Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Dorstenia elata Gardner

 

Family: Moraceae

 Habit: Herb

Habitat:  Evergreen forests and wet rocky areas in moist deciduous forests

Distribution: South India and Sri Lanka

Flowering and fruiting:  February-April

Key identification features: These herbs have simple, alternate leaves up to 9 x 2.5 cm, with an obovate or oblanceolate shape and sparsely hairy nerves. The flowers are monoecious, numerous, and situated on a 5-angled, discoid receptacle up to 1.5 cm across, with male flowers on the periphery and female flowers at the center. The fruit is an achene, sunken in the receptacle.

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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