Centranthera indica (L.) Gamble

 
  • Family : SCROPHULARIACEAE
  • Family (As per The Plant List) : Orobanchaceae
  • Species : Centranthera indica
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Centranthera indica (L.) Gamble
  • Collection Nos : HFP 500, CJS 15456
  • Collector(s) Name : C.J.Saldanha & T.P.Ramamoorthy
  • 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
  • Comments : Common in open grasslands
  • Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
  • Collection Locality : Byaba State Forest, Byrapura (Hassan)
  • Distribution Locality : Chikamagalur, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Hassan, Kodagu, Mysore, Shimoga, Udupi, Uttara Kannada
  • Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara

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