Dear Sinhaji, Your plant is *Stemodia viscosa* Roxb. of Scrophulariaceae. Did you collected the herb near any moist locality?
Please see my earlier posting of the same plant collected near Chennai. https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/b59894e77baac4b1/3a58abe8dd405731?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=stemodia# <https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/b59894e77baac4b1/3a58abe8dd405731?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=stemodia#> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 12:10 AM, A.Sinha <[email protected]> wrote: > Picture now attached ! > A.Sinha > > > On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 12:03 AM, greenearth <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This herb was found in outskirts of Chennai, small about 30 cm high, >> somewhat erect but with weak soft quadrangular stem. Flowering in >> February. >> >> Because of the dentate leaf margin I thought it was some >> Strobilanthes, but all species seem much taller and also the flowers >> here are in a sparse spike >> >> I would like to know the ID and how it is distinguished. >> Thanks for any inputs >> A.Sinha >> >> I > > > -- Muthu Karthick, N Care Earth Trust #15, second main road, Thillai ganga nagar, Chennai - 600 061 Mob: 0091 96268 33911 www.careearthtrust.org
