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Scientific name: Monochoria hastifolia

These are aquatic perennial plants growing from 30 to 60 cm. Stems are long and robust. Radical leaves with sheath broadened at base, leaf blade triangular or triangular-ovate. Small blue flowers are at the tip of flowering stems, which are erect. Inflorescences erect or suberect, remaining so after anthesis, subumbellate to shortly racemose. I took this while i was in my native place on 23rd December 2011, from a damp pit, where clear water was seeping and overflowing the ditch in my own piece of land where coconut are planted. This plant is extensively used in Ayurvedic medicinal preparations and has found a significant place in the poetic imaginations.