Common name: Narrow-Leaved St Johns Wort • Nepalese: चली म्हॆंदो Chali mhendo
Botanical name: Hypericum podocarpoides Family: Clusiaceae (St John's Wort family)
Narrow-Leaved St Johns Wort is a small branched shrub, growing to 1.5 tall.
It has branches covered with numerous linear-lancelike, or narrlow elliptic,
pointed leaves. Leaves are stalkless and arranged such that one opposite pair
is perpendicular to the next. Flowers are borne in few flower clusters are
the end of branches. Narrow-Leaved St Johns Wort is found on open slopes and
river banks in Uttarakhand at altitudes of 800-2100 m.
Flowering: April-July.
Identification credit: Nongthombam Ulysses
| Photographed in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand. |
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