Thank you very much Sir, this is the most likely id of this strange species. I face two problems though -
- I couldn't find an open flower unlike other threads of this species - Number of flowers in a whorl doesn't tally with lit. I have with me or with info found in the net. There are as many as 6-8 flowers in each distal whorl and 18 flowers in each proximal whorl It appears to me that this species is a combination of *S. scabra* and *S. hispida* of Flora Indica! TPL thinks *S. scabra* is synonymous with *S. articularis* L.f.; but this species neither tally with the description of FoC nor with Flora Indica. Finally, even the paper, "Taxonomic and Nomenclatural Notes on the Spermacoce hispida-articularis Complex and S. stricta-pusilla Complex (Rubiaceae) / V. V. Sivarajan and R. Vasudevan Nair" doesn't help! Thank you Regards surajit koley a *non-botanist* member of efloraofIndia google group On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 7:42 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Mahadeswara ji. > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: M Swamy <[email protected]> > Date: 3 June 2015 at 19:34 > Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:224940] Hooghly-skMAY23/24 Spermacoce hispida > L.??? > To: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]> > > > For me the ID is correct. > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 5:42 AM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. >> >> Some earlier relevant feedback: >> >> efi page on Spermacoce hispida >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m---z/r/rubiaceae/spermacoce/spermacoce-hispida> >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: surajit koley <[email protected]> >> Date: 27 May 2015 at 08:08 >> Subject: [efloraofindia:224940] Hooghly-skMAY23/24 Spermacoce hispida >> L.??? >> To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> >> >> >> Yesterday I went to the place where I found what i thought to be *Leucas >> aspera* (Willd.) Link. But the population was invisible there. Instead i >> noticed a population of this herb, a bit stout, less than 1 ft height, >> possibly on the onset of flowering season. Leaves are around 1.5 to 2 cm. >> >> Can it be *Spermacoce hispida* L. >> <http://www.biolib.cz/en/taxonimage/id110182/?taxonid=720609>? >> >> Thank you >> Regards >> surajit koley >> a *non-botanist* member of >> efloraofIndia google group >> >> -- >> 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). 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