Botanical name: Swertia assamensis    Family: Gentianaceae (Gentian family)

Arunachal Swertia is a herb up to 30 cm tall with yellow flowers. Flowers are borne in leaf-axils, in unbranched or moderately branched cymes. Petals are inverted-wedge-shaped, up to 2.5 cm long, tip and margin lacerulate, nectary smooth. Leaves are in a rosette at the base, elliptic, margin minutely and irregularly laciniate, margin fringed with hairs. Arunachal Swertia is found in East Himalaya, from Bhutan to Arunachal Pradesh, at altitudes of 4000 m. Flowering: June-July.

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