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Official Record
Flora of Jammu                 
Botanical name Crossandra
infundibuliformis
(
L.) Nees
Synonyms Justicia infundibuliformis L.Crossandra undulaefolia Salisb.
Family Acanthaceae
Plant Stage Flowering
Place of collection RRL Nursery
Altitude (m) 300
Date of Collection 3-09-1963
Accession No. 9911
Total Accessions 3
Shelf PlacementCup-Board No./ Pigeon holeNo.: 2/c
Remarks A small glabrous, evergreen undershrub, up to 1 (-1.5) m tall with terete branchlets. Leaves crowded near the spike, on 1-4 cm long petiole; lamina ovate-elliptic to lanceolate-oblong, 5-10 x 2-5 cm, basally attenuate, glabrous, margin undulate-crenate, acute at tips. Spikes dense, terminal and axillary, up to 15 cm long. Flowers bright orange-scarlet with yellow throat; bracts lanceolate, 12-15 x 4-5 mm
Identified by A.K. Dutt
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