Aechmanthera gossipina? ABJUL01/39

[Ashwini Bhatia]

I have been confusing several bluebell species found here. I am not sure if this one which started flowering a week ago is Aechmanthera gossypina. I will be grateful for a proper key. Please advise.

Aechmanthera gossipina—Blue Trumpet Bush?

Above Mcleodganj, Dharamshala, HP

1800m

18, 22 July 2016

Thanks.

Ashwini

[J.M. Garg]

Superb!!!

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[Ashwini Bhatia]

Thank you Mr Garg.

On 26 Jul 2016, at 10:28, J.M. Garg <jmg...@gmail.com> wrote:

Superb!!!

On 25 July 2016 at 20:02, Ashwini Bhatia <ash...@ashwinibhatia.com> wrote:

I have been confusing several bluebell species found here. I am not sure if this one which started flowering a week ago is Aechmanthera gossypina. I will be grateful for a proper key. Please advise.

Aechmanthera gossipina—Blue Trumpet Bush?

Above Mcleodganj, Dharamshala, HP

1800m

18, 22 July 2016

Thanks.

Ashwini

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[Ashwini Bhatia]

Looking at the plant closely and consulting Col. Collett (Flora Simlensis), I am now of the opinion that this plant is Strobilanthes atropurpureus. I am putting additional photos here to illustrate why;

1. The stalks are square and deeply furrowed.

2. The lower leaves have winged stalks and the upper ones almost sessile.

3. Leaves vary in size on the same plant and are sharply toothed.

4. Bracts are persistent. 

I can also see that one of the sepals is longer than the other four, which Col. Collett doesn’t mention. I recall Dr Wood mentioning that as a characteristic of S. penstemonoides in another thread. 

Please advise if I am again wrong in identifying this as S. atropurpureus.

Thanks.

Ashwini

[Ashwini Bhatia]

or possibly this which is not included in Col. Collett’s book

http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Blue%20Nettle.html

Thanks.

Ashwini

On 29 Jul 2016, at 21:30, Ashwini Bhatia <ash...@ashwinibhatia.com> wrote:

Looking at the plant closely and consulting Col. Collett (Flora Simlensis), I am now of the opinion that this plant is Strobilanthes atropurpureus. I am putting additional photos here to illustrate why;

1. The stalks are square and deeply furrowed.

2. The lower leaves have winged stalks and the upper ones almost sessile.

3. Leaves vary in size on the same plant and are sharply toothed.

4. Bracts are persistent. 

I can also see that one of the sepals is longer than the other four, which Col. Collett doesn’t mention. I recall Dr Wood mentioning that as a characteristic of S. penstemonoides in another thread. 

Please advise if I am again wrong in identifying this as S. atropurpureus.

Thanks.

Ashwini

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[J.M. Garg]

Thanks, Ashwini ji, for the deeper analysis.

[Ashwini Bhatia]

Thank you Mr Garg. I am afraid I may still be wrong in identifying this. S. wallichii and S. urticifolia share similar traits.

Regards,

Ashwini

On 30 Jul 2016, at 09:43, J.M. Garg <jmg...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks, Ashwini ji, for the deeper analysis.

On 29 July 2016 at 21:30, Ashwini Bhatia <ash...@ashwinibhatia.com> wrote:

Looking at the plant closely and consulting Col. Collett (Flora Simlensis), I am now of the opinion that this plant is Strobilanthes atropurpureus. I am putting additional photos here to illustrate why;

1. The stalks are square and deeply furrowed.

2. The lower leaves have winged stalks and the upper ones almost sessile.

3. Leaves vary in size on the same plant and are sharply toothed.

4. Bracts are persistent. 

I can also see that one of the sepals is longer than the other four, which Col. Collett doesn’t mention. I recall Dr Wood mentioning that as a characteristic of S. penstemonoides in another thread. 

Please advise if I am again wrong in identifying this as S. atropurpureus.

Thanks.

Ashwini

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On 26 Jul 2016, at 10:45, Ashwini Bhatia <ash...@ashwinibhatia.com> wrote:

[J.M. Garg]

Forwarding  again for Id confirmation or otherwise please.

