Derivation of specific name ¹

paniculata: with a branched racemose or cymose inflorescence (panicle)

Diagnostic ²

"Erect herbs, stem 6-angular. Leaves 4.5-6 x 2-3 cm, ovate, apex acute, base rounded or truncate, glabrescent above and tomentose below. Panicles axillary; pedicels to 2 cm; bracts 2, unequal, 11 and 8 mm, bracteoles 4, 6 mm, linear, hirsute; calyx lobes 4 mm, linear; corolla tube 5 mm, hairy, lobes 7 mm; filaments 5 mm, hairy, cells muticous; ovary 1 mm, oblong. Capsule ellipsoid, tomentose."

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/30288486
2. (c) India Biodiversity Portal, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/26339330

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

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