All three similar species are listed in FBI (under names D. riparia, D.
roxburghiana and D. roxburghiana var. bupleuroides): Here is comparison of
accepted names
D. riparia Nees is distributed in Pegu and Tenassarim (Myanmar),FBI
according to Flora China Nepal, Myanmar to Yunan: Lesves ovate, obtuse
often emarginate bracts, bracteoles 6 mm, linear.
D. chinensis (L.) Juss. (Syn: D. roxburghiana Nees): Leaves ovate-elliptic,
base cuneate to attenuate, decurrent on petiole, outer bracteoles 5-13 mm x
3-8 mm , less than twice as long as broad, corolla 10-12 mm long;
Throughout India
D. bupleuroides Nees (Syn: D. roxburghiana var. bupleuroides (Nees)
Clarke): leaves ovate, base cuneate; outer bracteoles 5-7 mm long, more
than twice as long as broad; corolla 5 mm long.; Throughout India
When looking for specimens from Western Himalayas we have to be vigilant
about size of corolla and relative length breadth ratio of outer bracteoles.
This is also D. chinensis
On Thursday, July 16, 2020 at 3:47:22 PM UTC+5:30 JM Garg wrote:
> On further examination and discussions at thread: Dicliptera bupleuroides
> Nees (accepted name) ???
> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/indiantreepix/8yOt1uf4EyA> , I
> feel it should be *Dicliptera riparia *
> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/a/acanthaceae/dicliptera/dicliptera-riparia>
> Nees
> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/a/acanthaceae/dicliptera/dicliptera-riparia>
>
> (syn: *Dicliptera roxburghiana* var. *riparia* (Nees) Benoist) as per
> distribution, specimens and references herein.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 at 10:36
> Subject: [efloraofindia:113301] Dicliptera chinensis from Kud J & K Pl.
> validate
> To: <[email protected]>
>
>
> *Dicliptera chinensis* (L.) Juss., Ann. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. 9: 268.
> 1807.
> syn: *D. roxburghiana* Nees.
>
> The plant was photographed from Kud J & K. Looks clearly different from
> the other plant in its larger darker coloured flowers, leaves hairy along
> veins below, bracts broader and flowers mostly in upper parts, and more
> significantly much longer style.
>
> The species according to Flora of China is differentiated by leaf
> ovate-elliptic, abaxially puberulent along veins, base decurrent onto
> petiole, apex shortly acuminate to acute; floweres in 1-4 flowered cymules,
> with 3-4 cymules per cyme, on 2-5 mm peduncles from upper leaf axils,
> bracts subulate to linear to oblanceolate to obovate, 3-7.5 × 0.3-1 mm;
> outer bracteoles elliptic to obovate, 5-13 × 3-8 mm, unequal, abaxially
> puberulent, 3-veined,; inner bracteoles linear, ca. 5 mm, abaxially
> hirsute, apex acuminate. Pedicel 0.5-3 mm, puberulent. Calyx ca. 5 mm;
> lobes linear, equal, margin hirsute, apex acuminate. Corolla pale purple,
> 1-1.2 cm, lip in lower position ovate, ca. 5 × 3 mm, apex entire; lip in
> upper position oblong, ca. 4 × 1.5 mm. filaments ca. 4 mm, style ca. 1.4
> cm. Capsule broadly ellipsoid, ca. 6 mm. Seeds 2 mm.
>
>
>
> <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-5d9poxxV6q8/T4URCWk6V-I/AAAAAAAABDY/snzoB8ij1CA/s1600/Dicliptera-roxburgiana-Kud-J+%26+K-1.jpg>
> Dicliptera-roxburgiana-Kud-J & K-1
>
>
>
> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3GCbBZZ9a7E/T4URPEYBc1I/AAAAAAAABDk/iWKQcCSjqM8/s1600/Dicliptera-roxburgiana-Kud-J+%26+K-3.jpg>
> Dicliptera-roxburgiana-Kud-J & K-3
>
> Gurcharan Singh
>
>
>
>
> --
> With regards,
> J.M.Garg
>
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