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Strobilanthes lanatus  Nees

Family	:	Acanthaceae
Flowering and fruiting period	:	November-April
Distribution	:	Southern Western Ghats
Distribution in kerala	:	Kozhikkode, Kannur
Habitat	:	Dry hill slopes
Endemic / Exotic		Endemic to   Southern Western Ghats
Key Botanical Characters                                            :   Erect shrubs, Leaves opposite, broadly elliptic-ovate, acute or rounded at base, entire at margin, acute or acuminate with a twisted point at apex, coriaceous, glabrous above, sometimes silky when young or rarely when old leaves at base only, soft spreading floccose tawny woolly beneath; Inflorescence spikes, axillary or terminal, usually single, rarely branched, uninterrupted, 4-8 cm long, with grey or tawny wool; Corolla infundibuliform, ca 3.5 cm long, pale blue; tube faintly curved, Ovary ca 2 mm long, hairy above; style linear, ca 1.3 cm glabrous; stigma oblique.