Botanical name: Murdannia vaginata    Family: Commelinaceae (Dayflower family)
Synonyms: Commelina vaginata, Dilasia vaginata, Aneilema vaginatum

Sheathed Dewflower is a perennial herb with roots fibrous, woolly. Flowers are borne 1-5, in fascicles, carried on slender flower-cluster-stalk 5-10 cm long. Petals are blue, obovate-round. Fertile stamens 2; filaments velvet-hairy; staminodes 3 or 4. Sepals are lanceshaped, about 3 mm, persistent. Each flower-cluster-stalk is subtended by sheathlike involucral bracts, 1-3 on each stem, distant, striped. Flower-stalks are 1-1.5 cm, with 2 bracteoles, hairy distally. Stems are creeping or slightly robust and rising up, branched at base, usually simple distally, 15-50 cm x 1-2.2 mm, hairless or with a line of hairs. Leaves are 2 to several; leaf sheath open; leaf blade linear, 4-10 cm x 4-7 mm, hairless, margin fringed with hairs. Capsules are spherical, about 3 mm in diameter. Sheathed Dewflower is found usually on sandy beaches, in Western Ghats, East Himalaya, China, SE Asia to N. Australia. Flowering: August-September.

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