Local Name: Botanical Name: Family: Found in Zone No.
หญ้าหัวรากน้อย Cyanotis cristata (L.) D. Don COMMELINACEAE 6
Descriptions : Herb Ascendent herb, with fleshy stems; longitudinal line of hairs along stems and peduncles; leaves narrow, tapering, acute, clasping stem (fused around stem); long peduncle below flower-bearing part; flower-bearing part subtended by single narrowly ovate bract with acute apex (longer than semilunar bracts); 2 rows of semilunar bracts on either side flowers; flowers biseriate, alternating, sessile; sepals 3 green translucent sepals, hairy on outside; corolla connate into a tube with 3 indigo petals; stamens 6, all fertile; filaments swollen subapically; upper half of filaments with long, indigo moniliform hairs; ovary 3-angled, 3-lobed, with apical hairs; style filiform, with some indigo moniliform hairs below stigma; stigma fusiform; fruit a 3-lobed, thin-walled, loculicidally dehiscent capsule; (1)2 superposed, glabrous brown seeds per locule.
