Family:
Eriocaulaceae
Habit:
Herb
Habitat:
Lateritic hillock in the plains
Flowering
& Fruiting: August-December
Distribution:
Endemic to Southern Western Ghats
Key identification features:
The species is allied to Eriocaulon
eurypeplon Koernicke, in its two free male and female sepals, female sepals
being keeled and acute and not exceeding the floral bracts, acuminate leaf apex
and setiform seed appendages appearing in vertical rows, but differs mainly in
having yellow seeds with solitary appendage arising from transverse radial
walls, curved and connate with the adjacent ones of the same vertical row
forming longitudinal parallel ribs on the surface of the seeds.
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