Family: Boraginaceae
Synonym: Heliotropium marifolium J.Koenig ex
Retz.
Habit:
Herb
Habitat:
Dry and moist deciduous forests, also in the plains
Distribution:
India to Hainan and Peninsula Malaysia, Jawa to Lesser Sunda Islands
Flowering and Fruiting: April-June
Key identification features:
Scabrous herbs, branches procumbent, radiating from the rootstock. Leaves
lanceolate to elliptic, base and apex acute, strigosely hirsute, subsessile.
Flowers in axillary and terminal few-flowered short cymes Corolla white, Fruit
4-lobed, shorter than the persistent calyx, globose, eventually separating into
4 nutlets.
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