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Agnimanth (Bruhad-Agnimanth) (Species 1)

Common Names


Common Names To be Updated Soon

About    Taxonomy


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CLASSIFICATION


TAXON 


Premna serratifolia L.

FAMILY 


Lamiaceae Martinov

ALTERNATE FAMILY


nom. cons.

OTHER FAMILY:


Verbenaceae

TRIBE


Viticoideae

GENUS 


Premna L.

SPECIES


serratifolia L. Mant. pl. 2:253. 1771


Plant Description


Shrubs or trees, 1-8 m tall, erect or rarely climbing. Branchlets with elliptic yellowish lenticels, densely pubescent when young, subglabrescent. Petiole 0.3-5 cm, puberulent; leaf blade oblong to broadly ovate, 3-15 X 2.5-9.5 cm, papery, subglabrous or pubescent only along veins, base broadly cuneate, rounded, or truncate, margin entire, slightly undulate, or crenate, apex acute to rarely acuminate or obtuse. Inflorescences 1.5-15 X 2.5-24 cm; peduncle 0.8-3 cm; bracts linear to lanceolate, to 6 mm, puberulent. Calyx cup-shaped, 1.5-3 mm, 2-lipped, lower lip subentire to shortly 3-dentate, upper lip longer than lower lip and 2-dentate, outside puberulent and yellow glandular. Corolla yellowish green, outside glandular, villous in throat, slightly 2-lipped; lower lip 3-lobed, lobes subequal or middle lobe slightly longer and broader; upper lip entire or emarginate. Ovary glabrous, apically glandular. Style 3.5-4 mm. Fruit globose, 2-4 mm in diam.

Flowering & Fruting Period: Apr-Oct.

 

*Description source:  Efloras.org

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