Acanthaceae Fortnight :: ID Request - Eranthemum :: Devgad :: ARKMAR-37/49

[Alka Khare]

Hello friends

Requesting to please provide ID of the plant captured at Devgad, Konkan Maharashtra in May 2014.

Was posted on the forum earlier here.

Could this be E. capens var. concanense based on the key provided here

Thanks and regards

Alka Khare

[J.M. Garg]

Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please.

Some earlier relevant feedback:

efi page on Eranthemum capense

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[surajit koley]

Bracts and spike look very different in -

• https://groups.google.com/d/msg/indiantreepix/6kMXUdZ3_WM/STChJUrMGOkJ
  
• https://groups.google.com/d/msg/indiantreepix/6U9CDJnDUKg/j_JpbU5fOQUJ
  

Thank you

Regards

[Alka Khare]

I agree Surajit ji, the bracts and spikes do look different....

I wonder then, what this could be...

Thanks and regards

Alka Khare

[J.M. Garg]

Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please.

Some earlier relevant feedback:

efi page on Eranthemum capense

Bracts and spike look very different in -

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/indiantreepix/6kMXUdZ3_WM/STChJUrMGOkJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/indiantreepix/6U9CDJnDUKg/j_JpbU5fOQUJ Thank you Regards

Surajit

I agree Surajit ji, the bracts and spikes do look different.... I wonder then, what this could be...

Thanks and regards Alka Khare

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[surajit koley]

I do not have any idea Alka Ji. Please check the KEY provided by Rashida Ji - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/indiantreepix/uLP6eGpSb6o/1a-7NcVFsRUJ.

Thank you

Regards

surajit

[Alka Khare]

Thanks Surajit ji for the key link.....Using this key, the plant appears to be E. pubescens (Bracts densely pubescent).

Copying the key provided here by Rashida ji ( from Dr. Almeida's flora for Eranthemum L.  Vol  IV,  A pg: 36) for easy reference, please validate

1.Flowers reddish -pink---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------E. cinnabarinum

1.Flowers blue-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2

   2. Bracts densely pubescent-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------E. pubescens  

   2. Bracts glabrous or faintly hairy-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3

       3.Bracts white with green veins, obovate, obtuse, with a short reflexed mucro-------------------------------------------------------------4

          4. Plants with many erect branches springing from a common base------------------------------------------------------------E. wattii 

          4. Plants with single stem, branched above, not in clumps------------------------------------------------------------------------------------5

              5. Flowers 3-4 cm across --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- E. roseum

              5. Flowers upto 2.5 cm across------------------------------------------------------------------------------------E. roseum var. parviflorum 

        3.Bracts greeen, elliptic, ovate,acuminate--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------6   

              6. Flowers in dense,usually solitary,uninterrupted spikes;bracts exceeding 2 cm long-------------------E. purpurascens 

              6. Flowers in interrupted usually paniculate spikes; bracts less than 1 cm long---------------------------------------------------7

                  7. Leaves  elliptic-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  E. fastigiatum 

                  7. Leaves  ovate----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------E. pulchellum

 

Thanks and regards

Alka Khare

[Gurcharan Singh]

Forwarding for ID

Distributed as Eranthemum species- Devgad, Konkan, Maharashtra

Group discussion at

Acanthaceae Fortnight :: ID Request - Eranthemum :: Devgad :: ARKMAR-37/49 (google.com)

[Gurcharan Singh]

Forwarding for ID

Distributed as Eranthemum species- Devgad, Konkan, Maharashtra

Group discussion at

Acanthaceae Fortnight :: ID Request - Eranthemum :: Devgad :: ARKMAR-37/49 (google.com)

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[Saroj Kasaju]

Looks matching with images from Eranthemum pubescens Roth from efi !

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

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