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Plant Description
S. chirayita has an erect, about 2–3 ft long stem,the middle portion is round, while the upper is four-angled, with a prominent decurrent line at each angle. The stems are orange brown or purplish in colour , and contain large con-tinuous yellowish pith. The root is simple, tapering andstout, short, almost 7 cm long and usually half an inch thick. Flowering in S. chirayita is in the form of numerous small, axillary, opposite, lax cymes arranged as short branchesand the whole inflorescence is 2 ft long. Flowers are small, stalked, green-yellow, tinged with purple colour,rotate and tetramerous. The corolla is twice as long as the calyx and divided near the base into fourovate–lanceolate segments. The upper surface of the petal has a pair of nectaries covered with oblong scales and ending as fringes . Fruit is a small, one-celled capsule with a trans-parent yellowish pericarp. It dehisces from above, septi-cidally into two valves. Seeds are numerous, minute, many-sided and angular. Floral characteristics such ascolourful corolla and presence of nectaries support cross-pollination in the species. Generally, bees (Apoidae, Hy-menoptera) are the pollinators of S. chirayita
*Description source: Not verified.