Very interesting plant! It looks almost like* Pleiocraterium* *verticillare*(= *Hedyotis verticillaris*). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HedyotisVerticillaris.jpg
Regards Vijayasankar Raman National Center for Natural Products Research University of Mississippi On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Muthu Karthick <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > Please help me to identify this shrub in a rosette habit. The plant was > like green lotus flowering on the open grassland near water streams. After > seeing the tetramerous flowers and inter-petiolar stipule, I confirmed this > as Rubiaceae. Width of plant was up to 1.5 feet across. Inflorescence was > up to 10 cm longer; flower was 0.8 cm across. > > Location: Mukruti NP, Nilgiris, TN > Date: 22 Oct 2012 > Alt.: 2350 m asl > > > -- > Muthu Karthick, N > Care Earth Trust > #15, second main road, > Thillai ganga nagar, > Chennai - 600 061 > Mob: 0091 96268 33911 > www.careearthtrust.org > > -- > > > > --
