Common name: Lindenbergia
Botanical name: Lindenbergia grandiflora Family: Scrophulariaceae (Dog flower family)
Lindenbergia is an annual or perennial herb, basally woody, erect or decumbent,
much branched,
hairy, rooting from lower nodes. Leaves opposite or upper alternate.
Yellow flowers solitary or in terminal spikes or racemes.
The petal structure is basically
2-lipped, tube tubular - the lower lip is larger and is distinctly 3-lobed.
Upper lip short, wide, apex truncate, subemarginate, or 2-lobed.
Stamens 4, didynamous, included, inserted below middle of corolla tube;
filaments usually glabrous; anther locules distinct, connective often forming
a stalk.
The genus occurs mostly in India with few species in tropical Africa and
Malaysia.
| Photographed in Mussoorie. |
Identification credit: Navendu Pagé
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