Pan India Bouquets

Cyananthus lobatus Wall. ex Benth.

Family : Campanulaceae
(Bellflower Family)
Family (Hindi name) : DHAWAL FAMILY (धवल फैमिली)
Family (as per The APG System III) : Campanulaceae
Synonym(s) : Cyananthus farreri (C.Marquand) C.Marquand; Cyananthus insignis R.E.Grahame
Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Cyananthus lobatus Wall. ex Benth.
Common name : Trailing Bellflower
Habit : Herb
Habitat : Shrubberies
Key identification features : Pilose herb. Calyx with black spreading hairs. Corolla blue, violet or rarely white
Flower, Fruit : July-September
Distribution :
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Chamba district, Kinnaur district
Native : India (Punjab), Himalaya to China (NW. Yunnan)
Exotic/Native : Native
World Distribution : Bangladesh, China South-Central, East Himalaya, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Tibet, West Himalaya
Literature : Oleg P & Adam S (1984). Flowers of Himalaya. Oxford University Press: 223; Chowdhery, H. J. & Wadhwa, B. H (1984). Flora of Himachal Pradesh Vol. 2. Published BSI: 433; Nair, N. G (1977).Flora of Bashahr Himalayas. International Bioscience Publishers: 171
Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Navendu Page, Deepak Kumar (2020). Pan India Bouquets. http://flora-peninsula-indica.ces.iisc.ac.in/pan/plants.php?name=Cyananthus lobatus. Downloaded on 6 December 2023.