Common name: Fringed False Pimpernel • Manipuri: কিহোম মান Kihom Man
Botanical name: Lindernia ciliata Family: Scrophulariaceae (Dog flower family)
Synonyms: Bonnaya brachiata, Gratiola ciliata
Hairy Pimpernel is an annual, broad-leaved, prostrate, stoloniferous herb,
up to 13 cm high. Oppositely arranged simple leaves are nearly stalkless.
Leaf blade oblong to lanceolate-oblong, 0.7-4.5 X 0.3-1.2 cm, base
tapering, margins serrated with spiny teeth, tip acute or obtuse. Flowers
arranged in inflorescences, in racemes up to 3 cm long. Flowers light
purple or white, about 0.5 cm. Lower lip almost as long as upper lip, often
unequally 3-lobed, middle lobe larger than other lobes; upper lip ovate;
lobe apices rounded. Fertile stamens 2. Capsule cylindric, ca. 3 X as long
as persistent calyx, apex mucronate. Seeds irregularly triangular.
| Photographed in Alibag, Maharashtra. |
Identification credit: Uluberia Botanical Institute
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