Family: Scrophulariaceae
Synonym: Razumovia indica (L.) Alston
Vernacular name:
Habit: Herb
Habitat: Moist
deciduous forests, grasslands and wet sandy fields
Distribution:
Indo-Malesia, South China
Flowering and Fruiting: September-January
Key identification features: This
plant is a diffuse, densely hispid herb
with orange-yellow roots. Its
leaves are basally opposite, and
the upper ones are alternate.
The flowers are solitary, subsessile, and axillary, with a rose-colored or white corolla. The capsule is dark brown, ovoid,
and loculicidal, covered by persistent calyx lobes.
Use: With delicate white,
star-shaped flowers, it serves as an ornamental plant in gardens and also acts
as ground cover.
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