A reply:
"It looks like Aechmathera gosypina to me.
Krishan Lal"
On 30 August 2014 05:57, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Feedback as per another thread
> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/indiantreepix/u5wlyoPQgkQ>:
> My earlier upload as Aechmanthera may be Strobilanthes, perhaps S.
> glutinosus because of petioled leaves, foliaceous looking persistent bracts
> although calyx is not glandular pubescent. Pl. suggest ID.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>
> Date: 22 September 2011 23:00
> Subject: [efloraofindia:82929] Aechmanthera gossypina from Chakrata
> Mussoorie Road pl. validate
> To: efloraofindia <[email protected]>, Flowers of India <
> [email protected]>
>
>
> Aechmanthera gossypina (Wall. ex Nees) Nees, Pl. As. Rar. 3: 87, 1832
> Syn: *Ruellia tomentosa* Wall.; *Ruellia gossypina* Nees; *Aechmanthera
> tomentosa* Nees
>
> Small shrubby plant to 130 cm tall, covered with white felt; leaves
> elliptic, toothed, white-tomentose beneath; flowers purplish to blue, 2-2.5
> cm long, in elongated clusters forming lax leafy spike; calyx lobes linear,
> densely glandulary-hairy, corolla funnel-shaped, shallowly 5-lobed.
>
> Photographed along roadsides on Mussoorie-Chakrata Road on September 16,
> 2011
>
> Please validate the identification. Here are some links
>
>
> http://planttaxonomy.blogspot.com/2008/03/aechmanthera-gossypina-wall-nees.html
>
>
> http://www.iiim.res.in/herbarium/acanthaceae/images/aechmanthera_gossypina.jpg
>
>
> http://www.springerimages.com/Images/LifeSciences/1-10.1007_s12225-009-9098-2-10
>
>
>
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