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dioica Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr. in Rheedea 16: 21. 2006; N.P.Balakr. & Chakrab., Fam. Euphorb. India 182. 2007. Tragia involucrata sensu T. Cooke, Fl. Bombay 2(3): 621. 1906, p. p., non L. 1753.


Climbers with stinging hairs. Male flowers not seen. Female racemes leaf-opposed, 3 – 7 cm long, with ca 5 flowers per raceme; peduncles 1 – 4 cm long; flowers subsessile; sepals 6, ca 6 x 4 mm, wide ovate, fimbriate-laciniate; main body of sepals hirtellous; lobes of sepals 1 – 2 mm long.

Fl. Oct. – Nov.

Distrib. India: Deccan, Maharashtra.

Endemic.




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