Buchnera hispida Ham. ex D. Don

 
  • Family : SCROPHULARIACEAE
  • Family (As per The Plant List) : Orobanchaceae
  • Species : Buchnera hispida
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Buchnera hispida Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don
  • Collection Nos : HFP 1214; HJCB-0290
  • Collector(s) Name : C.J.Saldanha & T.P.Ramamoorthy; Raja K. Swamy & Arun Singh
  • Key identification features : An erect hispid herb, hemiparasitic turning black when dry. Lower leaves are toothed, elliptic lanceolate, upper leaves are linear-lanceolate passing into bracts. Corolla is purple.
  • Habit : Herb
  • Comments : Often reffered to as a root parasite, but its connection to the host is rather difficult to get. Frequent in open grass lands
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Collection Locality : Manjarabad fort ( Hassan); Nagpuri batta, Hassan district
  • Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Bellary, Chikamagalur, Davanagere, Hassan, Kodagu, Mysore, Udupi, Dakshina Kannada
  • Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara

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