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Thunbergia
erecta (Benth.) Anders.
Synonym
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Meyenia erecta
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Family
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Acanthaceae
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Local name
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English- Blue bell
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Flowering and fruiting
period
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Throughout the year
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Distribution
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Western Tropical Africa, widely cultivated
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Distribution in Kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Grown along the fence in the plains
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Uses
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Grown in gardens
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Key botanical
characters :
Erect
shrubs, to 1.5 m high; branches woody, glabrous; bark white. Leaves simple,
opposite, ovate or ovate-lanceolate,
entire, glabrous, acuminate at apex, rounded or acuteat base. Flowers in
axillary, few-flowered racemes; bracts foliaceous. Calyx teeth 5-9, linear.
Corolla purple or white, tube to 3.5 cm long, lobes obovate, obtuse.
Capsules, globose below, suddenly narrowed into a barren, sword-shaped beak.
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