Burmannia indica
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Burmannia indica is a non-leafless plant species fromthe Burmanniaceae family . It is native to Burma and parts of India (from Kerala to Travancore ).
description
Burmannia indica is an annual, leaf-green, continuously whitish, unbranched to occasionally branched herbaceous plant that reaches a height of 6 to 23 centimeters at flowering time. It is mycotrophic . There is no rhizome, the roots are fibrous and short. The leaves are 2.7 to 3.5 millimeters long, they are absent at the base and only appear sporadically on the stem, where they are scale-like, ovate-lanceolate, tightly fitting and tapering to a point.
The flowering and fruiting time is between September and December. The inflorescence consists of one to four flowers that smell sweet. The almost sessile flowers are 8.4 to 17 millimeters long and white in color. The flower tube is cylindrical and 3.5 to 9 millimeters in length, 1.2 to 4 millimeters wide wings are halved elliptical to halved inverted egg-shaped and extend from the center of the outer cloth flowers to below the insertion of the ovary . The outer lobes are obtuse-triangular with a thickened edge and 1.2 to 1.8 millimeters long, the inner pointed linear-lanceolate with a thickened edge and 0.6 to 1.1 millimeters long. The stamens are sessile and start in the pharynx, below the inner lobes. The connective has two short, lateral arms that carry the thecae and a blunt, downward-pointing spur at the base. The stylus is as long as the corolla tube and thread-shaped, at its end are the three almost sessile, trumpet-shaped scars .
The ovaries are elliptical to obovate and 3.5 to 5.5 millimeters long. The obovate capsule opens along transverse slits. The seeds are numerous and elliptical.
distribution
Burmannia indica is native to Burma and parts of India (from Kerala to Travancore ) at altitudes between 1600 and 2000 meters on a damp rocky bed in meadows.
Systematics
The species was first described in 1938 by Fredrik Pieter Jonker .