A reply: "L. stelligera Wall. Pl. As. Rar. 1: 61. 1831; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. India 4: 686. 1885; Cooke, Fl. Pres. Bombay 2: 553. 1958 (Repr.);
Herbs, up to 1 m high; stems and branches hairy with erect and spreading hairs, quadrangular. Leaves 4.8 x 1.8.2.5 cm, elliptic.lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, softly hairy on both sides, apex subacute, base tapering, margins serrate. Flowers white, in dense, many.flowered, axillary and terminal heads; bracts up to 0.6 cm long, linear; calyx 0.5.0.8 cm long; corolla 0.8.1.2 cm long, tube annulate inside. Nutlets c 0.2 cm long, ovoid, smooth. This is the desciption of Leucas steilligera from Flora of Maharashtra. In Mahabaleswhar and Kas region these plants are plenty. Main difference is: In L. stelligera the infl is many flowered where as here only two or so flowers are seen. I disagree to name a plant as Leucas stelligera. Regards, I remain, Rajendra Kshirsagar, Ph. D. I Manager (R&D), Godrej Consumer Products Ltd., I Vikhroli (East), Mumbai I" On 17 July 2012 14:38, jmgarg1 <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. > > Some earlier relevant feedback: > > “*Leucas procumbens*, I suppose. Regards, Shrikant” > > > > “It is Leucas for sure. Pl also *check it for L. biflora*. > > Regards > Vijayasankar Raman” > > > > “May be *Leucas biflora*” from Prabhu Kumar ji. > > "From whatever I concluded from the info. available to me. > 1)Leucas biflora(2 var....biflora and procumbens) will have lax whorls, > which are 2-4 flowered. > Here it is showing many more flowered. > 2)Mouth of calyx tube doesn't look to be oblique....which eliminates a > large group. > 3)Calyx teeth stellately spreading, mouth villous.......Well I think so. > (The other group has Calyx teeth not stellately spreading, mouth not > villous) > 4)Next we have to look for upper lip of corolla > a)densely bearded with rufous hairs; calyx teeth lanceolate .... > L. ciliata > a)densely bearded with white hairs; calyx teeth not lanceolate ... > b)Calyx tube pubescent or tomentose, glandular teeth linear > ...L.stelligera > b)Calyx tube glabrous below, villous above the middle teeth > subulate L.eriostema. > *Considering the above Key the illustrated plant appears to be > L.stelligera.* > *Please comment and opine*." from Satish ji. > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Rathinasabapathy Bhuvaragasamy <[email protected]> > Date: 9 December 2011 14:48 > Subject: [efloraindia:98566] efloraindia: 091211 BRS 253 > To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> > > > > Pl. find the attached file contain photo for id. request. > > Location: Anaikatti, Coimbatore > Date: )8.12.2011 > Habitat: Wild > Habit: Herb > > Thanks > > B. Rathinasabapathy > Project Co-ordinator > Nilgiri Biosphere Nature Park > 1388, Avinashi Road > Peelamedu > Coimbatore-641004 > > <http://mail.google.com/subscribe.mhtml> > > > > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use > them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1900 members & > 1,20,700 messages on 30/6/12) or Efloraofindia website: > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database > of more than 7000 species). > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > > -- With regards, J.M.Garg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1900 members & 1,20,700 messages on 30/6/12) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 7000 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'.
