*Hello I m too confused because of the leaves of above posted plant. But my
opinion is go with **Commelina paludosa** rather than Commelina forskalaei.
*
*Commelina paludosa** *Blume, Enum. Pl. Jav. 1: 2. 1827; Rao and Kammathy,
JBNHS 59: 60, 1962.
Type: Java. Blume 807. (Herb. Lugd. Bat. 899. 2285-488)
Lectotype.*Commelina obliqua *Buch. –Ham. ex D. Don. Fl. Nepal. 45. 1825;
Clarke In: Dc., Mon. Phan. 3: 178. 1881; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 372.
1892; Cooke, Fl. Pres. Bombay 3: 372. 1906; Fischer In: Gamble, Fl. Pres.
Madras, 1076. 1928, non Vahl, 1806. *Commelina polyspatha *Wight, Ic. t.
2066. 1853.
Erect-scrambling perennial herb. Stems often erect, simple or
sometimes branched distally, to 1 m, glabrous or sparsely hispidulous.
Leaves sessile; leaf sheath densely brown hispid at mouth and in a line on 1
side, sometimes either glabrous with only a few hairs at mouth or hirsute
throughout; leaf blade lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 7--20 × 2--7 cm,
glabrous on both surfaces or adaxially granular hairy and abaxially hirsute.
Involucral bracts often 4--10, forming terminal heads, sessile, funnelform,
c. 2 × 1.5--2 cm, glabrous, proximal margins connate, apex acute or shortly
so. Cincinnus 1; peduncle c. 1.2 cm; flowers 1 to several, nearly included
in involucral bracts; pedicels c. 7 mm, twisted. Sepals 3--6 mm, membranous.
Petals blue, 4.5--8 mm. Capsule ovoid-globose, trigonous, c. 4 mm, 3-valved.
Seeds 1 per valve, dark brown, ellipsoid, c. 3.5 mm, slightly flattened,
finely reticulate; hilum linear-punctiform, embryotega lateral.
*Flowering and Fruiting:* August to February.
*Distribution:* *C. paludosa *is distributed in India, Sri Lanka, Burma and
Tropical Africa (Faden, 2000).
*Localities:* From forest borders of Dajipur, Borbet, Chandrapur
(Maharashtra), Kankumbhi (Karnataka).
*Ecology:* It is common along forest margins. It prefers exposed or
partially shady habitats.
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Rashida Atthar <[email protected]>wrote:
> Saw this commelina sp. in the forest of Mumbai in November 2010, is it C.
> benghalensis?
>
> regards,
> Rashida.
>
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Mr. Mayur D. Nandikar,
Research Student,
Department of Botany,
Shivaji University,
Kolhapur.
