Blepharis maderaspatensis
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| Blepharis maderaspatensis at Kambalakonda Wildlife Sanctuary | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Acanthaceae |
| Genus: | Blepharis |
| Species: | B. maderaspatensis
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Blepharis maderaspatensis is a species of suffrutescent herb in the family Acanthaceae found in seasonally dry to arid habitats from Africa over Arabia to Southeast Asia.[1][2][3][4][5]
Distribution
[edit]The species is native to continental Africa, Arabia and tropical parts of Asia: the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and Hainan in China.
Description
[edit]Maderaspatensis is described as being a scrambling, suffrutescent perennial herb which can stem up to 2.5 m in height with whorled four hairy leaves that are elliptic of size 2–9(–12.5) × 0.8–3.5(–5) cm, at each node, with axillary spike inflorescence. and white flowers 1/2 inches long found in the clustered form .[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Blepharis maderaspatensis (L.) B.Heyne ex Roth | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online.
- ^ "International Plant Names Index". www.ipni.org.
- ^ "Blepharis maderaspatensis (L.) B. Heyne GRIN-Global". npgsweb.ars-grin.gov.
- ^ "Blepharis maderaspatensis (L.) B. Heyne ex Roth". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
- ^ "Blepharis maderaspatensis in Global Plants on JSTOR". plants.jstor.org.
- ^ Al-Asmari, Abdulrahman Khazim; Abbasmanthiri, Rajamohamed; Osman, Nasreddien Mohammed Abdo; Al-Asmari, Byan Abdulrahman (July 29, 2020). "Endangered Saudi Arabian plants having ethnobotanical evidence as antidotes for scorpion envenoming". Clinical Phytoscience. 6 (1): 53. doi:10.1186/s40816-020-00196-7. S2CID 220843101 – via Springer Link.
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