Cyanotis vivipara
| Cyanotis vivipara | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Commelinales |
| Family: | Commelinaceae |
| Genus: | Cyanotis |
| Species: | C. vivipara
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| Binomial name | |
| Cyanotis vivipara Dalzell)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Cyanotis vivipara is a species of plants in the Commelinaceae family.
Description
The species is an epiphytic, subscapigerous herb measuring 10–25 cm in length. It is covered with scattered rufous spreading hairs or may become glabrescent in younger plants. The rootstock is small.[2]
Leaves: Both radical and cauline leaves are present. Radical leaves measure 3–8 × 1–2 cm, are sessile, linear to linear-lanceolate, with a narrowed base and an acute or acuminate apex. They are covered with pilose hairs. Cauline leaves are smaller, 1–2 × 0.2–0.5 cm, sessile, ovate to elliptic, with an acute apex and a pilose surface.[3]
Scape: The scape is slender, 8–25 cm long, and viviparous at the apex, bearing several small oblong-lanceolate, acute leaves.[4]
Inflorescence: The peduncle bears 2–4 flowers arranged in an umbel arising from the leaf axils. It is pilose and provided with two bracts.[5]
Flowers: Sepals 3, oblong, 2–3 mm long, and villous. Petals 3, white, connate to the middle. Stamens 6, with naked filaments.[6]
Fruit and Seeds: Capsules are oblanceolate, about 3 mm long, obtuse, hairy, and recurved after dehiscence. They are 3-celled, containing two seeds per cell. Seeds are cylindric and smooth.[7]
References
- ^ https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:172550-1#synonyms
- ^ Dalzell, N. 1851, ‘Cyanotis vivipara’, Hooker’s Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany, vol. 3, p. 226.
- ^ Gamble, J.S. 1931, Flora of the Madras Presidency, p. 1551, Adlard & Son Ltd., London. (Repr. 1967, vol. 3, p. 1082.)
- ^ Kammathy, S. 1987, ‘Cyanotis vivipara’, in Nayar, M.P. & Sastry, A.R.K. (eds), Red Data Book of Indian Plants, vol. 1, Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta, p. 124.
- ^ Karthikeyan, S., Jain, S.K., Nayar, M.P. & Sanjappa, M. 1989, Florae Indicae Enumeratio: Monocotyledonae, Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta, p. 24.
- ^ Lakshminarasimhan, P. 1996, ‘Cyanotis vivipara’, in Sharma, B.D., Karthikeyan, S. & Singh, N.P. (eds), Flora of Maharashtra State: Monocotyledons, Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta, p. 147.
- ^ Mishra, D.K. & Singh, N.P. 2001, Endemic and Threatened Flowering Plants of Maharashtra, Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta, p. 241.