Some earlier relevant feedback:

Looking at the plant closely and consulting Col. Collett (Flora Simlensis), I am now of the opinion that this plant is Strobilanthes atropurpureus. I am putting additional photos here to illustrate why; 1. The stalks are square and deeply furrowed. 2. The lower leaves have winged stalks and the upper ones almost sessile. 3. Leaves vary in size on the same plant and are sharply toothed. 4. Bracts are persistent.  I can also see that one of the sepals is longer than the other four, which Col. Collett doesn’t mention. I recall Dr Wood mentioning that as a characteristic of S. penstemonoides in another thread.  Please advise if I am again wrong in identifying this as S. atropurpureus. Thanks. Ashwini

Thank you Mr Garg. I am afraid I may still be wrong in identifying this. S. wallichii and S. urticifolia share similar traits. Regards, Ashwini

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[J.M. Garg]

Thanks a lot, Dr. Wood.

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To: "J.M. Garg" <jmg...@gmail.com>

Your plant is Strobilanthes attenuata. Note the cordate leaves with winged stalk and paniculate inflorescence. Please read the article on Strobilanthes attenuata in the attached publication.

regards

John Wood

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[J.M. Garg]

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Date: 5 August 2016 at 09:08
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To: John Wood <jri...@hotmail.com>
Cc: "J.M. Garg" <jmg...@gmail.com>

Thank you Dr Wood for explaining this and for the research article. Being a novice I am sometime afraid that I would not understand a scientific research piece but I greatly enjoyed reading yours. 

Warm regards,

Ashwini

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[DINESH ALBERTSON]

Dear Garg ji and Ashwini Ji,

During January this year, when you had asked for its identity, Dr. Wood (JRI) wrote to me the following:

I think this is Strobilanthes penstemonoides although it is hardly typical as the flowers are not truly "capitellate" and I can't see any sign of the scarious caducous bracteoles. However  the corolla is glabrous, the sepals are glandular with one calyx lobe distinctly longer than the others so I think it must be that species. I would like to congratulate Ashwini Bhatia on the photos of the floral details. These show more clearly than I have ever seen the distinctive ellipsoid/suborbicular anthers, with the shorter anthers recurved, which are defining features of the "Goldfussia" group. 

Strobilanthes pentstemonoides (Nees) T. Anderson in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 9: 477. 1867; C.B. Clarke in Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 460. 1884; Yamazaki in Hara, Fl. Eastern Himalayas 1: 305. 1966; H.J. Chowdhery & al., Materials Fl. Arunachal Pradesh 2: 256.2008. Type: Nepal, Wallich 2340 (iso. K-W, E, K).

Syn.: Goldfussia pentstemonoides Nees; Goldfussia flexuosa Nees; Ruellia capitata Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don (non Goldfussia capitata Nees nec Strobilanthes capitata (Nees) T. Anderson); 

There are two varieties 

Key to varieties

Distinctly anisophyllous; stems and leaves invariably glabrous; leaves sessile specially upper ones; calyx exclusively hairy; corolla lobes hairy on margin; longer filaments hairy…….. var. pentstemonoides

Weakly anisophyllous; stems and leaves invariably hairy; leaves petiolate; calyx glabrous or hairy; corolla lobes not hairy on margin; all staminal filaments glabrous… var. dalhousiana

 

