Botanical name: Scrophularia peregrina    Family: Scrophulariaceae (Dog flower family)
Synonyms: Scrophularia geminiflora, Scrophularia lesbiaca, Scrophularia sexangularis

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.

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