Thank you very much for narrowing down sir. *Rungia pectinata* it is. Thank you!
On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 10:28 PM, surajit koley < [email protected]> wrote: > Garg Sir, I find our eFI database of *Rungia* is of very little use and > very confusing, it doesn't help at all. > > Anurag Ji, > > I copy what Haines, in his book BoBO, recorded about *Rungia parviflora* Nees > - "common weed... erect in grassy places ..... prostrate in pastures ... > all specimens from our area appear to belong to the variety *pectinata* > ....." > > Sir Prain thinks we have (1) *Rungia parviflora* Nees var. *pectinata* and > (2) *Rungia repens* Nees, in our region of Bengal. > > I haven't found *R. repens* yet, where flowers are 0.3 inch (7.5 mm). > Flowers of *R. parviflora* are under 0.15 inch long. > > Leaves of *R. parviflora* can be linear to lanceolate to elliptic. > > Your species is *Rungia parviflora* surely. But which var.? I think it is > not the type species (barren bracts are not cuspidate in type species). So, > we are left with var. *pectinata* and var. *muralis*. In *muralis* both > sterile and fertile bracts are of same size. > > I think your species is *Rungia parviflora* var. *pectinata*, the current > accepted name of which is *Rungia pectinata* (L.) Nees. > > Thank you > Regards > surajit > > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 1:28 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Forwarding again for Id assistance please. >> >> Some earlier relevant feedback: >> >> Rungia >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/a/acanthaceae/rungia> >> - species in eFIoraofindia (with details/ keys from published papers/ >> regional floras/ FRLHT/ FOI/ efloras/ books etc., where ever available) >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Anurag Sharma <[email protected]> >> Date: 9 February 2015 at 22:38 >> Subject: [efloraofindia:215208] ANFEB27 Please identify this Rungia sp. >> To: [email protected] >> >> >> Family: Acanthaceae >> Date: December 25th 2014 >> Place: Agumbe, Karnataka >> Habit: Herb >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "efloraofindia" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> >> The whole world uses my Image Resource >> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a >> thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. >> (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as >> per Creative Commons license attached with each image. >> >> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, >> please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group >> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the >> world- more than 2400 members & 2,00,000 messages on 9.9.14) or Efloraofindia >> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species >> database of more than 10,000 species & 2,00,000 images). Winner of >> Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. >> >> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >> India'. >> > > -- Anurag N. Sharma BSc. (CBZ) 2nd Year St. Josephs College Bangalore -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
