Rubiaceae Week: Kohautia coccinea from Chakrata Tiger fall area

[Gurcharan Singh]

Kohautia coccinea Royle, Jll. Bot. Him. Mount. 241. t. 53. f. 1. 1835. 

syn: Oldenlandia coccinea (Royle) Hook.f.; Oldenlandia macrodonta Baker; Pentas modesta Baker

Small annual herb, erect, slender, reaching 40 cm, minutely bristly; leaves few, distant linear-lanceolate, 2-5 cm long; flowers red, pink to orange, on lax few-flowered cyme, sometimes solitary, 5-7 mm across; pedicel short elongating to 6 mm in fruit; calyx lobes linear, 2-5 mm long, corolla tube 4-6 mm long, expanded above, lobes 4, sometimes 3, 2-3 mm long, 2-3 mm long; capsule oblong to globose, 4-6 mm long with a minute beak.

Common in Tiger fall area of Chakrata, photographed in September.

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[Balkar Singh]

Beautiful!! Sir You got for petal specimens also, mines were with only three

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Dr Balkar Singh
Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology
Arya P G College, Panipat
Haryana-132103
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[Dinesh Valke]

Many thanks for this upload, Gurcharan ji.
Balkar ji too has uploaded this plant; new for me.

Regards.
Dinesh

[Prashant Awale]

Really interesting upload. Yes Dinesh, yesterday Balkar ji had also shared this.
Regards
Prashant

[Nidhan Singh]

Thanks Gurcharan Sir for uploading "find of the day"...
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Dr. Nidhan Singh
Department of Botany
I.B. (PG) College
Panipat-132103 Haryana
Ph.: 09416371227