Fringed Spider Flower is an erect, branched, annual herb, growing up to
15-100 cm tall. The plant has angular stems and trifoliolate leaves on stalks
1.5-5 cm long. The leaflets are ovate to lancelike, 2-5 cm long, 0.5-2.5 cm
wide. Flowers blue or pink, occur singly in leaf axils. Sepals and
petals are 4 in number. Petals are about a cm long. Fruit is a 2-valved,
beaked capsule, 5-7 cm long, 4-5 mm wide. Fringed Spider Flower is native to
Tropical Africa, naturalized in India and elsewhere.
Flowering: May.
Identification credit: Jimmy
Photographed in Arunachal Pradesh & Maharashtra.
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