Strobilanthes pentstemonoides (Nees) T. Anderson var. pentstemonoides

Much branched shrubs, 1-3 m high; stems quadrangular, glabrous. Leaves in pairs clearly anisophyllous, ovate-elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, ca 16 x 6 cm, cuneate at base and decurrent on petiole, closely serrate at margin, acuminate at tip, glabrous, coriaceous, lineolate on both surfaces, dark green above and grayesh green beneath; secondary nerves ca 7 pairs arcuate, slightly raised beneath; petioles ca 1.5 cm; upper leaves completely sessile. Inflorescences capitate, subglobose, 1-3 heads enclosing by outer bracts on peduncles, 2-3 flowers in each head. terminal on main branches, much exceeding the subtending leaves, heads 1-2.5 cm, glandular and exactly globular when young; peduncles 2-8 cm long, glabrous, sometimes glandular-hairy, 1-2 together; bracts orbicular, concave, 8 mm-1.2 cm, obtuse, whitenend, glabrous, early caducous; bracteoles absent. Calyx 8 mm in flower, 1.2 cm in fruit, divided nearly to the base, lobes linear-lanceolate, acute at tip, invariably hairy; one of the lobes distinctly longer than others. Corolla 3.5 cm, minutely pubescent on narrow part of the tube, glabrous outside, pale purple, more or less curved at the base of ventricose portion; lobes 5, orbicular, sometimes sparsely long white hairy on margins, emarginated at apex. Stamens 4, included; staminal sheath extends 1/3 of ventricose portion, hairy on the margin; filaments in two heights; shorter filaments recurved, glabrous; longer filaments hairy; anthers 2-celled, muticous at base. Ovary on a disk; style puberulous, subexerted; stigma dilated above; one of the lobes suppressed. Capsules oblong-clavate, 1.5 cm, glandular-pubescent at apex, 4-seeded; seeds ovate, 3 mm, hairy; areoles very small.

Fl.& Fr.: August-March (flowering period varies in different places).

Habitat: Subtropical Himalaya, upto 2000-2500 m from Nepal to Bhutan, frequent, on river banks amidst grasses.

Distrib.: World: Bhutan, India and Nepal. India: Arunachal Pradesh (Tirap and Subansiri), Assam (Sibsagar), Nagaland (Naga hills) and Uttarakhand (Dehra Dun). 

Notes: S. pentstemonoides is known from extensive collections of Nepal. The leaves are very variable in size but are essentially elliptic in shape, flowers in pedunculate, bracteate heads terminal on axillary branchlets. The branchlets are usually relatively long, clearly exceeding the leaves and bearing a pair of relatively persistent leaflets at the branching point. The peduncles are usually glandular-pilose. The only difference between S. pentstemonoides and S. dalhousiana from the Western Himalaya is in the indumentum of the leaves and stem. In the former it is quite glabrous whereas in S.dalhousienana the stems and leaf veins are distinctly hairy.

Also refer to : J.R.I. Wood in Edinb. J. Bot. 51(2): & fig. 1994 & J.R.I. Wood, Acanthaceae in A.J.C. Grierson & D.G. Lal, Fl. Bhutan 2 (3): 2001. 

With best regards. 

DINESH ALBERTSON, W.

Research Scientist 'B'

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[J.M. Garg]

Thanks, Dinesh ji.

I think you are talking of another post by Ashwini ji i.e. Another Strobilanthes? ABJAN01/02

This post has already been identified as below:

"Your plant is Strobilanthes attenuata. Note the cordate leaves with winged stalk and paniculate inflorescence. Please read the article on Strobilanthes attenuata in the attached publication.

regards

John Wood"

[DINESH ALBERTSON]

Ok. Garg ji,

Sorry for the mix-up in a hurry.. You can use the piece of information on Strobilanthes pentstemonoides (Nees) T. Anderson under the relevant thread..

Regarding Strobilanthes attenuata it is closely related to Strobilanthes extensa, S. lachenensis, S. subnudata and S. spicata characterized by terminal spicate inflorescence and calyx with a lengthened median lobe. All species have corollas gently curved, gradually expanding from base and with strangely indeterminate indumentum and capsules glandular pubescent at least at the tip. The other characters include that leaves equal or slightly unequal, sessile or long decurrent and pseudo-petiolate or petiolate, serrate/dentate, green on both surfaces; inflorescence usually terminal, with flowers in pairs on lax spikes, sometimes the spikes turn branched and paniculate; bracts intergrading with upper leaves, the lower most usually sessile and ovate, the upper oblong or elliptic, usually deciduous as the flowers fall; bracteoles distinct from bracts; calyx glandular pilose, the median lobe accrescent and sub spathulate in fruit; fertile stamens 4; seeds pilose and exareolate.

Strobilanthes attenuata (Nees) Nees in DC., Prodr. 11:193. 1847. Type: Probably from India, Wallich 2346 (lecto K-W: Wood, 1994a).

