Onosma hookeri C.B.Clarke

Species

Angiosperms > Boraginales > Boraginaceae > Onosma

Characteristics

Herbs perennial, 20-30 cm tall, hispid, strigose, hairs discoid at base. Stems single to several, cespitose, not branched. Basal leaves oblanceolate, 5-15 × 0.5-1.5 cm, abaxially densely short strigose, adaxially hispid; stem leaves sessile, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 3-8 cm × 4-10 mm, base obtuse to rounded, apex acute. Inflorescences usually solitary, terminal, 3-5 cm wide at anthesis, many flowered; bracts narrowly lanceolate. Pedicel 2-4 mm, densely hispid. Flowers crowded. Calyx lobes subulate, 1-1.5 cm, hispid, strigose. Corolla blue, purple, or light purple-red, tubular-campanulate, 1.7-3.3 cm; throat 7-8 mm wide, base 2-3 mm wide, strigose above middle and pubescent outside, glabrous inside; lobes broadly triangular, ca. 1.5 × 3 mm, margin revolute. Filaments linear, 5-6 mm, inserted at middle to ca. 2/3 from base of corolla tube; anthers united at base, 7-8 mm, sterile apex ca. 1 mm. Style exserted, 2.2-2.8 cm, glabrous. Nutlets unknown. Fl. Jun-Jul.
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A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 20-30 cm tall. The leaves at the base are broadly sword shaped and 5-15 cm long by o.5-1.5 cm wide. The stem leaves are narrowly sword shaped and 3-8 cm long by 4-10 mm wide.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.2 - 0.3
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Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
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JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
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Environment

It is a temperate plant. In Northeastern India it grows between 3,000-4,000 m above sea level.
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-11

Usage

An edible red dye is obtained from the dried roasted stems.
Uses dye medicinal
Edible stems
Therapeutic use Purgative (unspecified), Cough(Veterinary) (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 30 - 60
Germination temperacture (C°) 10
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Distribution

Onosma hookeri world distribution map, present in Bhutan, China, and India

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:119682-1
WFO ID wfo-0001216076
COL ID 49LVM
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Onosma hookeri Onosma wardii Onosma hookeri var. hookeri Onosma hookeri var. wardii

Lower taxons

Onosma hookeri var. longiflora Onosma hookeri var. hirsuta