Manipur Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Manipur (India)
Designed & Developed by Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Verbenaceae | Genus: Duranta | Species: Duranta erecta L. |
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| Synonym | Duranta repens L., Duranta angustifolia Salisb. | Flower Color | Blue - Purple |
| Common Name | Golden Dewdrop, Sky-Flower, Pigeonberry | Flower Type | Raceme |
| English / Trade Name | Sky Flower | Flowering Period | July-Sept |
| Vernacular /Local Name | Samba Hei | Fruiting Period | Oct-Dec |
| Altitude | 1000-1500 m | Fruit Type | Berry |
| Habit | Shrub | Fruit Details | The fruit is a Small globose yellow or orange up to 11 mm diameter and containing several seeds |
| Habitat | Occurs widely in boundaries and also cultivated as an ornamental plant | Bark Type | Rugged |
| Distribution | India, Bhutan, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Europe | Bark Details | The bark is light gray becoming rough |
| Distribution in manipur | Origin | Exotic | |
| Leaf Type | Simple | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Opposite (leaves in pairs along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Elliptic | ||
| Description of Species | Shrub erect or scandent 5-15 ft. Bark dark brown. Branchlets obtusely 4 angular, lenticellate, usually armed with spines. Leaves opposite, ovate-elliptic, obovate-oblong, lanceolate or ovate, 2-6 x 1.5-3 cm across, base cuneate to acute, margin entire to dentate-serrate, apex acute to acuminate, chartaeous, green colored and sometimes with yellow and white patches near the margins, lateral veins 4-6 on either side of the midvein, veinlets reticulate, Petiole 0.5-1 cm long. Inflorescence racemose panicles, axillary, terminal and on branchlets 5-25 cm long, Bracts linear or subulate, 1-2 mm long, pubescent. Flowers zygomorphic, slender, pedicellate about 1-4 mm long, Calyx tubular or subhypocrateriform 5 toothed with acute teeth, sparsely pubescent and light green colored. Corolla hypocrateriform, unequal 5 lobed, blue, purple and yellowish purple, apex truncate, Corolla tube sparsely hairy on the throat, lateral lobes straight or curved, Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted in the corolla tube, filaments filiform, 2-2.5 mm long, hairy, green colored, anthers creamish, oblong, Ovary globose about 1 mm long, style slender about half the length of the corolla tube, glabrous, Stigma capitates, shortly 4 lobed. Fruit drupe globose about 0.75-1 cm in diameter, shining yellow | Leaf Details | The leaves up to 7.5 cm long and 3.5 cm broad with c 1.5 cm petiole |
