Lasianthus sessilis Talbot

 
  • Family : RUBIACEAE
    (Madder Or Coffee Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : COFFEE FAMILY (कॉफी फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : RUBIACEAE
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Lasianthus sessilis Talbot
  • Habit : Shrub
  • Habitat : Semi-Evergreen forests in ghat areas
  • Comments / notes : Not common
  • Key identification features : Leaves elliptic, hairy on the nerves beneath. Flowers white; corolla villous outside. Fruits oblong, dorsally tubercled
  • Flower, Fruit : July-September
  • Literature : N.P. Singh, P. Lakshminarasimhan, S. Karthikeyan & P. V. Prasanna (2001). Flora of Maharashtra state, Dicotyledones. Vol. 2.pp.143. Botanical survey of India, Govt. Of India.
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Lasianthus sessilis. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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