Chascanum marrubifolium Fenzl ex Walp.
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Devendra Bhardwaj
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| Name of species- | Chascanum marrubifolium Fenzl ex Walp. |
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| Family- | Verbenaceae |
| Description- | A perennial
undershrub, (20-) 30-60 (-90) cm tall, much branched with branchlets usually
densely pubescent. Leaves suborbicular, ovate to broadly elliptic, 1-2.5 (-4)
cm long, 0.5-3 cm broad, coarsely dentate, obtuse, puberulous, prominently
veined; petiole 5-12 mm long. Spikes terminal, continuous, (3-) 5-15 (-25) cm
long with somewhat appressed flowers. Flowers white, sessile, bracteate;
bracts 3-5 mm long, lanceolate, pubescent with ciliate margins. Calyx
tubular, exceeding the bracts, up to 6 mm long, 5-ribbed and minutely toothed
on truncate apex, pubescent, usually splitting longitudinally outside in
fruit. Corolla more than twice as long as the calyx tube, 10-12 mm long,
slightly inflated below the limb; lobes 5, short, suborbicular, 2-2.5 mm in
diameter, spreading. Stamens 4, didynamous, included, with very short,
glabrous filaments and ovate anthers. Fruit dry, 3-4 mm long, with two
1-seeded, linear-oblong, glabrous, almost smooth pyrenes; seed c. as long as
the fruit. Fl.Per. Almost the year round. |
| Date- | 8 Aug,2009 |
| Place- | Smiriti Van,Jaipur,Rajasthan |
| Ref : | Chascanum marrubifolium in Flora of Pakistan @ efloras.org |
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