Eurysolen gracilis Prain

Species

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Characteristics

Shrubs 0.5-2 m tall. Branches cylindric, directed outward, yellow or brownish strigose. Petiole 1.5-3.5 cm, densely strigose; leaf blade obovate-rhomboid or oblong-obovate, 4-8(-9) × 3-5(-7.2) cm, sparsely hirsute, yellowish glandular, hirsute along veins abaxially, base cuneate or slightly decurrent, margin serrate to crenate, apex acute. Spikes 4-9 cm; bracts triangular-ovate, margin entire, acuminate. Pedicel ca. 1 mm. Calyx 3-4 mm, sparsely pilose outside, glandular; teeth triangular, ca. 1 mm, apex acute, ciliate; anterior teeth slightly longer. Corolla white, ca. 7 mm, hirsute, glandular; upper lip erect, 2-lobed. Filaments white pubescent. Nutlets with basal and inconspicuous areolae. Fl. Dec-Feb, fr. Mar-Jun.
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Herb or undershrub, 0.30-1 m. Stem and branches puberulous. Leaves membranaceous, ovate to rhomboid, 6-8 by 2.5-4 cm, acute or acuminate, serrate, glabrescent on both surfaces, base, acute; petiole slender, 1.5-3 cm. Flowers 6-10(-30) in a verticillaster, in terminal or upper-axillary spikes, 8-15 cm long. Calyx tubular, 3-3.5 mm long, in fruit 4-4.5 mm, sparsely puberulous and papillose-glandular externally, but hardly 2-lipped. Corolla white, tubular, 5-6.5 mm long; limb 2-lipped; upper lip short. Stamens exserted. Ovary very shortly stalked. Nutlets c. 1 mm (immature).
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Open places in moist mountain valleys, 700-1800 m. Fl. Apr.-Jan. Though in Java and Sumbawa occurring in a seasonal climate region, the two rare localities in the mountains are both almost certainly local 'everwet islands'.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Uses medicinal
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Distribution

Eurysolen gracilis world distribution map, present in China, Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Uruguay

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:446949-1
WFO ID wfo-0000965550
COL ID 3D6NC
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Synonyms

Eurysolen gracilis