Aechmanthera gossypina from Chakrata Mussoorie Road pl. validate

[Gurcharan Singh]

Aechmanthera gossypina (Wall. ex Nees) Nees, Pl. As. Rar. 3: 87, 1832

Syn: Ruellia tomentosa Wall.; Ruellia gossypina Nees; Aechmanthera tomentosa Nees

Small shrubby plant to 130 cm tall, covered with white felt; leaves elliptic, toothed, white-tomentose beneath; flowers purplish to blue, 2-2.5 cm long, in elongated clusters forming lax leafy spike; calyx lobes linear, densely glandulary-hairy, corolla funnel-shaped, shallowly 5-lobed.

Photographed along roadsides on Mussoorie-Chakrata Road on September 16, 2011

Please validate the identification. Here are some links

http://planttaxonomy.blogspot.com/2008/03/aechmanthera-gossypina-wall-nees.html

http://www.iiim.res.in/herbarium/acanthaceae/images/aechmanthera_gossypina.jpg

http://www.springerimages.com/Images/LifeSciences/1-10.1007_s12225-009-9098-2-10

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[Balkar Arya]

Thanks Sir for this upload Now Situation Clear but i think i missed this plant to shoot

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Dr Balkar Singh
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Arya P G College, Panipat
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[Balkar Arya]

Finally i got my plant also

here are mine from same place

[Gurcharan Singh]

Yes Balkar ji, you have got it

but somehow I missed the Pteracanthus, thinking that I already had many.

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Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297  Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ 

[J.M. Garg]

Feedback as per another thread:

My earlier upload as Aechmanthera may be Strobilanthes, perhaps S. glutinosus because of petioled leaves, foliaceous looking persistent bracts although calyx is not glandular pubescent. Pl. suggest ID.

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[J.M. Garg]

A reply:

"It looks like Aechmathera gosypina to me.

                                     Krishan Lal"

[J.M. Garg]

Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please.

Some earlier relevant feedback:

	Feedback as per another thread: My earlier upload as Aechmanthera may be Strobilanthes, perhaps S. glutinosus because of petioled leaves, foliaceous looking persistent bracts although calyx is not glandular pubescent. Pl. suggest ID. - from Singh ji.

It looks like Aechmathera gosypina to me. Krishan Lal

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Date: 22 September 2011 23:00
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[J.M. Garg]

Thanks, Dr. Wood.

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From: John Wood
Date: 6 September 2014 19:44
Subject: RE: [efloraofindia:82929] Aechmanthera gossypina from Chakrata Mussoorie Road pl. validate
To: "J.M. Garg" <jmg...@gmail.com>

I believe this is Strobilanthes tomentosa (Nees) J.R.I.Wood which is the correct name for Aechmanthea gossypina.
 
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John wood
 

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Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 14:01:28 +0530
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[Gurcharan Singh]

Dear members

This plant was identifies as Aechmanthera gossypina now named as Strobilanthes tomentosa. In his personal communication he considered it as variation of this species.

The other plant which I thought actual Aechmanthera gossypina was also confirmed by Dr. Wood as S. tomentosa

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/indiantreepix/Aechmanthera$20gossypina$20from$20Chakrata$20Mussoorie$20Road$20pl.$20validate/indiantreepix/u5wlyoPQgkQ/b3U7awv-DDgJ.

To me both plants look very different. If this is correctly identified we need to have relook at other one.

Dr. Gurcharan Singh

Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
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