Oldenlandia herbacea (L.) Roxb.

 
  • Family : RUBIACEAE
  • Family (As per The Plant List) : Rubiaceae
  • Species : Oldenlandia herbacea
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Oldenlandia herbacea (L.) Roxb.
  • Common name : Cluster Flower Mille Grains
  • Vernacular name : Chaayaparpatika (San.); Paaper-bhed (Hin.)
  • Collection Nos : HFP 1191, CJS 15270
  • Key identification features : An erect much-branched herb. Leaves are simple, opposite, entire and linear. Flowers are tiny, solitary in leaf axils. Corolla tube slender and funnel-shaped. Fruit is a capsule.
  • Habit : Herb
  • Native : Africa
  • Comments : Common during monsoon in cultivated places
  • Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
  • Distribution Locality : Bagalkot, Bangalore, Belgaum, Bellary, Bidar, Bijapur, Chamrajnagar, Chikamagalur, Chikkaballapur, Chitradurga, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Dharwad, Gadag, Gulbarga, Hassan, Haveri, Kodagu, Kolar, Koppal, Mandya, Mysore, Raichur, Ramanagara, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Yadgir
  • Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara

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