Dear Muthu ji, I hope the plant in the attached photo is ....................
*Ruellia tuberosa L.,* Sp. Pl. 635. 1753. Maheshw., Fl. Delhi 272. 1963; Stewart in Nasir & Ali, l.c. 678; Rani & Mathew in Mathew, Fl. Tamal. Carn. 3(1): 1197. 1982. An erect, up to 60 (-70) cm tall herb with stout, 4-angled stems, swollen and purplish at the nodes, tender parts sparsely hairy. Roots slender, elongated, tuberous. Leaves with up to 2 cm long petiole; lamina oblong-obovate to oblanceolate, 5-9 (-10) x 2-4 cm, shining, basally cuneate to attenuate, entire to ± undulate, obtuse to somewhat acute, often mucronulate. Flowers shortly pedicellate, blue-violet, showy, 5-5.5 cm long, c. 3.5 cm across, solitary or in 1-3-flowered, terminal or axillary cymes; bracts and bracteoles linear-lanceolate, c. 5 mm long. Calyx lobes ± equal, linear, 1.3-2 cm long, ciliate, acute. Corolla pubescent outside, tube c. 3.5 cm long, abruptly narrowed at base, limb 5-lobed, lobes ± equal, ovate, c. 1.5 cm long, patent. Stamens with oblong-sagittate, c. 4 mm long, puberulous anthers. Ovary oblong, c. 4 mm long, glabrous; style 2.3-2.5 cm long. Capsule oblong, 2.2-3 cm long, glabrous or scabrescent, 24-28-seeded, minutely beaked at tip. Seeds flattened, orbicular, c. 2 mm across, hairy. Regards Tanay On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Muthu Karthick <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > Please id this Acantaceae member. > > *Date/Time-* > > 19-01-2010 / 11:00 AM > > *Location- Place, Altitude, GPS-* > > Erode Dist.; ca. 300msl > > *Habitat-** Garden**/ Urban/ Wild/ Type-* > > Fallow lands > > *Plant Habit-* > > small shrub > > *Height/Length-* > > Up to 1 metre > > *Leaves Type/ Shape/ Size-* > > Leaves ovate; up to 6cm long > > *Inflorescence Type/ Size-* > > terminal raceme; > > *Flowers Size/ Colour/ Calyx/ Bracts-* > > pink-violet colored; ca.3 cm across > > *Fruits Type/ Shape/ Size Seeds- * > > > *Other information-* > > > -- > Muthu Karthick, N > Junior Research Fellow > Care Earth Trust > Chennai - 61 > www.careearthtrust.org > > -- > 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) -- 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]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en.
