Dear Prabhuji, Muthuji, Gibyji, Vijaysankarji and Gargji, Thanks for your valuable feed back. If I may say so, this apparently unusual plant indicates that there is so much need for extensive fieldwork to unearth all the existing species. Regards Dr Badri Narayanan On Jun 29, 2012 9:11 PM, "Giby Kuriakose" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think this plant is distributed in Sirumalai hills and Alagar Kovil > hills as well. > > > > Regards, > Giby > > > > > On 29 June 2012 20:07, Vijayasankar <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It may be *Barleria acanthoides*. The key in the recent revision lead me >> to this id. >> Ref.: Revision of the Genus Barleria (Acanthaceae) in India. By Shanksr & >> Yadav 2010. >> >> Its nice to know about the new find, Prabhu. Congrats! I look forward to >> see your published paper... >> >> Regards >> >> Vijayasankar Raman >> National Center for Natural Products Research >> University of Mississippi >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Prabhu kumar KM < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> It is not *Barleria cuspidata*. In *B. cuspidata* leaves are >>> Ovate-elliptic. It is linear. >>> It shows close similarity to my new species *B. tamilnadensis (in >>> press) *except in the flower colour. >>> -- >>> *Prabhu Kumar K M* >>> Scientist >>> Plant Systematics & Genetic Resources Division >>> Centre for Medicinal Plants Research (CMPR) >>> & 'CMPR' Herbarium >>> Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala >>> Kottakkal, Malappuram >>> *E-mail: [email protected]* >>> >>> >> > > > -- > GIBY KURIAKOSE PhD > Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), > Royal Enclave, > Jakkur Post, Srirampura > Bangalore- 560064 > India > Phone - +91 9448714856 +919947109987 (Mobile) > visit my pictures @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/giby >
