• Family : Acanthaceae
  (Acanthus Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ARUSA FAMILY (अडूसा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : Acanthaceae
• Synonym(s) : Goldfussia thomsonii Hook.; Pteracanthus alatus (Wall. ex Nees) Bremek.; Ruellia ampliata Edgew. ex Nees; Strobilanthes alata (Wall.) Nees; Strobilanthes atropurpurea var. wallichii (Nees) Kuntze; Strobilanthes latisepala Hemsl.
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Strobilanthes wallichii
• Common name : Kashmir Acanthus
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Forest, Shrubberies
• Key identification features : Flowers blue, in lax branched leafy clusters with leaf-like persistent bracts. Corolla-tube 2.5-4.5 cm, pale blue or nearly white, curved and broadly dilated from a short cylindrical base, and with dark blue or mauve rounded lobes spreading to 1.3-1.6 cm. Leaves 3-8 cm, elliptic long pointed, toothed, the lower stalked, the upper stalkless; stems weak, not soody, quadrangular, 15-60 cm. Capsule cylindrical to 2 cm, calyx-lobes lengthening to 2 cm in fruit.
• Flower, Fruit : June-July
• Distribution :
  • Kashmir : Kashmir
• Native : Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan, Tibet, Vietnam, West Himalaya
• Exotic/Native : Native
• Literature : Oleg P & Adam S (1984). Flowers of Himalaya. Oxford University Press: 1084
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Navendu Page, Deepak Kumar (2020). Pan India Bouquets. http://flora-peninsula-indica.ces.iisc.ac.in/pan/plants.php?name=Strobilanthes wallichii. Downloaded on 28 June 2022.

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