Common name: Wall Lindenbergia • Hindi: पत्थर चट्टी Patthar-chatti • Marathi: Dhol
Botanical name: Lindenbergia muraria Family: Scrophulariaceae (Dog flower family) Synonyms: Stemodia muraria, Lindenbergia urticifolia
Wall Lindenbergia is an annual herb, 10-40 cm tall.
This wall and rock-loving plant varies from
being hairy to nearly hairless. Primary root undeveloped, lateral roots
numerous and fibrous. Cylindrical stems are simple or often branched,
straight or ascending. Leaf stalk is slender, hairy; leaf blade ovate,
2.5-6 cm, thin, nearly membranous, finely hairy or hairless, base
wedgeshaped. The leaf margin away from the base has rounded teeth. Tip is
acute to obtuse. Flowers solitary in leaf axils. Pedicel 1-5 mm, hairy.
Calyx 4-5 mm, densely hairy; tube membranous, somewhat white; sepals equal,
oblong-ovate. Flowers yellow, 8-9 mm; tube slightly longer than sepals,
hairy; limb subglabrous; lower lip conspicuously creased, petals
oblong-ovate, subequal, and apically obtuse; upper lip truncate,
emarginate. Anthers circular, stalked. Ovary and style densely covered with
long hairs. Stigma spherical, hairless. Capsule ovoid-spherical, to 5 mm,
densely hairy. Seeds yellow, 0.5-0.7 mm. Flowering: July-October.
Identification credit: Prashant Awale
| Photographed at Hadsar fort, Maharashtra. |
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