Stachytarpheta mutabilis (Jacq.) Vahl

 
  • Family : VERBENACEAE
  • Family (As per The Plant List) : Verbenaceae
  • Species : Stachytarpheta mutabilis
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Stachytarpheta mutabilis (Jacq.) Vahl
  • Common name : Devil's Coach
  • Collection Nos : HFP 1841, CJS 14354
  • Key identification features : A perennial densely hairy shrub of about 90 cm. height with diffuse branching. Leaves are opposite, rather thick and leathery, ovate to elliptic-oblong, sometimes lanceolate with serrate margin. Flowers are on stout, erect, 10-60 cm. long spike. Corolla is showy, scarlet or crimson fading pink, the tube being 1.3-1.8 cm. long.
  • Habit : Herb
  • Native : Neotropics from Mexico to Northern South America and the West Indies
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Distribution Locality : Davanagere, Hassan, Kolar, Mysore, Shimoga
  • Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere

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