Dear Tabish, Here is the reply which i had received from Mr J.R.I. wood (John Wood), Oxford.
"Plant is *Strobilanthes auriculata*. Note broad bracts covered in long hairs and sessile leaves. A very nice photo!. regards Prashant On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Tabish <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Tanay, > The flower at FOI, named Koutruk Lei, has proved to be really difficult > to identify, simply because not much was known to us apart from this poor > quality picture taken at a flower show, where the claim about the long > flowering period was mentioned (has not been verified). Dimple's plant looks > to me the same as what we have - so I am happy to have clear photographs and > more info on it. > I was very excited at first, to know that this has been identified. > However, in your description, the flowers are 2-2.8 cm long, and the bracts > are 2 cm long, lanceshaped. So, the bracts are nearly as long as the > flowers. On the other hand, in Dimple's pics, the bracts (forming spikes of > overlapping green bracts) are much smaller than the flowers, and are > roundish or heart-shaped in shape. > I am attaching a drawing of *Strobilanthes quadrifaria *for comparison. > So, to me it appears that this should be some other species of > Strobilanthes. > I should also mention that the genus Strobilanthes has many species > with long gaps between flowering - Kurinji and Karvy are two well-known > examples. > Best wishes > - Tabish > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:07 PM, tanay bose <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear all, >> The plant in the attached photo is *Strobilanthes quadrifaria **(Wall. ex >> Nees)* belonging to the family Acanthaceae. In the Flowers of India site >> it has been put under the unidentifies section calling it "Kortuk Lei" in >> Manipuri. >> >> Description of the plant : >> >> Undershrub (0.2–)1–1.5 m high, stems pilose with large-celled hairs. >> Leaves equal in >> each pair, petiolate; petioles (0.3–)1.5–4 cm long, pilose; blades >> 5–11×2–6 cm, elliptic to >> ovate, acute, base attenuate and ± decurrent onto the petiole, margin >> crenulate-dentate, rather >> densely pilose with large white hairs on both surfaces and especially on >> the veins. >> Inflorescence of shortly pedunculate axillary and terminal spikes densely >> covered with long, >> silky, white large-celled hairs, spikes 2–5 cm long, ca. 1 cm wide, very >> compact; peduncles >> 0.5–1 cm long. Bracts lanceolate, ca. 2×0.6 cm, pilose with white >> large-celled hairs; >> bracteoles ovate, ca. 5×2 mm, pilose with white large-celled hairs >> especially towards the >> apex. Calyx 8–10 mm long, silky, with white large-celled hairs, 5-lobed to >> 1 mm of the base, >> lobes linear, acuminate, ciliate. Corolla in bud puberulent, in flower >> purple, 2–2.8 cm long, >> straight, the tube 2 mm wide at the base, then gradually widened to 6–8 >> mm, outside glabrous >> except for the lobes, inside glabrous except for hairs retaining the >> style, lobes ovate, rounded, >> 4×4 mm; stamens 4, didynamous, filaments pilose, the longer pair ca. 8 mm >> long, the shorter >> pair ca. 4 mm long; anthers included, the thecae oblong, glabrous, 3×1 mm. >> Style ca. 2 cm >> long, glabrous except for pilose at the base, ovary glabrous. Capsule not >> seen. >> Regards >> Tanay >> >> *Garg Ji Please forward this mail to Tabish Ji from "Flowers of India " >> He can use this information if need . >> * >> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:54 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Forwarding again for Id assistance pl. >>> Earlier relevant feedback: >>> “... *some species of Strobilanthes*?” from Dinesh ji. >>> >>> “............*looks like Perilepta auriculata from Acanthaceae* >>> thanks >>> N.S.Dungriyal IFS” >>> >>> “Thanks for trying but it *did not match*. I went through The flowers of >>> >>> India & I found it in the list of unidentified flowers. Would you >>> >>> please help me identify it. Regards dolly” >>> >>> "Thanks Mr.Garg I have little more information regarding the flower.* In >>> the flowersofindia this flower is unidentified* & in the details it says >>> that it flowers once in nine years which could be true but I have been >>> seeing it flowering for two to three years in the same spot & it is exactly >>> the same flower shown in the unidentified pics of flowersofindia. Regards >>> Dimple. " >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: dimple bhati <[email protected]> >>> Date: 3 January 2010 15:14 >>> Subject: [indiantreepix:25911] Hairy looking blue flower for Id >>> To: [email protected] >>> >>> >>> Hi friends I have seen this flower growing in the creeks of the dried >>> river bed & close to the nallah in MP. It grows up to 2 to 2.5 ft in a >>> creeping way but the flower always upwards, it grows from March till April. >>> I am pretty sure that it is not nilgonda. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "indiantreepix" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]<indiantreepix%[email protected]> >>> . >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> With regards, >>> J.M.Garg ([email protected]) >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 >>> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >>> Image Resource of more than a thousand species of Birds, Butterflies, >>> Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): >>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg >>> For learning about Indian Flora, visit/ join Google e-group- >>> Efloraofindia:http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "efloraofindia" group. >>> >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]<indiantreepix%[email protected]> >>> . >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Tanay Bose >> +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) >> 9830439691(Mobile) >> 9674221362 (Mobile) >> >> > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Tabish Qureshi Phone: 011-26981753, 32959320(res) > Department of Physics Email: [email protected] > Jamia Millia Islamia Webpage: http://tabish.freeshell.org > New Delhi - 110025. > http://www.jamia-physics.net > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<indiantreepix%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. 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