Photographed from Vikas Puri, Delhi. Was growing outside a private house so could net dig out for possible tuberous roots. Bracts and bracteoles are definitely shorter than calyx lobes, flowers 5-6 cm long blue-mauve; plants hardly 50 cm tall, leaves 5-8 cm long, long hairy especially on petiole and young shoots, margin somewhat undulate with prominent veins. The plant resembles one depicted as Ruellia nudiflora at Flowers of India website. Please help in ID.
<https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-HcKPqp3ChVY/T3fhh9mlIHI/AAAAAAAAAk8/KlQQXP_rgxU/s1600/Ruellia-nudiflora-tuberosa-Vikas+puri-IMG_0081-Delhi-1.jpg> Ruellia-nudiflora-tuberosa-Vikas puri-IMG_0081-Delhi-1 <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-oi8mcr9Hkw8/T3fhw1iMsyI/AAAAAAAAAlI/H6IDTcgyM4o/s1600/Ruellia-nudiflora-tuberosa-Vikas+puri-IMG_0087-Delhi-2.jpg> Ruellia-nudiflora-tuberosa-Vikas puri-IMG_0087-Delhi-2 <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-EKjcl6hpXcs/T3fiKb-L-8I/AAAAAAAAAlU/5K42pi_RlZk/s1600/Ruellia-nudiflora-tuberosa-Vikas+puri-IMG_0084-Delhi-3.jpg> Ruellia-nudiflora-tuberosa-Vikas puri-IMG_0084-Delhi-3 <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-H8eKt51QS_g/T3fiamAC0fI/AAAAAAAAAlg/9sOnM91yvmM/s1600/Ruellia-nudiflora-tuberosa-Vikas+puri-IMG_0091-Delhi-4.jpg> Ruellia-nudiflora-tuberosa-Vikas puri-IMG_0091-Delhi-4 Gurcharan Singh -- 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.
