That is the point ... or controversy ... Dinesh sir , what I know as Rungia repens , has flowers about 1 cm or little larger ... in colors purple to light purple to white . Procumbent to erect up to 3 feet when crowded, leaf up to 5-6 cm long , elliptic , pointed tip , pointed base , very small petiole , somewhat hairy , more on underside . Spike always erect , up to 20 cm but usually 10 cm and longer fall down and tip bends upwards again , width of spike about 10 mm . If this description fits to both , them either both are conspecific , or there are differences we need to find out . >From your images , Dinesh sir , I deduce that in R. elegans papery margin of bract is colorful , and spikes bear more than 2 flowers at a time .. . in Rungia repens papery part is white , flowers usually 1 or 2 per spike at a time .
On Sat, Jan 4, 2020, 18:22 Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> wrote: > Garg ji, the flowers of Justicia concinna > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/a/acanthaceae/justicia/rungia-elegans> > or *Rungia elegans* are very large - as large as 1cm across or even 1.5 > cm. and as such this species poses no confusion among the tiny flowered > Rungia spp. > Image by Dinesh ji at Rungia pectinata in FOI > <http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Comb%20Rungia.html>,is > indeed *Rungia pectinata* - the flowers here are barely 1 to 2 *mm* > I have no doubts here. > Regards. > Dinesh > > > On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 3:01 PM J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think, Image by Dinesh ji at Rungia pectinata in FOI >> <http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Comb%20Rungia.html>, is of >> Justicia >> concinna >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/a/acanthaceae/justicia/rungia-elegans> >> as >> per images and details herein. >> Pl. check and correct. >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> >> >> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. >> >> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, >> please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group >> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the >> world- more than 3,000 members & 3,00,000 messages on 23.8.18) or >> Efloraofindia >> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species >> database of more than 13,000 species & 3,00,000 images of which more than >> 2,00,000 images are directly displayed on 30.8.19). >> >> 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). You can also use them for free as >> per Creative Commons license attached with each image. >> >> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >> India'. >> > -- 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 view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CACeZjXhQt%2BY_m3BUHh%3DokG01vwwNiXAVFZ6GWsxua_-JhxLzwA%40mail.gmail.com.
