• Family : VIOLACEAE
  (Violet Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : RATHNAPURUSHA FAMILY (रत्नपुरुष फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : VIOLACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Occurs in crevices of rocks in hills. Rare.
• Key identification features : An erect herb, branched from base, growing up to 20 cm high; root stocks woody. Stems angled, grooved, pale yellowish, puberulous. Leaves spiral to whorled, linear to linear-lanceolate, 2 - 4 x 0.1 – 0.5 cm, sessile, base attenuate, entire to distantly serrate, apex acute-apiculate, secondary nerves indistinct, glabrescent. Flowers inconspicuous, axillary, solitary. Pedicels sessile to 2 mm long; sepals yellow, 4 mm long, ovate acuminate; petals smaller than sepals, caducous; stamens 5, only 2 fertile; ovary globose, glabrous. Capsule 5 mm across, 3-lobed, puberulous, seeds 5-8. Seeds ovoid ellipsoid, 2.5 mm long, longitudinally - ribbed.
• Flower, Fruit : August-December
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kadapa district
  • Telangana : Nalgonda district, Khammam district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Eastern Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 25: 219 2001.
• 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=Hybanthus vatsavayae. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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