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[[File:Exacum bicolor 01.jpg|thumb|right|''Akshipushpi'', ''Exacum bicolor'']]
'''Akshipushpi''' is a tall herb that occurs in grassy meadows and hillsides of the western ghats. The striking violet-white blooms appear at the end of the rainy season. It is in the Gentian family.
==Uses==
{{Uses|Inflammation}}, {{Uses|Inflammation}}, {{Uses|Burning sensation}}, {{Uses|fever}}, {{Uses|Hemorrhage}}
==Common names==
{{Common names|kn=dodda Dodda chirayutha|ml=Kannamthali|sa=Akshipushpi|ta=|te=|hi=baraBara-charayatah|en=Bicolor Persian violet}}
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===Flower===
{{Flower|Bisexual|Terminal cymes|Blue-white-violet|4|Cymes terminal, in many flowered corymbs; bracts 7 mm long, linear. Calyx 9 mm long, 4- lobed, lobes ovate, abruptly cuspidate with a cuspidate 2 mm broad wings. Corolla blue or white with blue shades, tube short, lobes 4, to 20 x 8 mm, elliptic, acute. Stamens 4, anthers 8 mm long, slightly curved, eglandular, filaments broaden at base. Ovary 2-celled, ovules many; stigma subcapitate.}}
===Fruit===
