EUPLOCA
Euploca
Nutt., Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n.s.5: 189. 1835
170 species
Euploca strigosa
Euploca strigosa
(Willd.) Diane & Hilger, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 125: 49. 2003; Heliotropium strigosum Willd., Sp. Pl., ed. 4. 1:743. 1798; DC., Prodr. 9: 546. 1845; Boiss., Fl. Or. 4: 143. 1875; Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 4: 151. 1885; Collett, Fl. Siml. ed. 2: 330 1921 (Reprint 1980); Sharma & Kachroo, Fl. Jammu (Illustr.) 2: t.178. 1983; Singh & Sharma, Fl. Chamba Dist. 477. 2006; Fl. China @eFloras.org 16: 339; Nasir, Fl. Pak. @eFloras.org p.25.
Small perennial herb, appresedly white-strigose. Stems numerous, slender, prostrate or ascending, spreading, much branched. Leaves crowded, alternate, simple, 5-15 mm x 1-2 mm, subsessile; leaf blade linear-lanceolate, acute, entire with revolute margin, midvein prominent adaxially, lateral veins not conspicuous, appressed strigose with short hairs. Stipules absent. Inflorescence terminal bracteate scorpoid cymes, 2-6 cm long. Bracts 1-2.5 mm long, foliaceous. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, 5-merous, hypogynous, 3-3.5 mm across, funnelform, white with yellow centre, sessile, lower flowers often shortly stalked; pedicels 2 mm long. Calyx ca. 2.5 mm long, 5-partite, lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute, strigose. Corolla-tube cylindric, about twice as long as calyx, mouth naked; lobes 5, spreading, ovate-triangular, strigose outside. Stamens 5, included; inserted in corolla tube near to base. Ovary ovoid, 4 locular, 1 ovule per loculus; style terminal, short; stigma conical.; Fruit of 4, more or less united, 1-seeded, ovoid nutlets, 1.6-1.8 mm across.
Common Names: Bristly Heliotrope; Chitiphul, Chitiphal, Safed Bhangra (Hindi)
