Reinwardtia indica Dumort.

Species

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Characteristics

Shrubs, to 1 m tall. Branches gray, glabrous. Petiole 0.8-2.5 cm; leaf blade elliptic to obovate-elliptic, 2-8.8 × 0.7-3.3 cm, papery, base cuneate, margin entire or crenate, apex acute to subrounded and with an apiculate tip. Flowers 1.4-3 cm in diam. Sepals 0.9-1.2 × ca. 0.3 cm, distinct. Petals yellow, 1.7-3 × ca. 1.3 cm, distinct but basally confluent. Stamens ca. 1.3 cm; anthers ca. 2 mm; staminodes subulate. Styles 3 or 4, 0.7-1.8 cm. Capsule globose, splitting into 6 or 8 mericarps. Seeds reniform. Fl. and fr. Apr-Jan.
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A shrub. It grows 1 m tall. The flowers are yellow. They are 5 cm across.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.0
Root system adventitious-root
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Environment

It is a tropical plant. In Nepal it grows between 300-2,300 m above sea level. It suits hardiness zones 9-11.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

The young leaves are used as a vegetable.
Uses medicinal ornamental
Edible leaves
Therapeutic use Boil (unspecified), Founder(Veterinary) (unspecified), Larvicide (unspecified), Paralysis (unspecified), Wound (unspecified)
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Cultivation

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Images

Leaf

Reinwardtia indica leaf picture by Shreyash S (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Reinwardtia indica flower picture by Shreyash S (cc-by-sa)
Reinwardtia indica flower picture by Dr. Neeraj Kumar Tiwari (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Reinwardtia indica world distribution map, present in Bhutan, China, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, and Thailand

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:544868-1
WFO ID wfo-0001242741
COL ID 4RQS6
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 706747
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Synonyms

Linum boerhaviifolium Reinwardtia petiolata Reinwardtia trigyna Kittelocharis trigyna Linum cicanobum Linum repens Macrolinum trigynum Linum semitrigynum Reinwardtia repens Reinwardtia indica