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Ornamental- It is grown ornamentally for its interesting pointed leaves and its large and showy yellow flowers. Medicine- The root juice is used in the treatment of fevers.
Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan
Temperate biome, at altitude of 1500-3600m.
Pernnial shrubs 0.3- 1.8 m tall.
Stems are arching, frondose; branches 4-lined or 4-angled at first, eventually round.
Leaves are nearly stalkless, blade 1.4-4 cm long, 4-24 mm broad, lanceshaped to ovate, tip pointed to rounded-apiculate, base narrowly or rarely broadly wedge-shaped, venation laxly netveined blunt.
Flowers are borne in 1-3-flowered cymes, at branch ends and often also lateral.
Dry capsules that split open when mature, releasing seeds.
Flowering: April- September.