Blepharis maderaspatensis

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]

Blepharis maderaspatensis
Blepharis maderaspatensis at Kambalakonda Wildlife Sanctuary
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Acanthaceae
Genus: Blepharis
Species:
B. maderaspatensis
Binomial name
Blepharis maderaspatensis
(L.) B.Heyne ex Roth, Nov. Pl. Sp. 320. (1821)
Synonyms
List
    • Acanthodium procumbens Nees
    • Acanthus ciliaris Burm. fil.
    • Acanthus maderaspatensis L.
    • Acanthus procumbens Herb. Madr. ex Wall.
    • Blepharis abyssinica Hochst. ex A. Rich.
    • Blepharis boerhaaviifolia Pers.
    • Blepharis boerhaviifolia var. maderaspatensis (L.) Nees
    • Blepharis breviciliata Fiori
    • Blepharis maderaspatensis var. abyssinica Fiori
    • Blepharis maderaspatensis subsp. rubiifolia (Schumach.) Napper
    • Blepharis procumbens Heyne ex Roth
    • Blepharis procurrens Nees
    • Blepharis rubiifolia Schum.
    • Blepharis teaguei Oberm.
    • Blepharis togodelia Solms ex Schweinf.

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