Mysore Barleria is a shrub with branchlets silky
velvet-hairy, becoming spiny. In appearance it looks similar to
Box-Leaved Barleria, but can be
distinguished from the fact that it is glandular-hairy. Flowers are
borne singly in leaf-axils, nearly stalkless, purplish-blue. Outer two
sepals are 1.2 x 0.8 cm, ovate, silky velvet-hairy, inner 0.5 cm,
lanceshaped. Flower tube is up to 2 cm, petals 1 cm, obovate; filaments
1 cm; ovary ovoid, pointed at tip. Leaves are up to 2.5 x 1.8 cm,
obovate-elliptic, tip blunt, with a fine point, base wedge-shaped,
about 5 nerved; leaf-stalk 0.5 cm. Mysore Barleria is found in South
India and Sri Lanka. Flowering: November-April.
Identification credit: P.S. Sivaprasad
Photographed in Coimbatore area, Tamil Nadu.
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