As per KEy in FoC and eFI this should be *Osbeckia*, *O. stellata* has caducous calyx lobes, flowers there are 4-merous. Calyx doesn't look like *O. nepalensis*. Naked calyx tube with recurved lobes, capitate inflorescence suggest *O. chinensis*? Please upload details.
You may also browse a blog from Srilanka http://lankanaturesummary.blogspot.in/search/label/Melastomataceae Thank you Regards On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 6:10 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. > > Some earlier relevant feedback: > It looks like Melastoma malabathricum > Pudji Widodo > > efi page on Melastoma malabathricum > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m---z/m/melastomataceae/melastoma/melastoma-malabathricum> > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: siva siva <[email protected]> > Date: 16 November 2014 16:45 > Subject: [efloraofindia:206328] HAL 7 16/11/14 > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > > Please ID this ornamental plant with pink flowers. Photo was taken in Sri > Lanka in Mar 2013 > > Regards > > Siva > > -- > 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. > > > > -- > 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). You can also use them for free as > per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the > world- more than 2400 members & 2,00,000 messages on 9.9.14) or Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 10,000 species & 2,00,000 images). Winner of > Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. > > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > -- 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.
