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Common Names
Kali-Musli
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Taxonomy
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to access the GRIN database record about the specific taxonomical hierarchy (Family, Genus etc.).CLASSIFICATION
TAXON
Curculigo orchioides Gaertn.
FAMILY
Hypoxidaceae R. Br.
ALTERNATE FAMILY
nom. cons.
OTHER FAMILY:
Liliaceae
GENUS
Curculigo Gaertn.
SPECIES
orchioides Gaertn. Fruct. sem. pl. 1:63, t. 16, fig. 11. 1788
Plant Description
Plants 10-35 cm tall. Root tubers elongated. Leaves radical, lanceolate, plicate, sparsely long ciliate. Scape short, hidden among the leaf bases. Flowers in racemes, subsessile, the upper staminate, lower hermaphrodite, bracteate; bracts lanceolate. Tepals elliptic-oblong, 5-7 mm long, yellow, ciliate. Stamens about half the length of the perianth segments, anther linear. Ovary pubescent, separated from the perianth by a stipe, lanceolate, locules imperfect; ovules 6-8; stigmas 3. Fruit 1-4-seeded, beaked. Seeds oblong, grooved.
Flowering Period: July-August.
