Garg Sir, I find our eFI database of *Rungia* is of very little use and very confusing, it doesn't help at all.
Anurag Ji, I copy what Haines, in his book BoBO, recorded about *Rungia parviflora* Nees - "common weed... erect in grassy places ..... prostrate in pastures ... all specimens from our area appear to belong to the variety *pectinata* ....." Sir Prain thinks we have (1) *Rungia parviflora* Nees var. *pectinata* and (2) *Rungia repens* Nees, in our region of Bengal. I haven't found *R. repens* yet, where flowers are 0.3 inch (7.5 mm). Flowers of *R. parviflora* are under 0.15 inch long. Leaves of *R. parviflora* can be linear to lanceolate to elliptic. Your species is *Rungia parviflora* surely. But which var.? I think it is not the type species (barren bracts are not cuspidate in type species). So, we are left with var. *pectinata* and var. *muralis*. In *muralis* both sterile and fertile bracts are of same size. I think your species is *Rungia parviflora* var. *pectinata*, the current accepted name of which is *Rungia pectinata* (L.) Nees. Thank you Regards surajit On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 1:28 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding again for Id assistance please. > > Some earlier relevant feedback: > > Rungia > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/a/acanthaceae/rungia> > - species in eFIoraofindia (with details/ keys from published papers/ > regional floras/ FRLHT/ FOI/ efloras/ books etc., where ever available) > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Anurag Sharma <[email protected]> > Date: 9 February 2015 at 22:38 > Subject: [efloraofindia:215208] ANFEB27 Please identify this Rungia sp. > To: [email protected] > > > Family: Acanthaceae > Date: December 25th 2014 > Place: Agumbe, Karnataka > Habit: Herb > > -- > 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 an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
