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Family: Oleaceae
Common Name: मदनबाण, बटण मोगरा
Etymology - Genus: Latinized form of Persian name
Etymology - Species: *
Ecosystem: Evergreen
Origin: Native
Location: Garden plant
Description: This is a garden plant with spreading branches. Young branches are smooth, glabrous.White flowers are grouped into cymose inflorescence.White flowers blossom in the evening and fade by morning. Characteristic very pleasant fragrance.Free linear calyx. Petals fused into a narrow tube. Petal arrangement show variation, double whorled free petals (मदनबाण) or petals grouped in layers around the center (बटण मोगरा). Two stamens and stigma are completely covered in the petal tube. Style is very short.Fruits are rarely observed. Branch cutting generally survives.
Root type: Taproot-Woody hard
Stem Appearance: Straggler
Stem Cross Section: Circular
Stem Texture:
Root-Stem-Bark Description: This is a garden plant with spreading branches. Young branches are smooth, glabrous.
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Leaf - Characters
Attachment: Petiolate
Stipules: Exstipulate
Leaf Type: Simple
Phyllotaxy: Alternate-Spiral
Leaf Description:
Leaflet - Characters
Lamina: Elliptic
Lamina Bases:
Lamina Margins: Entire
Lamina Apices:
Lamina Texture: Glabrous
Venation: Reticulate-Unicostate
Leaflet Description:
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Inflorescence - Characters
Inflorescence: Cymose
Bract:
Inflorescence Description: White flowers are grouped into cymose inflorescence.
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Flower - Characters
Flower Type: Complete
Flower Symmetry: Actinomorphic
Thalamus Types:
Position of Whorls: Hypogynous
Aestivation:
Flower Description: White flowers blossom in the evening and fade by morning. Characteristic very pleasant fragrance.
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Floral Parts - Characters
Calyx Arrangement: Linear
Calyx Persistance:
Calyx Number of sepals:
Corolla Arrangement: Rotate
Corolla Appendages: na
Corolla Number of petals:
Perianth Arrangement: na
Perianth Number of tepals: na
Androecium Attachment of anther:
Androecium Length of filament: equal
Androecium Union of Stamens: Epipetalous
Androecium Number of Stamens:
Gynoecium Placentation:
Gynoecium Union of Carpels: Syncarpous
Gynoecium Number of Carpels:
Floral Parts Description: Free linear calyx. Petals fused into a narrow tube. Petal arrangement show variation, double whorled free petals (मदनबाण) or petals grouped in layers around the center (बटण मोगरा). Two stamens and stigma are completely covered in the petal tube. Style is very short.
Fruit type:
Fruit type Description: Fruits are rarely observed. Branch cutting generally survives.