Biophytum longibracteatum
Tad. & Jacob in J. Indian Bot. Soc. 4: 87. 1924; C.
Fischer in Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1868. 1935.
Herbs; stems simple or sometimes shortly branched, pubescent. Leaves paripinnate, 2 -
5 cm long; rachis hairy; petioles short-hairy; stipules linear, minute; leaflets 4 -
11 pairs, subsessile, 5 -
10 mm long. Peduncles slender, densely hairy. Flowers few to
many, in umbels; pedicels short, slender, glabrous; bracts very conspicuous, lanceolate,
acuminate, 5 -
8 mm long. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 5 - 6 mm long. Petals 5, connate,
yellow. Stamens 10, 5 long alternating with 5 short; filaments shortly pubescent in
middle. Capsules obovate,half the length of calyx; seeds minute with tuberculate ridges.
Fl. & Fr. Feb.
Distrib. India: Peninsular India, Tamil Nadu.
Endemic.
Fl. & Fr. Feb.
Distrib. India: Peninsular India, Tamil Nadu.
Endemic.