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Cyanotis barbata D.Don
Synonym: Cyanotis vaga (Lour.) Schult. & Schult.f.
Wandering Dew Grass

Wandering Dew Grass - <i>Cyanotis barbata</i> D.Don
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Ravi Vaidyanathan

Name

Cyanotis barbata D.Don
Wandering Dew Grass

Group

Place

Trek to Rajmachi Village, Rajmachi, Maharashtra 410405, India

Observed on

23 September 2011

Created on

19 August 2013

Notes

Common name: Wandering Dew-Grass 
Botanical name:  Cyanotis vaga    Family: Commelinaceae (Dayflower family)
Synonyms: Cyanotis barbata, Commelina hirsuta, Tonningia barbata

Wandering Dew-Grass is a slender sparsely-branched plant, with narrow-lanceshaped leaves often with long woolly hairs on the sheaths. Flowers are small dark-blue, subtended by by long straight or curved bracts. Flowers are about 1 cm across, in clusters in leaf axils or at branch ends. Stamen filaments have long white or blue hairs. Bracts are hairy with with enlarged rounded bases. Leaves are 3-7.5 cm long, variably hairy. Stem is usually 8-30 cm long, often tufted and rooting at the nodes. Wandering Dew-Grass is found in the Himalayas, from Pakistan to SW China and Burma, at altitudes of 800-2700 m. Flowering: July-September.
 
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🆔 Identification

Cyanotis barbata D.Don

Wandering Dew Grass

💎 Traits
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🏜 Location Information

Coordinates

18.8871, 73.4335

Tehsil

Karjat

Soil

Red Sandy Soils

Temperature

23 - 25.0 °C

Rainfall

2000 - 2400 mm

Forest Type

Tropical semi evergreen forest
📊 Temporal Distribution
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