Muthu-ji, Thanks for the confirmation, it is the same plant as in your post. Collection was also similaar locality, near paddy fileds, kanchipuram dstt
Indeed a confusion with "Harebell" can be there because of the delicacy and colour of the petals, but the corolla is not symmetric all around and the leaves are very different. regards A.Sinha On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Muthu Karthick <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >
