Reinwardtia indica
Dumort., Comm. Bot. 19. 1822. Duthie, Fl. upp. Gang. Pl. 1: 123. 1903. Linum trigynum Roxb. in Asiat. Res. 6: 357. 1799, non L. 1753. Reinwardtia trigyna (Roxb.) Planch. in Hook., J. Bot. 7: 522. 1848; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 412.1874.
Hindi: Balbasant.
Tufted undershrubs, 75 - 140 cm high; branches erect and prostrate; branchlets angled or terete, glabrous. Leaves 1 - 2 x 0.5 - 4.5 cm, usually elliptic-obovate or narrowly oblong-lanceolate, decurrent into a short petiole at base, acute or rounded and mucronate at apex, glabrous, lateral nerves usually 5 - 9; petioles 2 - 3 cm long, somewhat sheathing at base. Flowers ca 2.5 cm across, yellow, scented, solitary or crowded at ends of branchlets or in up to 4.5 cm long racemes; pedicels up to 2 cm long, sparesly pilose, bracteate and bracteolate. Sepals 0.5 - 1 cm long, ovate to lanceolate, acute, 3 - 5-parallel veined. Petals bright golden yellow, 1 - 3.5 cm long, broadly ovate to obovate, abruptly narrowed at base. Stamens 5 alternating with 5 staminodes, 0.5 - 3 cm long; filaments dilated and connate at base with 2 - 3 glands adnate to the base; anthers basifixed. Ovary ovoid-triangular; styles usually 3, rarely 4, 5 or 7, free or connate at base; stigmas of long styles larger than those of short ones. Capsules globose, shorter than sepals, dehiscing into 6 - 8 cocci, cocci 1-seeded. Seeds thin, reniform, compressed.
Fl. & Fr. Sept. - March.
Distrib. India: Throughout.
Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, Indo-China and China.
Tufted undershrubs, 75 - 140 cm high; branches erect and prostrate; branchlets angled or terete, glabrous. Leaves 1 - 2 x 0.5 - 4.5 cm, usually elliptic-obovate or narrowly oblong-lanceolate, decurrent into a short petiole at base, acute or rounded and mucronate at apex, glabrous, lateral nerves usually 5 - 9; petioles 2 - 3 cm long, somewhat sheathing at base. Flowers ca 2.5 cm across, yellow, scented, solitary or crowded at ends of branchlets or in up to 4.5 cm long racemes; pedicels up to 2 cm long, sparesly pilose, bracteate and bracteolate. Sepals 0.5 - 1 cm long, ovate to lanceolate, acute, 3 - 5-parallel veined. Petals bright golden yellow, 1 - 3.5 cm long, broadly ovate to obovate, abruptly narrowed at base. Stamens 5 alternating with 5 staminodes, 0.5 - 3 cm long; filaments dilated and connate at base with 2 - 3 glands adnate to the base; anthers basifixed. Ovary ovoid-triangular; styles usually 3, rarely 4, 5 or 7, free or connate at base; stigmas of long styles larger than those of short ones. Capsules globose, shorter than sepals, dehiscing into 6 - 8 cocci, cocci 1-seeded. Seeds thin, reniform, compressed.
Fl. & Fr. Sept. - March.
Distrib. India: Throughout.
Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, Indo-China and China.
