Creeping Dentella
Dentella repens
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Kerala, West Bengal, Maharashtra & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Creeping Dentella
Identify Creeping Dentella by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a herb habit.
- Confirm leaf arrangement: Opposite.
- Confirm leaf surface: Glabrous (smooth, hairless).
- Confirm flower colour: White.
- Confirm flower arrangement: Solitary.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Kerala, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Assam and nearby regions.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Dentella repens
- Genus
- Dentella
- Family
- Rubiaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- In low-lying areas, river banks and drying bed of tanks in clayey soil
- Habitat type
- Wetland
- Native to
- South and Southeast Asia, Australia
- Distribution
- India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Northern Australia, Polynesia
- Found in India
- Kerala, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Assam, Karnataka, Odisha, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Arunachal Pradesh, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Least Concern (LC)
Leaf characters
- Leaf arrangement
- OppositerecordedTwo leaves arise from the stem at the same point, facing each other.“It has dichotomous branches that root at the nodes, opposite subsessile leaves, and interpetiolar stipules.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf surface
- Glabrous (smooth, hairless)recorded
Typical of the family
Characters marked “recorded” are for Creeping Dentella itself; the rest are typical of the Rubiaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Whiterecorded
- Flower arrangement
- SolitaryrecordedA single flower borne alone, not in a cluster.“The small white funnel-shaped flowers are solitary, axillary, and often borne in V-shaped forks of branches, with a hairy calyx and a two-celled ovary.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Berry
Characters marked “recorded” are for Creeping Dentella itself; the rest are typical of the Rubiaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Creeping Dentella
Creeping Dentella (Dentella repens) is a herb in the Rubiaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Kerala, West Bengal, Maharashtra and 9 other states. It grows in in low-lying areas, river banks and drying bed of tanks in clayey soil. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Rubiaceae
Coffee/Madder family
Creeping Dentella belongs to the Rubiaceae family.
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