Brown Figwort is a nearly hairless annual herb with
stems 15-90 cm. Leaves are up to 10 x 6 cm, ovate, irregularly
sawtoothed, pointed to somewhat blunt, heart-shaped, flat, or rarely
rounded at base. Bracts re mostly leaf-like. Flowers are 6-9 mm, dark
red to purplish-brown. Flower-stalks are 2-3 times as long as the
sepal-cup, glandular. Sepals are triangular to ovate-lanceshaped,
pointed; margin not scarious. Staminode obovate-round, blunt. Capsule
about 6 mm, nearly spherical, somewhat pointed. Brown Figwort is native
to Mediterranean, naturalized in Niligiri hills.
Identification credit: S. Kasim
Photographed in Doddabetta, Ooty, Tamil Nadu.
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