Dipteracanthus or Ruellia from Lohari Panipat for id -26042011-BSA-1

[Balkar Arya]

Dear All

the present sp is medicinally important. this resembles with Dipteracanthus prostratus (Poir.) Nees.

this is a large spreading shrub in a roadside area flowers pale violet solitary axillary corolla caducous

In http://www.theplantlist.org this name is in unresolved list. This may also be 

Ruellia makoyana Closon

pls help to resolve this id
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Dr Balkar Singh
Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology
Arya P G College, Panipat
Haryana-132103
09416262964

[tanay bose]

Hi Balkar Ji,

I believe this plant is Dipteracanthus prostratus.

Regards

Tanay

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[Balkar Arya]

Yes Tanay Thanks for confirmation, i also think so but this name is still not resolved and no much information available. if anyone make available protologue of this with herbarium specimen images. It can be clarified more then.

[Gurcharan Singh]

I think we photographed similar plant from Morni Hills. I am uploading it separately

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[Gurcharan Singh]

In fact I have already uploaded this on 24th April as possibly Ruellia under the title 

24042011GS2 perhaps Ruellia for ID from Tikkar tal Lake, Morni

https://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=en&shva=1#sent/12f85eecc01c4c80

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Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297  Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ 

[Gurcharan Singh]

Identified in my thread as Dipteracanthus prostratus

https://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=en&shva=1#sent/12f85eecc01c4c80

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Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297  Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ 

[Balkar Arya]

Thanks Sir

[Balkar Arya]

More pics shot recently from village Khukhrana (Panipat) 220 mts from a roadside area, wildly grown there

[Giby Kuriakose]

Nice pictures depicting most of the characters of the species Dipteracanthus prostratus of Acanthaceae family.

 

Regards,

Giby

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[Balkar Arya]

Thanks Giby Ji