Lysimachia congestiflora Hemsl.

 
  • Family : PRIMULACEAE
    (Primrose Or Primula Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : KRISHNANEEL FAMILY (कृष्ण नील फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Primulaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Lysimachia gymnocephala Hand.-Mazz.; Lysimachia hui Diels; Lysimachia nigropunctata Masam.; Lysimachia rubroglandulosa C.Y.Wu; Lysimachia smithiana Craib; Lysimachia taiwaniana T.Suzuki ex M.T.Kao
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Lysimachia congestiflora Hemsl.
  • Common name : Dense-Flowered Loosestrife, Creeping Jenny
  • Habit : Perennial herb
  • Habitat : Ditches, roadsides, banks of rice paddies, damp forest margins; 200 - 2100 m. altitude
  • Key identification features : Perennial herbs; stems puberulous when young; Leaves broadly ovate-cordate or suborbicular, minutely puberulous, glandular punctate at margin; Flowers crowded among bracts at tip of branches, yellow; corolla lobes linear, glandular.
  • Flower, Fruit : May-June
  • Distribution :
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • West Bengal : Soureni, Mirik
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Tirap
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : China, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Qinghai, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Nepal to China and Indo-China, Taiwan
  • Literature :
    • G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 100
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Lysimachia congestiflora. Downloaded on 6 October 2024.

India Distribution

World Distribution

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