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Hugonia mystax

හුගොනි මිස්ට්ක්සා மோதிரகண்ணி

Hugonia mystax

Hugonia mystax
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Overview

Hugonia mystax is a species of plant in the family Linaceae found mainly in the dry forests of peninsular India and Sri Lanka. It is a scandent shrub, sometimes growing liana-like over other trees and bears yellow flowers and orange to red fruits in the rainy season. The branchlets are leafless at the base and instead have a pair of recurved spines which bear a resemblance to a moustache, giving rise to the epithet mystax, Latin for moustache.

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  1. Wikipedia (EN): Hugonia mystax — CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Wikipedia (TA): மோதிரகண்ணி — CC BY-SA 4.0