Assuming my post *Ruellia tuberosa* L. <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/indiantreepix/96UvTLMoWjg/dtBAp5_uCk4J>, which grows wild and common in Hooghly, is correctly identified as per http://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/03030800-0b07-490a-8d04-0605030c0f01/media/Html/Ruellia_tuberosa.htm what I find the differences between the *R. tuberosa* L. and *R. nudiflora* (Engelm. & A. Gray)Urb. are -
(i) the capsules of *R. tuberosa* are more linear, narrower, longer (ii) the sepals extend significantly above the narrower portion of the corolla tube For the above comparison I have checked my thread and several herbarium of *R. nudiflora* in KEW and http://w3.biosci.utexas.edu/prc/specimens/Acanthaceae.html My account is that this species in this thread is not *R. tuberosa* L. Thank you Regards surajit On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 11:16 AM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. > > Some earlier relevant feedback: > > efi pages on Ruellia nudiflora (Cultivated) > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/a/acanthaceae/ruellia/ruellia-nudiflora> > & Ruellia tuberosa (Cultivated) > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/a/acanthaceae/ruellia/ruellia-tuberosa> > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> > Date: 22 March 2015 at 15:19 > Subject: [efloraofindia:218692] Acanthaceae Fortnight: Ruellia nudiflora > or Ruellia tuberosa, please help in ID-GSMAR25/26 > To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> > > > 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 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.
