Blepharis maderaspatensis

Blepharis maderaspatensis is a species of suffrutescent herb in the family Acanthaceae found in seasonally dry to arid habitats from Africa over Arabia to Southeast Asia.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Blepharis maderaspatensis
Blepharis maderaspatensis at Kambalakonda Wildlife Sanctuary
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Acanthaceae
Genus:	Blepharis
Species:	B. maderaspatensis
Binomial name
Blepharis maderaspatensis (L.) B.Heyne ex Roth, Nov. Pl. Sp. 320. (1821)
Synonyms
List Acanthodium procumbens Nees Acanthus ciliaris Burm. fil. Acanthus maderaspatensis L. Acanthus procumbens Herb. Madr. ex Wall. Blepharis abyssinica Hochst. ex A. Rich. Blepharis boerhaaviifolia Pers. Blepharis boerhaviifolia var. maderaspatensis (L.) Nees Blepharis breviciliata Fiori Blepharis maderaspatensis var. abyssinica Fiori Blepharis maderaspatensis subsp. rubiifolia (Schumach.) Napper Blepharis procumbens Heyne ex Roth Blepharis procurrens Nees Blepharis rubiifolia Schum. Blepharis teaguei Oberm. Blepharis togodelia Solms ex Schweinf.

Distribution

The species is native to continental Africa, Arabia and tropical parts of Asia: the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and Hainan in China.

Description

Maderaspatensis is described as being a  scrambling, suffrutescent perennial herb which can stem up to 2.5 m in height with whorled four hairy leaves that are elliptic of size  2–9(–12.5) × 0.8–3.5(–5) cm, at each node, with axillary spike inflorescence. and white flowers 1/2 inches long found in the clustered form .^[6]