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Habit :<br />

Stem :<br />

Leaves :<br />

Flowers :<br />

Fruits :<br />

Seeds :<br />

Trichodesma zeylanicum (Burm f.) R. Br.<br />

Common Name : Camel bush<br />

<strong>Family</strong> : Boraginaceae<br />

Densely bristly-hairy annual or perennial herb<br />

or shrub .<br />

1m high, smooth to hispid; taproot welldeveloped.<br />

Stem and twigs clothed in white<br />

scabrous hairs.<br />

Basal leaves opposite, becoming alternate up<br />

stem; lamina linear-oblong to narrow-ovate,<br />

3.5–10.5 cm long, 7–20 mm wide, apex acute,<br />

surfaces hispid.<br />

15–20 mm diameter, blue, rarely white.<br />

The fruit is ellipsoid, and is enclosed by the<br />

calyx. Calyx lobes ovate or rounded at the base.<br />

Nutlets 4; 4-5 mm long, outer surface smooth<br />

and mottled, inner surface wrinkled, grey,<br />

dotted, brown on dorsal surface.<br />

<strong>Weed</strong> ID Manual 319

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