Blepharis maderaspatensis explained

Blepharis maderaspatensis is a species of suffrutescent herb in the family Acanthaceae found in seasonally dry to arid habitats from Africa over Arabia to Southeast Asia.[1] [2] [3] [4]

Distribution

The species is native to continental Africa, Arabia and tropical parts of Asia: the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and Hainan in China.

Description

Maderaspatensis is described as being a  scrambling, suffrutescent perennial herb which can stem up to 2.5 m in height with whorled four hairy leaves that are elliptic of size  2–9(–12.5) × 0.8–3.5(–5) cm, at each node, with axillary spike inflorescence. and white flowers 1/2 inches long found in the clustered form .[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Blepharis maderaspatensis (L.) B.Heyne ex Roth | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science. Plants of the World Online.
  2. Web site: International Plant Names Index. www.ipni.org.
  3. Web site: Blepharis maderaspatensis (L.) B. Heyne GRIN-Global. npgsweb.ars-grin.gov.
  4. Web site: Blepharis maderaspatensis in Global Plants on JSTOR. plants.jstor.org.
  5. Endangered Saudi Arabian plants having ethnobotanical evidence as antidotes for scorpion envenoming. Abdulrahman Khazim. Al-Asmari. Rajamohamed. Abbasmanthiri. Nasreddien Mohammed Abdo. Osman. Byan Abdulrahman. Al-Asmari. July 29, 2020. Clinical Phytoscience. 6. 1. 53. Springer Link. 10.1186/s40816-020-00196-7. 220843101. free.

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