROPHYLLACEAE
• Family (As per The Plant List) : Hydroleaceae
• Species : Hydrolea zeylanica
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Hydrolea zeylanica (L.) Vahl
• Collection Nos : KFP 10600
• Key identification features : Annual, subsucculent, soft, speading herb with perennial root-stock, often rooting at nodes. Stems and branchlets are pubescent whjen young. Leaves are simple, elliptic-lanceolate, apically acute, basally obtuse or truncate. Margin is entire, glabrous above, glaucescent below and chartaceous. Flowers are axillary or in terminal racemes. Peduncles are upto 2 cm long. Calyx is glandular pubescent, lobes are 5, ovate. Corolla is deep blue, with ovate 5-lobes. Capsule is globose-hispid. Seeds are minute and wrinkled.
• Habit : Herb
• Comments : Common in wet places and swamps
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Distribution Locality : Mysore, Udupi, Dakshina Kannada
• Floras referred : Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara

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