Hemigraphis latebrosa

• Botanical Name : Hemigraphis latebrosa (Roth.) Nees.
• Synonyms : Ruellia latebrosa Roth.
• Common Name : Shade Loving Hemigraphis, Fulki
• Plant Family : Acanthaceae
• Plant Form : Herb
• Occurrence (Special Areas) : Indroda Park

About Hemigraphis latebrosa Plant :

• Habit : An annualherb with slender stem covered with soft white hairs with branches procumbent.
• Stem : Densely white-hairy.
• Leaves : Opposite, ovate, crenate-serrate, apex acute or acuminate, base cuneate, bulbous based hairs on both sides, petiolate.
• Inflorescence : Axillary or terminal capitate spikes.
• Flowers :
  • Bracteate, bracts elliptic-oblong, 1-nerved, long-hairy, ciliate, hairs sometimes gland-tipped.
  • Calyx 5-lobed, free near to the base, lobes unequal, ciliate, sparsely glandular-hairy, larger lobe oblong-linear, other 4-lobes linear.
  • Corolla blue, funnel-shaped, tube broad above, lobes unequal, rounded.
  • Stamens 4, didynamous, included, longer filaments bearded in the upper part, anther cells oblong.
  • Ovary 2-loculed, hairy, style thickened below the blunt stigma.
• Fruit : Capsule linear-oblong, minutely pubescent with seeds 6, yellowish-white, compressed, hairy.
• Flowering and Fruiting Time : November - March