Long-Style Hedyotis
Knoxia wightiana
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh
- Flowering
- May-January
How to identify Long-Style Hedyotis
Identify Long-Style Hedyotis 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 surface: Pubescent (softly hairy).
- Confirm flower colour: Purple.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: May-January.
- In India, compare location records such as Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh.
- Confirm it sits within the Rubiaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Long-Style Hedyotis.
Plant Details
Leaf characters
- Leaf surface
- Pubescent (softly hairy)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Opposite
Characters marked “recorded” are for Long-Style Hedyotis itself; the rest are typical of the Rubiaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- PurplerecordedPurple or violet
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Berry
Characters marked “recorded” are for Long-Style Hedyotis itself; the rest are typical of the Rubiaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Long-Style Hedyotis
Long-Style Hedyotis (Knoxia wightiana) belongs to the Rubiaceae family, where it grows as a herb. In India it has been recorded in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. It grows in grasslands. Flowering and fruiting run from May to January.
Rubiaceae
Coffee/Madder family
Long-Style Hedyotis belongs to the Rubiaceae family.
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