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| Vernacular name | Ban long | |
| Scientific name | Ludwigia octovalvis | |
| Family | ||
| Season | Kharif | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | An erect, stout, well-branched, robust herb of damp or flooded areas upto 2 m tall, annual or perennial, with long stiff hairs sometimes appressed and oriented in one direction. Stems - red-brown. | |
| Leaves | Leaves alternate, light green, may turn red upon aging, narrowly lanceolate to ovate, up to 15 cm long, 4-40 mm wide, densely velvety on both sides. | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | Flowers solitary in axils of leaves and at terminals. Four pale to bright yellow flowers, 1-2 cm long and 4-17 mm wide, broadly ovate and may be notched at apex. | |
| Fruit/ seed | Fruit is a thin-walled, 4-angled, narrowly cylindrical, 8-ribbed capsule, 3-5 cm long, 2-8 mm in diameter. | |
| Habitat and distribution | Moist placesponds banks | |
| Flowering and fruiting | August-February | |
| Associated with | Rice crops | |
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