Thanks Surajit ji for the key link.....Using this key, the plant appears to
be E. pubescens (Bracts densely pubescent).
Copying the key provided here by Rashida ji ( from Dr. Almeida's flora for
*Eranthemum
L.* Vol IV, A pg: 36) for easy reference, please validate
1.Flowers reddish
-pink---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------E.
cinnabarinum
1.Flowers
blue-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2
2. Bracts densely
pubescent-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------E.
pubescens
2. Bracts glabrous or faintly
hairy-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3
3.Bracts white with green veins, obovate, obtuse, with a short
reflexed mucro-------------------------------------------------------------4
4. Plants with many erect branches springing from a common
base------------------------------------------------------------E. wattii
4. Plants with single stem, branched above, not in
clumps------------------------------------------------------------------------------------5
5. Flowers 3-4 cm across
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E. roseum
5. Flowers upto 2.5 cm
across------------------------------------------------------------------------------------E.
roseum var. parviflorum
3.Bracts greeen, elliptic,
ovate,acuminate--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------6
6. Flowers in dense,usually
solitary,uninterrupted spikes;bracts exceeding 2 cm
long-------------------E. purpurascens
6. Flowers in interrupted usually paniculate spikes; bracts
less than 1 cm long---------------------------------------------------7
7. Leaves
elliptic-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E. fastigiatum
7.
Leaves
ovate----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------E.
pulchellum
Thanks and regards
Alka Khare
On Wednesday, April 1, 2015 at 9:24:28 PM UTC+5:30, surajitkoley wrote:
>
> I do not have any idea Alka Ji. Please check the KEY provided by Rashida
> Ji -
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/indiantreepix/uLP6eGpSb6o/1a-7NcVFsRUJ
> .
>
> Thank you
> Regards
> surajit
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 1:28 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected] <javascript:>>
> wrote:
>
>> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please.
>>
>> Some earlier relevant feedback:
>>
>> efi page on Eranthemum capense
>> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/a/acanthaceae/eranthemum/eranthemum-capense>
>>
>>
>>
>> Bracts and spike look very different in -
>>
>> -
>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/indiantreepix/6kMXUdZ3_WM/STChJUrMGOkJ
>> -
>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/indiantreepix/6U9CDJnDUKg/j_JpbU5fOQUJ
>>
>> Thank you
>> Regards
>> Surajit
>>
>> I agree Surajit ji, the bracts and spikes do look different....
>> I wonder then, what this could be...
>> Thanks and regards
>> Alka Khare
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Alka Khare <[email protected] <javascript:>>
>> Date: 23 March 2015 at 10:55
>> Subject: [efloraofindia:218832] Acanthaceae Fortnight :: ID Request -
>> Eranthemum :: Devgad :: ARKMAR-37/49
>> To: [email protected] <javascript:>
>>
>>
>> Hello friends
>>
>> Requesting to please provide ID of the plant captured at Devgad, Konkan
>> Maharashtra in May 2014.
>>
>> Was posted on the forum earlier here.
>>
>> Could this be E. capens var. concanense based on the key provided here
>> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/a/acanthaceae/eranthemum>
>>
>>
>> Thanks and regards
>> Alka Khare
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