Dear all, I am taking this post again for Acanthaceae fortnight. I have seen this plant growing gregariously in various landscapes that are quite wet. Last week I found the same plant in Tirunelveli hills, which I am posting in a separate thread.
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:03 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. > > Some earlier relevant feedback: > > Seems to be member of Strobilanthes > > -- > Dr. C.Kunhikannan > > > > > > > > > > > > if it is very thick brownish- white pubescent on back side of leaf, then > check it for Strobilanthes lawsoni. -- > Dr. C.Kunhikannan > > Thank you Kunhikannan ji, the underside of the leaf is silvery- glaucous > and not brownish. > > Can this be *Strobilanthus cuspidata*? -- > Muthu Karthick, N > Very interesting plant. > Pls give some more details such as plant height and leaf size. > I could not find the "front view" of a flower; It is "two lipped" but was > it having flaring limbs and the limb tips lobed : 2-lobes on top, 3-lobes > below ? > The best refs I found are : Oxford herbaria-Mark Carrine > <http://herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk/bol/content/Projects/oxford/ops/ops5.pdf> > and > N,Sasidharan-Kerala Plarts <http://www.keralaplants.in/index.html> > It could be *Stenosiphonium cordifolium *(Vahl) Alston, which is > described as distributed in Pen. India and Sri Lanka. and this genus seems > to be not fully researched and rare. > So it is definitely worth seeking again. > regards > A.Sinha > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Muthu Karthick <[email protected]> > Date: 3 January 2015 at 13:27 > Subject: [efloraofindia:211844] Acanthaceae for identification :: 030115 > :: MK005 > To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> > > > Dear all, > > Please help me in identifying this Acanthaceae shrub. Is this any > *Stenosiphonium*? > > Habitat: evergreen forest edge; roadside > Habit: gregarious shrub of 1-2 m high > > Date: 14 Nov 2014 > Alt.: 1800 m asl > Place: Kodaikanal, TN > > -- > Muthu Karthick, N > Care Earth Trust > # 3, Sixth Street, > Thillaiganga Nagar, > Chennai - 600 061 > Mob: 0091 96268 33911 > > -- > 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.
