Acanthaceae Week: Rungia repens from Morni Hill tract, Haryana

[Gurcharan Singh]

Rungia repens (L.) Nees, Pl. asiat. rar. 3:110. 1832 

syn: Justicia repens L.

A procumbent much branched herb with oblong-lanceolate up to 5 cm long leaves; flowers in close one-sided spike with 4-farious bracts; corolla white with purple or rose spots. Common in Morni hill tract among shrubs and forest shade. Photographed on April 9, 2011.

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[JM Garg]

I think this should not be Justicia repens with bracts appearing to be dimorphic and not appearing to be uniform.

[J.M. Garg]

This may be Justicia concinna as per images and details herein.

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[Gurcharan Singh]

I am unable to understand logic. Justicia concinna is a name published only in 2014. It does not figure TPL or World Flora Online. Kew Database Plants of the World Online treats it synonym of Rungia elegans Dalzell & A.Gibson. These are the three major databases.

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[J.M. Garg]

This as per:  

Justicia concinna J. R. I. Wood (Replaced name: Rungia elegans Dalzell in Dalzell & Gibson, Bombay Fl. 196. 1861, non Justicia elegans P. Beauv.) as per New Names and Combinations in Indian Acanthaceae by John R. I. Wood- Novon: A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature 23(3):385-395. 2014;

Catalogue of life is also following this. POWO is just following The Plant List Ver. 1.1, where there is no entry at WCSP (Kew), giving very bad impression of Kew.

[Gurcharan Singh]

Thanks Garg ji.

Dr. Gurcharan Singh

Retired  Associate Professor
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[J.M. Garg]

On further scrutiny of all the posts, I take it Justicia pectinata only.

[J.M. Garg]

Taking it as Rungia parviflora var. muralis (Nees) C.B.Clarke with spikes very dense, barren bracts ovate acute hardly longer than the fertile, as per Flora of British India as per discussions in another thread at Sorting Rungia species 

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