Tabish ji, i will verify the id once again. My id has reference to the short calyx lobes. http://www.iaat.org.in/Rheedea19_53-57.pdf M. glabra looks different from my plant as well as that of Prashant ji: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ncmls/4326249184/ ; http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Dwarf%20Mussaenda.html
Prashant ji's plants (beautiful pictures!) have longer calyx lobes and pubescent corolla. So both are different species as you said. Dinesh ji, i understand that there are some 'climbing' (straggling) shrubs in Mussaenda, for e.g. M. pubescens. Your plant looks like a straggling shrub to me too. So this thread contains three different species i hope. [I am unable to give a clearer picture as i dont have access to Indian Floras at present]. With regards Vijayasankar On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:44 AM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: > Vijaysankar ji, the query because, had found similar species of *Mussaenda > * at Prabal Machi (near Panvel, Maharashtra) ... 11JUL10 8:28AM > Could see those white bracts on the canopy of a small tree (this tree was > out of reach, so could not get nearer). > > A photo (very poor quality, attached) shows the sighting, leading me to > wonder whether any Mussaenda "climbs". > Climb may not be appropriate, nor straggle ... very loosely growing with > sturdy support. > > The habitat is a slope, and it is possible that the *Mussaenda* plant > could be rooted somewhere higher up on the ground, and may have sent its > slender branches among the tree branches ... the apparent sight could have > misled me. > > > Regards. > > > > > > 11JUL10 8:28AM at Prabal Machi, near Panvel, Maharashtra > > > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:42 AM, R. Vijayasankar < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> It was a shrub Dinesh ji, if i remember correctly. >> >> With regards >> >> Vijayasankar >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Dinesh Valke >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Vijayasankar ji, does this plant have a climbing tendency ? >>> Regards. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:15 AM, tanay bose <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks for sharing ... I appreciate the photography. >>>> >>>> Tanay >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:28 AM, R. Vijayasankar < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> *Mussaenda macrophylla*, the white bracts are attractive even from a >>>>> distance in the forest. >>>>> >>>>> With regards >>>>> >>>>> Vijayasankar >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Tanay Bose >>>> +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) >>>> 9830439691(Mobile) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
