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Brahmi (Jal-Brahmi)

Common Names


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About    Taxonomy


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CLASSIFICATION


TAXON 


Bacopa monnieri (L.) Pennell

FAMILY 


Plantaginaceae Juss.

ALTERNATE FAMILY


nom. cons.

OTHER FAMILY:


Gratiolaceae; Scrophulariaceae; Veronicaceae

SUBTRIBE


Gratioleae

GENUS 


Bacopa Aubl.

SPECIES


monnieri (L.) Pennell Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 98:94. 1946


Plant Description


Stems creeping, rooting at nodes, succulent, glabrous. Leaves sessile, oblong-oblanceolate, 0.8-2 cm X 3-6 mm, margin entire or rarely dentate, apex rounded. Flowers axillary. Pedicel 0.5-3.5 cm. Bracteoles 2, linear, below calyx. Sepals 5, ca. 5 mm; lower and upper sepals ovate-lanceolate; lateral 2 sepals lanceolate to linear. Corolla blue, purple, or white, 8-10 mm, obscurely 2-lipped. Stamens didynamous. Stigma capitate. Capsule narrowly ovoid, enveloped in persistent calyx, apex acute. Seeds yellow-brown, ellipsoid, truncate at one end, longitudinally striate.

Flowering Period: May-Oct.

 

*Description source:  Efloras.org

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