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| pale blue flower | pale purple flower | white flower |
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| many white hairs on a bract |
A bract forms funnelform. One side of a bract is removed at orange part. a small erect pedicel and two young fruits on a lateral pedicel. |
a magnified small erect pedicel. |
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pedicel
The lateral pedicel has a bud and a young fruit . After flowering it bends to opposite side of buds. |
Leaf sheath has ear like part. Scientific name of this species auriculata comes from this.
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matured fruits in a bract.
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A matured fruit has two rooms.
It has totally 3 seeds in a fruit. two of them in a room and another one enclosed in a another room |
seed that has a papillate structure on it
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