Dear members This plant was identifies as Aechmanthera gossypina now named as Strobilanthes tomentosa. In his personal communication he considered it as variation of this species. The other plant which I thought actual Aechmanthera gossypina was also confirmed by Dr. Wood as S. tomentosa
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/indiantreepix/Aechmanthera$20gossypina$20from$20Chakrata$20Mussoorie$20Road$20pl.$20validate/indiantreepix/u5wlyoPQgkQ/b3U7awv-DDgJ . To me both plants look very different. If this is correctly identified we need to have relook at other one. Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 7:56 AM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Dr. Wood. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: John Wood > Date: 6 September 2014 19:44 > Subject: RE: [efloraofindia:82929] Aechmanthera gossypina from Chakrata > Mussoorie Road pl. validate > To: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]> > > > I believe this is Strobilanthes tomentosa (Nees) J.R.I.Wood which is the > correct name for Aechmanthea gossypina. > > Regards > > John wood > > ------------------------------ > Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 14:01:28 +0530 > Subject: Fwd: [efloraofindia:82929] Aechmanthera gossypina from Chakrata > Mussoorie Road pl. validate > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected] > > Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. > > Some earlier relevant feedback: > Feedback as per another thread > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/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. - from Singh > ji. > It looks like Aechmathera gosypina to me. > Krishan Lal > > > > > > > ---------- 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 > > > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> > The whole world uses my Image Resource > <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a > thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. > (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). 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