Agree with Dinesh ji. Its Asystasia gangetica. On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote:
> ... me thinks it to be *Asystasia gangetica* ... commonly known as: > asystasia, Ganges primrose, Chinese violet, creeping foxglove • Kannada: > ಮೆದ್ಧೆ ಸೊಪ್ಪು meddhe soppu • Malayalam: valli-upu-dali • Marathi: लवण वल्ली > lavana valli • Sanskrit: लवण वल्ली lavana valli • Tamil: மிதிகீரை miti kirai > > > Regards. > > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:11 PM, tanay bose <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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]<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. > 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 R. Vijayasankar National Center for Natural Products Research, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS-38677, USA. -- 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.
