Thank you very very much Santhosh ji for the ID. I had thought of *S. violacea*, but was not at all confident - too many different photos are floating on the internet! Regards. Dinesh
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Dr Santhosh Kumar <[email protected] > wrote: > Scutellaria violacea > > SANTHOSH > ------------------------------------------ > *Dr. E.S. Santhosh Kumar *MSc, PhD, FIAT,FABSc, FLS > Head, Estates Department > Electro Saudi Services Ltd > Riyadh, KSA > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > (on leave ) > Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Palode > Thiruvananthapuram-695562 > Kerala > India > www.drsanthosh.wikifoundry.com <http://www.drsanthosh.wetpaint.com> > > NB: Please consider your environmental responsibility! Ask yourself before > printing this email !!! > > > On 29 July 2014 09:18, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> [image: ... a view from Chinnakanal, Munnar] >> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F14709900153&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzeqxhhDAA48uYnOXorPQA7mfvjfmA> >> Munnar >> *Date*: June 3 - 6, 2014 ... *Elevation*: around 1600m asl >> ------------------------------ >> *Scutellaria *¿ species ? >> Dear friends, please help with ID. >> >> V C Balakrishnan ji at facebook helped with suggesting the genus >> *Scutellaria* >> This plant is a small herb found growing under cover of cardamom plants; >> just about a foot high, sometimes growing a tall panicle as shown in >> pictures below. >> The flowers measure about max 10mm across. >> >> This place is Gudampara near Chinnakanal, Munnar, elevation about 1500m >> asl. >> [image: Scutellaria ¿ species ?] >> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F14393531239&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzfmxJIVqzIfLJrQO1em4FH91CqulA> >> >> >> [image: Scutellaria ¿ species ?] >> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F14393513828&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzeMyD8M3UKXjF0ZiUM8EREl04tkqg> >> >> >> [image: Scutellaria ¿ species ?] >> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F14580143485&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzedmmb2SSPtp7zAzDdDit88-7Zvww> >> >> >> ... the towering panicle, seen in some of the plants >> >> [image: Scutellaria ¿ species ?] >> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F14557081276&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzdW2cF-_l5QMtS1_GzJmMxv9XmEbA> >> >> >> >> Habitat ... hoping to show the plant in scale to other plants around it >> >> [image: Scutellaria ¿ species ?] >> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F14576912901&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzdW5oGpaoSyhhJeWeg53apMhQ8e-A> >> Regards. >> Dinesh >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "efloraofindia" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
