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Mysore Bush-Violet
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Mysore Bush-Violet
P Native Photo: Deepa Mohan
Common name: Mysore Bush-Violet, Hairy Bush-Violet • Kannada: ಚುಳ್ಳಿ ಮುಳ್ಳಿ Chulli mulli, ಗುಬ್ಬಚ್ಚಿ ಗಿಡ Gubbacchi gida, ಕಾಡುಸುಲ್ಲಿ Kaadusulli • Malayalam: ചുള്ളി Chulli • Tamil: காட்டுச்சுள்ளி Kattu-c-culli • Telugu: బంతులగొబ్బి Bantalagobbi, ఎర్ర ములుగోరింట Erra mulugorinta, నల్ల ములుగోరింట Nalla mulugorinta Source: Names of Plants in India
Botanical name: Barleria mysorensis    Family: Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Synonyms: Barleria buxifolia var. mysorensis, Barleria obovata
Mysore Bush-Violet is a shrub with branchlets silky velvet-hairy, becoming spiny. In appearance it looks similar to Box-Leaf Bush-Violet, but can be distinguished from the fact that it is glandular-hairy. Flowers are borne singly in leaf-axils, nearly stalkless, purplish-blue. Outer two sepals are 1.2 x 0.8 cm, ovate, silky velvet-hairy, inner 0.5 cm, lanceshaped. Flower tube is up to 2 cm, petals 1 cm, obovate; filaments 1 cm; ovary ovoid, pointed at tip. Leaves are up to 2.5 x 1.8 cm, obovate-elliptic, tip blunt, with a fine point, base wedge-shaped, about 5 nerved; leaf-stalk 0.5 cm. Mysore Bush-Violet is found in South India and Sri Lanka. Flowering: November-April.
Identification credit: Deepa Mohan, S. Kasim Photographed in Rachanamadu, Karnataka & Bangalore.
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