Thank you Tabish ji for updating me about the name of the plant. Regards Tanay
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Prashant awale <pkaw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Tabish, > Here is the reply which i had received from Mr J.R.I. wood (John Wood), > Oxford. > > "Plant is *Strobilanthes auriculata*. Note broad bracts covered in long > hairs and sessile leaves. > A very nice photo!. > > regards > Prashant > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Tabish <tabi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear Tanay, >> The flower at FOI, named Koutruk Lei, has proved to be really difficult >> to identify, simply because not much was known to us apart from this poor >> quality picture taken at a flower show, where the claim about the long >> flowering period was mentioned (has not been verified). Dimple's plant looks >> to me the same as what we have - so I am happy to have clear photographs and >> more info on it. >> I was very excited at first, to know that this has been identified. >> However, in your description, the flowers are 2-2.8 cm long, and the bracts >> are 2 cm long, lanceshaped. So, the bracts are nearly as long as the >> flowers. On the other hand, in Dimple's pics, the bracts (forming spikes of >> overlapping green bracts) are much smaller than the flowers, and are >> roundish or heart-shaped in shape. >> I am attaching a drawing of *Strobilanthes quadrifaria *for >> comparison. So, to me it appears that this should be some other species of >> Strobilanthes. >> I should also mention that the genus Strobilanthes has many species >> with long gaps between flowering - Kurinji and Karvy are two well-known >> examples. >> Best wishes >> - Tabish >> >> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:07 PM, tanay bose <tanaybos...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Dear all, >>> The plant in the attached photo is *Strobilanthes quadrifaria **(Wall. >>> ex Nees)* belonging to the family Acanthaceae. In the Flowers of India >>> site it has been put under the unidentifies section calling it "Kortuk Lei" >>> in Manipuri. >>> >>> Description of the plant : >>> >>> Undershrub (0.2–)1–1.5 m high, stems pilose with large-celled hairs. >>> Leaves equal in >>> each pair, petiolate; petioles (0.3–)1.5–4 cm long, pilose; blades >>> 5–11×2–6 cm, elliptic to >>> ovate, acute, base attenuate and ± decurrent onto the petiole, margin >>> crenulate-dentate, rather >>> densely pilose with large white hairs on both surfaces and especially on >>> the veins. >>> Inflorescence of shortly pedunculate axillary and terminal spikes densely >>> covered with long, >>> silky, white large-celled hairs, spikes 2–5 cm long, ca. 1 cm wide, very >>> compact; peduncles >>> 0.5–1 cm long. Bracts lanceolate, ca. 2×0.6 cm, pilose with white >>> large-celled hairs; >>> bracteoles ovate, ca. 5×2 mm, pilose with white large-celled hairs >>> especially towards the >>> apex. Calyx 8–10 mm long, silky, with white large-celled hairs, 5-lobed >>> to 1 mm of the base, >>> lobes linear, acuminate, ciliate. Corolla in bud puberulent, in flower >>> purple, 2–2.8 cm long, >>> straight, the tube 2 mm wide at the base, then gradually widened to 6–8 >>> mm, outside glabrous >>> except for the lobes, inside glabrous except for hairs retaining the >>> style, lobes ovate, rounded, >>> 4×4 mm; stamens 4, didynamous, filaments pilose, the longer pair ca. 8 mm >>> long, the shorter >>> pair ca. 4 mm long; anthers included, the thecae oblong, glabrous, 3×1 >>> mm. Style ca. 2 cm >>> long, glabrous except for pilose at the base, ovary glabrous. Capsule not >>> seen. >>> Regards >>> Tanay >>> >>> *Garg Ji Please forward this mail to Tabish Ji from "Flowers of India " >>> He can use this information if need . >>> * >>> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:54 PM, J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Forwarding again for Id assistance pl. >>>> Earlier relevant feedback: >>>> “... *some species of Strobilanthes*?” from Dinesh ji. >>>> >>>> “............*looks like Perilepta auriculata from Acanthaceae* >>>> thanks >>>> N.S.Dungriyal IFS” >>>> >>>> “Thanks for trying but it *did not match*. I went through The flowers >>>> of >>>> >>>> India & I found it in the list of unidentified flowers. Would you >>>> >>>> please help me identify it. Regards dolly” >>>> >>>> "Thanks Mr.Garg I have little more information regarding the flower.*In >>>> the flowersofindia this flower is unidentified >>>> * & in the details it says that it flowers once in nine years which >>>> could be true but I have been seeing it flowering for two to three years in >>>> the same spot & it is exactly the same flower shown in the unidentified >>>> pics >>>> of flowersofindia. Regards Dimple. " >>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>> From: dimple bhati <whis...@gmail.com> >>>> Date: 3 January 2010 15:14 >>>> Subject: [indiantreepix:25911] Hairy looking blue flower for Id >>>> To: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi friends I have seen this flower growing in the creeks of the dried >>>> river bed & close to the nallah in MP. It grows up to 2 to 2.5 ft in a >>>> creeping way but the flower always upwards, it grows from March till April. >>>> I am pretty sure that it is not nilgonda. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "indiantreepix" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to indiantree...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<indiantreepix%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >>>> . >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> With regards, >>>> J.M.Garg (jmga...@gmail.com) >>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 >>>> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >>>> Image Resource of more than a thousand species of Birds, Butterflies, >>>> Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): >>>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg >>>> For learning about Indian Flora, visit/ join Google e-group- >>>> Efloraofindia:http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "efloraofindia" group. >>>> >>>> To post to this group, send email to indiantree...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<indiantreepix%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >>>> . >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Tanay Bose >>> +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) >>> 9830439691(Mobile) >>> 9674221362 (Mobile) >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Tabish Qureshi Phone: 011-26981753, 32959320(res) >> Department of Physics Email: tabish...@jmi.ac.in >> Jamia Millia Islamia Webpage: http://tabish.freeshell.org >> New Delhi - 110025. >> http://www.jamia-physics.net >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "efloraofindia" group. >> To post to this group, send email to indiantree...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<indiantreepix%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. >> > > -- Tanay Bose +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) 9830439691(Mobile) 9674221362 (Mobile) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. 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