Cyanotis lanceolata - Lanceleaf Dew-Grass

Lanceleaf Dew-Grass is an annual to perennial, creeping herb, without definite base. Stem has 0.5-5 cm long internodes, with line of hairs; flowering shoots much branched, erect; leaf sheath 0.2-1.5 cm long, sparsely to densely hairy. Leaves are lanceshaped, 3-12 x 1-2.2 cm, tip tapering, base rounded to wedge-shaped, upper surface hairless, lower densely appressed silky finely velvet-hairy. Flowers are borne at branch-ends and in leaf axils, carried on flower-cluster-stalks which are 1-8 together. Flowers are blue or purple or pale pink. Petals are blue to purple or pale pink, united to form a tube, lobes free; stamens protruding, filaments at tip tumid, densely bearded with blue to pale pink hairs, anthers yellow; style at tip tumid, sparsely bearded with blue hairs. Sepals are inverted-lanceshaped 0.5-0.7 x 0.1-0.2 cm. Bracts are lanceshaped, leaf-like; bracteoles 0.5-1.2 x 0.3-0.5 cm, ovate to sickle shaped, margin fringed with hairs. Capsules are about 2 x 2 mm, ovoid to ellipsoid, sparsely to densly finely velvet-hairy at tip. Lanceleaf Dew-Grass is found in Tamil Nadu; Sri Lanka; near seasonal streams, waterfalls, undergrowth; in partial shade. Flowering: August-March.