Ruellia attenuata Nees in Wall., Pl. Asiat. Rar. 3: 83. 1832 p.p.; J.R.I.Wood in Edinb. Jour. Bot. 51(2): 221, 230. 1994; Pteracanthus attenuatus (Nees) Bremek. in Verh. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch. Afd. Natuurk., Tweede Sect. 2, 45(1): 199. 1944. Type: as for Strobilanthes attenuata (Nees) Nees

Strobilanthes alata Nees in DC., Prodr. 11: 194. 1847. Type: India, Simla Lady Dalhousie (iso. K, E: Wood, 1994a), nom. Illegit., non Blume (1826).

Strobilanthes reflexa Nees in DC., Prodr. 11: 194. 1847; Pteracanthus reflexus (Nees) Bremek. in Verh. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch. Afd. Natuurk., Tweede Sect. 2, 45(1): 199. 1944. Type: India, Royle (LIV, n.v.).

Strobilanthes newii Bedd. ex C.B. Clarke in Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 464. 1884; Gamble, Fl. Madras: 1043. 1924 (repr. ed. 2: 731. 1957); P. Venu, Strobilanthes Penin. India: 157 & t. 38 (p. 158) (illeg. nom.).-Meckenzia newii (Beddome ex C.B. Clarke) Bremek. in Verh. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch. Afd. Natuurk., Tweede Sect. 2, 45(1): 183. 1944. Types: India, Karnataka, Western Mysore, Manjeerabad, Beddome s.n. (BM); Beddome 40 & 106 (MH!);

Strobilanthes urticifolia Wall. ex O. Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 499. 1891. Pteracanthus urticifolius (Wall. ex O. Kuntze) Bremek. in Verh. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch. Afd. Natuurk., Tweede Sect. 2, 45(1): 199. 1944. Type: Wallich 2346 (iso. K-W).

Strobilanthes extensus Bedd., Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient.: 47. t. 202. 1868-1874, non Nees 1847.

Small shrubs, erect, ca 1 m high, glandular hairy; branches quadrangular, puberulous, glandular-hairy above, glabrescent below. Leaves in pairs unequal, ovate, ca 12.5 x 7.5 cm, rounded or cordate at base, prominently serrate at margin, acute at tip, scabrous-hispid above, pubescent beneath, distinctly lineolate on both surfaces; petioles length variable, ca 1 cm long, winged upward (upper leaves sessile); secondary nerves 7-8 pairs. Inflorescences terminal much interrupted spikes, early panicled, hairy, 15-25 cm long; flowers nearly all opposite, distant; flower buds glandular hairy at tip; bracts small, linear-oblong, ca 6 mm long, smaller than calyx lobes, early caducous; bracteoles linear, much smaller than calyx, caducous, subscarious, ciliate, glandular-hairy. Calyx with a small tube, deeply divided; lobes unequal, linear, ca 1.2 cm long, one of them longer than others, rounded or obtuse at apex, ciliate on the margin, glandular-hairy. Corolla curved, deep purple, tubular-ventricose, ca 3 cm long; tube a little contracted at base, much smaller than ventricose portion, hardly longer than the calyx; ventricose portion much inflated, 2 hairy lines within; curved above, 5-lobed; lobes orbicular and veined. Stamens 4; sheath extending to the middle of ventricose portion, glabrous/slightly hairy; filaments glabrous; inner two shorter, crossing the longer filaments. Ovary glandular, puberulous at apex; style ca 2.6 cm long, glabrous or slightly hairy below. Capsules narrowly elliptic, ca 1.5 cm long, glandular-pubescent, 4-seeded; seeds ovate, ca 4 mm, hairy with a small areole.

Fl. & Fr.: Less known about flowering period or periodicity.

Habitat: . W. Temperate Himalaya, 3500 m, common; from Kashmir to Kumaon, In grassland on mountainous slopes, 2500 m Tibet; also grow in gardens as cultivated species in Karnataka

Distrib.: World: Afganistan, China, India, Nepal, North Pakistan and Tibet.

Note: Wallich 2345 cited by Nees was excluded by Wood (l.c.). as it is Echinacanthus attenuates Nees.

Dr. Ashwini I wish you might be able to confirm and fix the species identity based on the above details.If you have problems anywhere regarding the mismatch of description, you may reply to me again.

Regards

[J.M. Garg]

Thanks a lot, Dinesh ji.

[ash...@ashwinibhatia.com]

Many thanks Dinesh Ji.

Regards,

Ashwini