Adelocaryum nebulicola R.R.Mill

Stout-stemmed , erect perennial or biennial herb ; 1–1 . 5 m tall . Stems 5–10 mm thick or more , hollow , glabrous in lower part , appressed crispate-pubescent above and moredensely so in inflorescence . Leaves Radical leaves very long-petiolate ; petiole to at least 30 cm , channelled , sparsely pubescent ; lamina broadly ovate-cordate , 11–25 x 11–30 cm , the apex acute or shortly acuminate , the base shallowly cordate or cordate-truncate , entire or the margin occasionally appearing 3-lobed , the upper surface deep green with scattered short ± antrorse setules arising from large many-celled calcifying bases , the lower surface much paler green and totally glabrous except for rather dense antrorsely appressed non-setiform hairs on veins and margin ; lower cauline leaves similar to radical but more shortly petiolate , middle and upper ones elliptic , 3–22 x 0 . 8–12 cm , the apex acute , the base cuneate , subsessile or sessile ; indumentum as radical ; veins c . 6 each side of midrib . Inflorescences a panicle of furcate or ... simple terminal scorpioid cymes , the primary dichotomies often then simple but sometimes with secondary and occasionally tertiary bifurcations ; Pedicels not more than 1 . 5–2 mm in flower , 2–4 . 5 mm in fruit , erecto-patent butfinally becoming hamately curved downwards in fruit . Flowers all ebracteate ; calyx lobed almost to base ; lobes rather broadly elliptic or elliptic-obovate , 2 . 5–4 x 1 . 5–2 . 5 mm in flower , 4 . 5–6 x 2 . 5–4 mm in fruit , with a thin line of short appressed hairsalong the midvein and around the margin , the rest of the calyx lobe glabrous or withvery few scattered hairs . Corolla white with blue or pinkish-blue centre , subrotate or shortly campanulate , 7–9 . 5 mm in diameter , the corolla lobes suborbicular-ovate , 3 . 5–4 x 3 . 5–4 mm , each (when dry) with a narrow blue mid vein ; anthers c . 0 . 8 mm , ellipsoid . Fruit nutlets , 4 , greenish becoming olive-brown , ovate-napiform , 4 . 5–633–4 mm . (Ref . Mill ; 2010) .

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Endemic (EN) - Vulnerable (VU B1b(ii , iii)) - Global Assessment

Rare

Cynoglossum nebulicola (R.R.Mill) Greuter & Stier