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Clerodendron inerme
(L) Gaertn.
Much branched strugling shrub, upto 3.0 m and and terminal branches very often twining slender, twigy, dark green and form dense bush on the river banks and river slopes Leaf simple, opposite decussate, cauline, exstipulate, petiolate, petiole 0.6 cm - 1.0 cm long, terete, glabrous, solid, soft, brownish green, pulvinous Lamina ovate, elliptic, entire, acute, angled, dorsiventral, green, fibrous, herbaceous Inflorescence cyme, axillary pedunculate Flowers ebracteate, pedicellate, complete, bisexual, zygomorphic, erect Sepals 5, gamosepalous, 5 short lobes above, 0.15 cm long, entire, beneath cup shaped tube, green, glabrous, thin, persistent, valvate Petals 5, gamopetalous, 5 petal lobes above, equal length, imbricate, elliptic, entire, acute, herbaceous, white, glabrous Stamens 4, epipetalous, anthers remain free, filament long, white, soft, terete, glabrous, exerted, extrose, dorsiventral, anthe bilobed Carpels 2, syncarpous, ovary 0.2 cm log, cylindrical, glabrous, greenish, one chambered, single, ovate, basal placentation Style 1, terminal, long 4.5 cm, terete, soft, glabrous, white, stigma 2, bifid. Fruit pyriform drupe, woody
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