Small, spreading herb with erect stems bearing white flowers, grows in pre- monsoon season on open rocky areas
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📚 Overview
Diagnostic Keys
Slender herb, with white bracts and procumbent stems with small leaves
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Description
Procumbent herbs with woody rootstock; branches slender, several from the base, subterete, glabrous. Leaves opposite, 7.5 x 3 cm, narrowly elliptic-oblong, obtuse, base attenuate, glabrous; lateral nerves 4 or 5 pairs; petiole to 1 cm long. Spikes terminal, to 7 cm long; bract and bracteoles narrowly ovate-lanceolate, 8 x 2 mm, glabrescent. Calyx lobes lanceolate, pubescent, 3 mm long, Corolla 1 cm long, pubescent, greenish yellow with dark brown streaks; upper lip broadly ovate, 2-fid at apex; lower lip 3-lobed, lobes obtuse, middle lobe twice as broad as the lateral lobes. Filaments pubescent at base. Capsule 1.2 cm long, pubescent, oblong-clavate; seeds 4, 3 mm across, densely tubercled.
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Habit: Herb
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Differs from other Justicia species in having small leaves, herbaceous nature, white bracts and growing mostly during pre monsoon period.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
References
Justicia trinervia Vahl. Enum, 1: 156. 1804
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📚 Natural History
Cyclicity
Flowering and fruiting: January-April
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Flowering period: April – June
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Morphology
Herbs, procumbent; root-stock woody. Leaves 1.0-3.5 x 0.6-0.9 cm, elliptic-oblong or obovate-oblong, apex obtuse, base tapering. Flowers in continuous, somewhat lax, 2.5-12.5cm long spikes. Capsules c 1.2 x 0.5 cm, oblong-clavate, shortly pointed, pubescent. Seeds 4, c 0.3 cm across, densely clothed with acute tubercles.
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Physiology
Not available
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Trophic Strategy
autotrophy; primary producer
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Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Western Ghats, Moist Deciduous Forests. Endemic to Southern Western Ghats
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
System: Terrestrial, High altitude plateaus.
Habitat: shallow soils of lateritic origin and high rainfall zone.
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Moist deciduous forests
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Description
Maharashtra: Raigad, Satara, Sindhudurg
Karnataka: Chikmagalur, Mysore, N. Kanara, Shimoga, S. Kanara
Kerala: Kasaragod, Kottayam, Palakkad, Thrissur
Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore, Nilgiri
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Global Distribution
Southern Western Ghats
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Kottayam, Kasaragode, Palakkad, Thrissur
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Endemic Distribution
Endemic
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Southern Western Ghats
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
Risk Statement
Not known
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Conservation Status
Not assessed by the IUCN redlist.
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Legislation
None
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Protection Legal Status
None
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📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
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Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
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References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
- Singh, N. P., P. Lakshminarasimhan, S. Karthikeyan & P. V. Prasanna (2001). Flora of Maharashtra State: Dicotyledones Volume. 2. Flora of India Series 2.
- Justicia trinervia Vahl, Enum. Pl. 1: 156. 1804; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 526. 1885; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1079(755). 1924; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 284. 1985; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 305. 1989; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 353. 1990; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 15. 1996; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 342. 1996.
Information Listing > References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
- Singh, N. P., P. Lakshminarasimhan, S. Karthikeyan & P. V. Prasanna (2001). Flora of Maharashtra State: Dicotyledones Volume. 2. Flora of India Series 2.
- Justicia trinervia Vahl, Enum. Pl. 1: 156. 1804; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 526. 1885; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1079(755). 1924; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 284. 1985; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 305. 1989; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 353. 1990; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 15. 1996; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 342. 1996.
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Lamiales |
| Family | Acanthaceae |
| Genus | Justicia |
| Species | Justicia betonica L. |
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