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Striga masuria (Buch.-Ham. ex Benth.) Benth.

Description

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Perennials, 30-60 cm tall, entirely hispid. Stems erect, quadrangular, simple or weakly branched. Leaf blade linear, 2-3 cm, longest at middle of stem. Flowers solitary, rarely in a spike. Calyx ca. 1 cm at anthesis, to 1.5 cm in fruit, 15-ribbed; lobes ca. 2 X as long as tube, linear-elliptic. Corolla pink, white, or yellow; tube to 1.2 cm, apically curved forward; upper lip ca. 1/2 as long as lower, apex notched. Capsule ovoid, ca. 6 mm. Fl. summer-autumn.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of China Vol. 18: 88 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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Distribution

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This species is based on Wall. 3877 from Morong which is probably outside Nepal.
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Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal Vol. 0 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal @ eFloras.org
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K.K. Shrestha, J.R. Press and D.A. Sutton
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Distribution

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Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, S Guizhou, Hunan (Hengshan Xian), S Jiangsu, SW Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan [Cambodia, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam].
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of China Vol. 18: 88 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of China @ eFloras.org
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Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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Habitat

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Grassy slopes, hard forests; to 1100 m.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of China Vol. 18: 88 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of China @ eFloras.org
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Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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Synonym

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Buchnera masuria Buchanan-Hamilton ex Bentham, Scroph. Ind. 41. 1835.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of China Vol. 18: 88 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of China @ eFloras.org
editor
Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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eFloras.org
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eFloras