Blepharis_maderaspatensis

<i>Blepharis maderaspatensis</i>

Blepharis maderaspatensis

Species of blepharis

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]

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Distribution

The species is native to continental Africa, Arabia and tropical parts of Asia: the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and Hainan in China.

Description

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

  1. [1]
    "Blepharis maderaspatensis (L.) B.Heyne ex Roth | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online.
  2. [2]
    "International Plant Names Index". www.ipni.org.
  3. [3]
    "Blepharis maderaspatensis (L.) B. Heyne GRIN-Global". npgsweb.ars-grin.gov.
  4. [4]
    "Blepharis maderaspatensis (L.) B. Heyne ex Roth". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  5. [5]
    "Blepharis maderaspatensis in Global Plants on JSTOR". plants.jstor.org.
  6. [6]
    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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