Common names (English):

Creeping Burhead,

Creeping Water-plantain

Local name (Kannada):

Habit: Herb

Distribution:

Native of Tropical America.

Use: Ornamental

Description:

Rhizomatous perennial herbs, to 1 m high. Leaves erect, ovate to elliptic, truncate to cordate at base. Racemes 3-9 in whorls, each 3-10-flowered. Flowers white. Sepals three. Petals obovate-orbicular. Stamens ca. 20, yellow. Carpels many, apocarpus.

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