Nice catch sir ji, Another new plant for me.. Thanks for sharing On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a feeling that this is the same plant which is represented at FOI as > Lindenbergia grandiflora. L. grandiflora is supposed to be a plant much more > densely and spreading hairy with flowers almost 2.5-3 cm long with corolla > 2-3 times as long as calyx, and also leaves may be up to 20 cm long. In our > plants the plants are appressed hairy to almost glabrous, leaves smaller > than 6 am and corolla 10-12 mm long, tube slightly longer than calyx. > There is some some confusion whether our plant should be called as L. > macrostachya Benth. (Kew Plant List considers it as unresolved name) or L. > philippensis Benth. which is reported from Nepal Himalayas but without > citation of synonym. Flora of British India considers this as a variety of > L. philippensis with shorter petioles and more glabrous parts. > > My photograph number 4 looks to be the same but has much interrupted > inflorescence with distant flowers, or may represent early stage of the same > plant. Your view please. > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > -- *Manudev K Madhavan* Junior Research Fellow Systematic & Floristic Lab, Department of Botany, Centre for Postgraduate Studies & Research St. Joseph's College, Devagiri Kozhikode- 673 008 Mob: 9496470738
