Ceylon Forget-Me-Not is an erect, branched herb;
branches more or less bristly with bulbous-based hairs. Leaves 3-8 x
1-1.8 cm, ovate-elliptic, margin fringed with hairs, entire or
obscurely toothed, tip pointed, base wedge-shaped or subpointed,
bristly on both surfaces. Flowers bluish-white, in at branch-ends,
simple or furcately branched one-sided racemes ; flower-cluster-stalk
hairy ; flower-stalks 3 mm long, curved. Calyx 5-lobed ; tube 1 mm long
; sepals 2 x 1 mm, enlarged in fruit, hairy without. Flowers are 3-4 mm
long, rotate ; Petals rounded at tip ; scales 5 at throat. Stamens 5,
inserted on flower tube ; filaments short ; anthers 2-celled. Ceylon
Forget-Me-Not is found in Afghanistan to the Indian Subcontinent, to
China and SE Asia. In India it is prominent in Western Ghats and the
Himalaya. Flowering: June-November.
Identification credit: Tabish
Photographed in Uttarkhand & Maharashtra.
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