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Indoneesiella echioides (L.) Sreem.
An erect, annual herb, up to 60 cm tall.
Common Name : False waterwillow
Family : Acanthaceae
Grooved, quadrangular, clothed with spreading
hairs.
3.2-7.5 cm long and 1-2.5 cm wide, oblong or
sub-elliptic, obtuse, sparsely hairy, ciliate
along margins, base cuneate.
Numerous, with a pink or white corolla with
dark purple blotches on the lower lip, densely
pubescent outside, borne along the upper side
of a slender, glandular-hairy rachis, in axillary
racemes.
Capsules 1-1.3 cm long and half as broad,
compressed, acute at both ends, hairy.
Oblong, up to 2.5 mm long, not compressed,
pitted, glabrous.
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