Anurag Ji, *Rungia pectinata* (L.) Nees is very common here. I have three uploads - https://groups.google.com/d/msg/indiantreepix/J4zwVLDYNKI/S9Kgcn1QsgcJ, out of which two undetermined - https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/a/acanthaceae/rungia/rungia-pectinata-1 ! But, I assure you all three uploads are of same species.
This plant grows everywhere, roadside, moist places, old walls..... And their form vary a lot according to their habitat and growth stage. Their spikes look differently at different stages and in different habitat. But, bract characters are same. Thank you Regards surajit On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Anurag Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
