Thanks, Sasidharan ji, But it is not Rungia parviflora as per discussions at Sorting Rungia species <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/indiantreepix/sorting%7Csort:date/indiantreepix/rsE7CWvtB_Y/Ezbywup1CQAJ> I am reproducing the details in Flora of British India <https://books.google.co.in/books?id=jIRIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA550&dq=rungia+pectinata+%2B+flora+of+british+India&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjvnozrmu7mAhWx4jgGHSR3Bj4Q6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=rungia%20pectinata%20%2B%20flora%20of%20british%20India&f=false>. Pl. check.
Top portion of it, I am copying and pasting from IBIS Flora <https://flora.indianbiodiversity.org/content/rungia-parviflora-nees-5> as below: *Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar.* iii. 110, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 469, excl. syn. ;* leaves small ovate or lanceolate nearly glabrous, bracts dimorphic barren elliptic or oblong subobtuse striate hardly margined, fertile obovate glabrous scarious-margined ciliate, bracteoles elliptic scarcely acute, corolla 1/4 in. **R. repens*, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 518 partly, not of Nees. *R. longifolia*, Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 266, not of Nees. S. DECCAN PENINSULA ; Weight (2011, 2285 Herb. Propr.). CEYLON ; Thwaites (C. P., nn. 257, 3354). *A small, ramous weed. Lower leaves 1 by 1/4-1/2 in., petioled, ovate, upper narrow sometimes linear. Spikes 3/4 by 1/4 in., nearly all terminal, markedly 1-sided ; barren bracts not cuspidate. Capsule 1/5 in. ; seeds small, minutely verrucose*.—*This, the typical R. parviflora, Nees, appears a very rare plant *; Nees, however, referred numerous specimens with the fertile bracts hairy all over to R. parviflora, but which are R. pectinata, Nees, as far as the description goes. Lower portion of it, I am copying and pasting from IBIS Flora <https://flora.indianbiodiversity.org/node/87743/revisions/91047/view> as below: Revision of *Rungia parviflora var. pectinata (Nees) C.B.Clarke* from *Fri, 2014-03-07 13:48* *flowerless bracts mucronate often cuspidate flowering hairy*. *R. pectinata*, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 470 ; Wight Ic. t. 1547 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 517. *R. parviflora*, Nees l. c. partly ; Griff. Notul, iv. 144 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 195. *R. polygonoides*, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. Hi. 110, and Cat. 7181, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 471 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 196. *Justicia pectinata*, Linn. Amoen. Acad. iv. 299 ; Lamk. Ill. i. t. 12, fig. 3 ; Roxb. Corom. Pl. ii. 29, t. 153, and Fl. Ind. i. 133 ; Wall. Cat. 2458. *J. parviflora*, Retz Obs. v. 9. J. infracta, Vahl Enum. i. 155.—*Throughout India, from the Himalaya to Ceylon and Pegu, a universal weed.*—Usually ramous. Leaves 3/4 by 1/3 in. ; petiole 1/8 in. Spikes 1 by 1/4 in., *terminal and axillary, clustered, subsessile, distinctly 1-sided ; *barren bracts 1/6 by 1/12 in., scarcely margined ; fertile 1/10 in. diam., orbicular, apiculate, scarious- marginate, hairy on back as well as on margins ; bracteoles 1/10 in., elliptic, subacute. Calyx 1/12 in. ; segments linear-lanceolate, pubescent. Corolla blue or whiteish, upper lip short. Anther-cells superposed, lower white-tailed.—The area of this abundant plant should perhaps be extended to Java, &c., but the examples thence (Dicliptera coerulea, Blume Bijd. 791) differ considerably from all the Indian material, which is very uniform in character, the size of the heads and bracts varying a little. Thus from above *flowerless bracts mucronate often cuspidate flowering hairy for R.pectinata and **flowerless bracts subobtuse for R. parviflora *being the key. On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 08:42, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Sasidharan ji > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: nanu sasidharan <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 07:40 > Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:176190] Pls help me for Identifying Justicia > sp. > To: J.M. Garg <[email protected]> > > > Rungia parviflora > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 4:05 PM J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Forwarding again for Id assistance please. >> >> Some earlier relevant feedback: >> >> Look the secund inflorescence, it represents Rungia - from Santhosh ji >> >> This should be *Justicia pectinata* >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/a/acanthaceae/justicia/rungia-pectinata> >> as >> per discussions at *Sorting Rungia species* >> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topicsearchin/indiantreepix/subject$3Asorting/indiantreepix/rsE7CWvtB_Y> >> - from me >> >> OMG specimen !!!!!! And I disagree. This needs to be investigated . >> Here is why ..... >> Leaves very broad, Peduncles to spikes loooong ! Spikes lax. >> It seems flowers are white and bigger than typical J. pectinata. >> I would like to see hairs on fertile bracts. >> It seems this belongs outside parviflora/ pectinata complex. - from >> rakesh ji >> >> Thanks, Rakesh ji, >> You have wonderful observatory power. >> This should be Justicia crenatifolia >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/a/acanthaceae/justicia/rungia-crenata> >> - >> from me >> >> I do not agree with Rungia crenatifolia, not matching with images in Justicia >> crenatifolia >> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fsite%2Fefloraofindia%2Fspecies%2Fa---l%2Fa%2Facanthaceae%2Fjusticia%2Frungia-crenata&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHuUyStKpUxfKhn2-q95-Pfzkii0w> >> >> Rungia sisparensis is a possibility - from Rakesh ji >> >> To me looks different from Rungia sisparensis as per GBIF >> <https://www.gbif.org/en/species/3779971> High resolution specimen >> <https://api.gbif.org/v1/image/unsafe/https%3A%2F%2Fpictures.bgbm.org%2Fdigilib%2FScaler%2FIIIF%2FB!10!11!86!47!B_10_1186477__1.jpg%2Ffull%2F2048%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg> >> Flora of Karnataka >> <https://api.gbif.org/v1/image/unsafe/https%3A%2F%2Fpictures.bgbm.org%2Fdigilib%2FScaler%2FIIIF%2FB!10!11!86!47!B_10_1186477__1.jpg%2Ffull%2F2048%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg> >> POWO >> <http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60464975-2> >> IBIS Flora >> <https://flora.indianbiodiversity.org/content/rungia-sisparensis-tanderson-0> >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message --------- >> From: Binu Thomas <[email protected]> >> Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 at 13:50 >> Subject: [efloraofindia:176190] Pls help me for Identifying Justicia sp. >> To: <[email protected]> >> >> >> >> Any body pls help me for correct nomenclature of >> >> Justicia sp. from Kottayam district of Kerala >> -- >> >> >> >> *Binu Thomas* >> Guest Faculty >> Department of Botany >> Deva Matha College, Kuravilangadu >> , Kottayam, Kerala - 686633 >> >> +91 9496019377 >> +91 9843609848 >> [email protected] >> https://www.facebook.com/binu.thomas.94695459?ref=tn_tnmn >> >> * "Conserve our Mother Nature through Sustainable Utilization"* >> >> -- >> 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/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> -- >> 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). 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