Family: Acanthaceae
Vernacular name: Nonganampullu, Paramullu, Venappacha
Habit: Herb
Habitat: Laterirte hills near seacoast
Distribution: Endemic to South India (Kerala)
Flowering &
Fruiting: December-April
Key identification
features: Perennial, prostrate, much branched herbs with woody
rootstock, attached to hard lateritic soil; stem always glabrous, quadrangular,
more or less winged. Leaves opposite. Flowers sessile; Corolla pink with white
to yellow palate. Fruit a compressed capsule, glabrous; seeds 2, flat, softly
hairy with white aril.
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