Acanthaceae for id 180310MK2
Muthu Karthick
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Date/Time- |
19-01-2010 / 11:00 AM |
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Location- Place, Altitude, GPS- |
Erode Dist.; ca. 300msl |
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Habitat- Garden/ Urban/ Wild/ Type- |
Fallow lands |
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Plant Habit- |
small shrub |
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Height/Length- |
Up to 1 metre |
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Leaves Type/ Shape/ Size- |
Leaves ovate; up to 6cm long |
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Inflorescence Type/ Size- |
terminal raceme; |
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Flowers Size/ Colour/ Calyx/ Bracts- |
pink-violet colored; ca.3 cm across |
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Fruits Type/ Shape/ Size Seeds- |
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Other information- |
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Muthu Karthick, N
Junior Research Fellow
Care Earth Trust
Chennai - 61
www.careearthtrust.org
tanay bose
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Dinesh Valke
Regards.
R. Vijayasankar
R. Vijayasankar
National Center for Natural Products Research,
The University of Mississippi,
Oxford, MS-38677, USA.
Pardeshi S.
Asystasia gangetica (L.) T. Anders in Thwates, Enum. 235, 1860;
Almeida, Fl. Mah. 4: 7, 2003; Singh et al. Fl. Mah. St. 2: 596, 2001.
Synonyms: Justicia gangetica L., Amoen. Acad. 4: 299, 1759. A.
violacea Dalz. in Kew. J. Bot. 2: 137, 1850. A. crispata Bth. in
Linnaea 24: 647, 1851. A. coromandeliana Wt. ex Nees in Wall. Pl.
Asiat. Rar. 3: 89, 1832. Cl. in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 483,
1884; Cooke, Fl. Pres. Bombay 2: 566, 1958 (Repr.). A. zeylanica Koeng
ex Roxb., Fl. Ind. 3: 42, 1832.
Common names: Lavana valli.
regards
On Mar 18, 9:26 pm, "R. Vijayasankar" <vijay.botan...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Agree with Dinesh ji. Its Asystasia gangetica.
>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Dinesh Valke <dinesh.va...@gmail.com>wrote:
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> > ... me thinks it to be *Asystasia gangetica* ... commonly known as:
> > asystasia, Ganges primrose, Chinese violet, creeping foxglove • Kannada:
> > ಮೆದ್ಧೆ ಸೊಪ್ಪು meddhe soppu • Malayalam: valli-upu-dali • Marathi: लवण वल्ली
> > lavana valli • Sanskrit: लवण वल्ली lavana valli • Tamil: மிதிகீரை miti kirai
>
> > Regards.
>
> > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:11 PM, tanay bose <tanaybos...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Dear Muthu ji,
> >> I hope the plant in the attached photo is ....................
>
> >> *Ruellia tuberosa L.,* Sp. Pl. 635. 1753. Maheshw., Fl. Delhi 272. 1963;
> >> Stewart in Nasir & Ali, l.c. 678; Rani & Mathew in Mathew, Fl. Tamal. Carn.
> >> 3(1): 1197. 1982.
> >> An erect, up to 60 (-70) cm tall herb with stout, 4-angled stems, swollen
> >> and purplish at the nodes, tender parts sparsely hairy. Roots slender,
> >> elongated, tuberous. Leaves with up to 2 cm long petiole; lamina
> >> oblong-obovate to oblanceolate, 5-9 (-10) x 2-4 cm, shining, basally cuneate
> >> to attenuate, entire to ± undulate, obtuse to somewhat acute, often
> >> mucronulate. Flowers shortly pedicellate, blue-violet, showy, 5-5.5 cm long,
> >> c. 3.5 cm across, solitary or in 1-3-flowered, terminal or axillary cymes;
> >> bracts and bracteoles linear-lanceolate, c. 5 mm long. Calyx lobes ± equal,
> >> linear, 1.3-2 cm long, ciliate, acute. Corolla pubescent outside, tube c.
> >> 3.5 cm long, abruptly narrowed at base, limb 5-lobed, lobes ± equal, ovate,
> >> c. 1.5 cm long, patent. Stamens with oblong-sagittate, c. 4 mm long,
> >> puberulous anthers. Ovary oblong, c. 4 mm long, glabrous; style 2.3-2.5 cm
> >> long. Capsule oblong, 2.2-3 cm long, glabrous or scabrescent, 24-28-seeded,
> >> minutely beaked at tip. Seeds flattened, orbicular, c. 2 mm across, hairy.
>
> >> Regards
> >> Tanay
>
> >> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Muthu Karthick <nmk....@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> >>> Dear all,
> >>> Please id this Acantaceae member.
>
> >>> *Date/Time-*
>
> >>> 19-01-2010 / 11:00 AM
>
> >>> *Location- Place, Altitude, GPS-*
>
> >>> Erode Dist.; ca. 300msl
>
> >>> *Habitat-** Garden**/ Urban/ Wild/ Type-*
>
> >>> Fallow lands
>
> >>> *Plant Habit-*
>
> >>> small shrub
>
> >>> *Height/Length-*
>
> >>> Up to 1 metre
>
> >>> *Leaves Type/ Shape/ Size-*
>
> >>> Leaves ovate; up to 6cm long
>
> >>> *Inflorescence Type/ Size-*
>
> >>> terminal raceme;
>
> >>> *Flowers Size/ Colour/ Calyx/ Bracts-*
>
> >>> pink-violet colored; ca.3 cm across
>
> >>> *Fruits Type/ Shape/ Size Seeds- *
>
> >>> *Other information-*
>
> >>> --
> >>> Muthu Karthick, N
> >>> Junior Research Fellow
> >>> Care Earth Trust
> >>> Chennai - 61
> >>>www.careearthtrust.org
>
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