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Kutki (Species 2)

Common Names


Common Names To be Updated Soon

About    Taxonomy


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CLASSIFICATION


TAXON 


Picrorhiza kurrooa Royle ex Benth.

FAMILY 


Plantaginaceae Juss.

ALTERNATE FAMILY


nom. cons.

OTHER FAMILY:


Scrophulariaceae; Veronicaceae

SUBTRIBE


Veroniceae

GENUS 


Picrorhiza Royle ex Benth.

SPECIES


kurrooa Royle ex Benth. Scroph. ind. 47. 1835


Plant Description


A small perennial herb; leaves radical, spoon shaped, toothed rather leathery, tip rounded, base narrowed into a winged sheath stalk; flowers pale or purplish blue, in dense spike, sepals 5, corolla tube curved and broad, stamens 4, Rootstock as thick as the little figure coverd with withered leaf bases. Capsule ovoid, swollen

 

*Description source: Not verified.

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