Commelina communis
Commelina communis
Mahmuza
Perennial herb; stems procumbent to ascending, to 50 cm, ridged, glabrous or minutely pubescent at nodes. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 5-7 x 2-3 cm, acute, ,glabrous, sheath margin ciliolulate. Bract keeled, minutely serrulate on a glabrous or puberulous peduncle. Sepals ovate, hyaline-membranous, 2 partly fused. Lateral petals sub-orbicular, bright blue; third petal much smaller, ovate-lanceolate, white. Filaments slender, sterile anthers cruciform, bright yellow. Ovary with few seeds, one loculus usually sterile; style simple; stigma capitate. Seeds rugose. Fl 8-9. Shady banks, by streams, in and at edge of tea plantations, naturalised, 100-1650 m.
Native to temperate Asia ; introduced to America, naturalised in S. & C. Europe.
