Here is link for comparison with L. grandiflora http://www.aperturenepal.com/index.php?page=19#gallery/ROOFING_29D07F50_DSC_1140.jpg
<http://www.aperturenepal.com/index.php?page=19#gallery/ROOFING_29D07F50_DSC_1140.jpg> -- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:23 PM, manudev madhavan < [email protected]> wrote: > Nice catch sir ji, > Another new plant for me.. Thanks for sharing > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I have a feeling that this is the same plant which is represented at FOI >> as Lindenbergia grandiflora. L. grandiflora is supposed to be a plant much >> more densely and spreading hairy with flowers almost 2.5-3 cm long with >> corolla 2-3 times as long as calyx, and also leaves may be up to 20 cm long. >> In our plants the plants are appressed hairy to almost glabrous, leaves >> smaller than 6 am and corolla 10-12 mm long, tube slightly longer than >> calyx. >> There is some some confusion whether our plant should be called as L. >> macrostachya Benth. (Kew Plant List considers it as unresolved name) or L. >> philippensis Benth. which is reported from Nepal Himalayas but without >> citation of synonym. Flora of British India considers this as a variety of >> L. philippensis with shorter petioles and more glabrous parts. >> >> My photograph number 4 looks to be the same but has much interrupted >> inflorescence with distant flowers, or may represent early stage of the same >> plant. Your view please. >> >> -- >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> Retired Associate Professor >> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> >> > > > -- > *Manudev K Madhavan* > Junior Research Fellow > Systematic & Floristic Lab, > Department of Botany, > Centre for Postgraduate Studies & Research > St. Joseph's College, Devagiri > Kozhikode- 673 008 > Mob: 9496470738 > >
