Clasping-Leaf Borage
Botanical name: Trichodesma inaequale
Family: Boraginaceae (Forget-me-not family)
Synonyms: Trichodesma amplexicaule
Clasping-Leaf Borage is an erect hairy herb with
scattered hairs. Lower leaves are oppositely arranged, stalkless. linear-oblong.
Upper ones are alternately arranged, heart-shaped, stem-clasping, broadly
ovate, long pointed. Flowers appear singly, laterally on branches or opposite
the leaves. Sepals are shortly and obtusely eared. Flowers are pale blue with
rounded petals which are flat, with a point at the tip. Flower throat is hairy.
Clasping-Leaf Borage found in Mumbai and neighbouring area. This flowers is
closely similar to Indian Borage, but can be distinguished by two features -
one, leaves are stem-clasping, they are only half-clasping in Indian Borage;
two, the stamens do not protrude out, whereas in Indian Borage they protrude
out.
Pic 2009/ MH,GUJ border
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