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Lepidagathis incurva Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don

Description

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A perennial, suberect, up to 60 cm tall herb with almost glabrous stems. Leaves with 1-2 cm long petiole; lamina lanceolate-oblong to broadly lanceolate-ovate, 7-8 x 2-3.5 cm, minutely pubescent, entire, acute. Flowers white, brown spotted, in dense axillary or terminal, oblong-ovoid, 1.5-3.5 cm long spikes; bracts lanceolate to ovate, 8-12 mm long, glandular-pubescent, acuminate, mucronate; bracteoles linear-lanceolate, c. 6-8 mm long, scarious, acuminate-mucronate. Calyx 5-partite almost to base, lobes unequal, linear-lanceolate, outer larger, c. 1 cm long, others 7-8 mm long. Corolla tube c. 6 mm long, dilated in the middle, limb 2-lipped, upper lip erect, emarginate, lower lip patent, longer than upper, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, in unequal pairs, included. Ovary oblong, glabrous, style filiform with slightly 2-lobed stigma. Capsule oblong, 5-6 mm long, glabrous except the tip, 4-seeded. Seeds orbicular, c. 1 mm across, hairy.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of Pakistan Vol. 0: 12 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of Pakistan @ eFloras.org
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S. I. Ali & M. Qaiser
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Distribution

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Subtropical Himalaya (Punjab to Bhutan), India, east to S. China, Malaysia.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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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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Elevation Range

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200-1400 m
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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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
author
K.K. Shrestha, J.R. Press and D.A. Sutton
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eFloras.org
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