Rubiaceae week:: Rubia cordifolia at Manali and Bhimashankar

[Prashant Awale]

Dear Friends,

Sharing photographs of Rubia cordifolia from Manali and Bhimashankar.

Family: Rubiaceae

Flowers seen at Manali were red where as one from Bhimashankar were greenish.

Regards
Prashant

[Prasad Dash]

Graet snap again.

Regards

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Prasad Kumar Dash
Ecologist, Odisha, India
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[Dinesh Valke]

Many thanks Prashant for sharing the eye-opening red-coloured flower of this species.
Regards.
Dinesh

[Prashant Awale]

Thanks Prasad ji,   and Dinesh.
Regards
Prashant

[Gurcharan Singh]

Thanks Dinesh ji for bringing this out for discussion again. The problem has been that all three species have mostly been treated as one species only but now that all three are treated as distinct and looking at the key in Flora of china, this plant has red petals could be Rubia manjith. The last two photographs, however, belong to a different plant.

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SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
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[Dinesh Valke]

Yes, the last 3 photographs belong to Bhimashankar WLS.
The first 3 bearing red flowers are of Manali.

Dear Prashant, you could now be having Rubia manjith in your collection.

Regards.
Dinesh

[Prashant Awale]

Yes Dear Dinesh and Thanks to Gurcharan Singh ji for sorting out this issue. Actually in one of my earlier post, i remember the one from Manali with reddish flowers was identified as R. cordifolia. Good that Gurcharan Singh ji has given fresh look to this post. Thanks a lot.

Regards
Prashant