| Indian Gentian |
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 ative | Photo: Navendu Pagé |
Botanical name: Swertia hookeri Family: Gentianaceae (Gentian family)
Herbs, annual or perennial, 25-80 cm tall. Leaves mostly basal, in a rosette. Stem leaves in whorls of 3-6. Flowers 4-5-merous, sometimes nodding. intracalycine membrane. Corolla pale blue-green to pale purple, with blue veins, campanulate, 2-2.5 cm in diam., tube 2-3 mm; lobes oblong to oblong-spatulate, 1.2-1.7 × 0.8-1.1 cm, apex rounded to truncate. Indian Gentian is native to Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim.
| Photographed in Sikkim. |