Hi Prof. Singh, I have seen and I have opined. You in your infinite wisdom have decreed otherwise. I, therefore, have to defer to your expertise. Be that as it may ...Dr. Almeida writes '" Leaves ....densely lineolate on both sides,the upper side and the nerves beneath rough with short stiff hair..... . Flowers in pedunculate, ovoid, viscid spikes ....solitary and axillary, or in branched [often ternate] cymes which are axillary or terminally clustered.... Mr.Ingalhalikar in his 'Flowers of the Sayadris' writes " Leaves opposite.....densely hairy.... With regards, Neil Soares.
--- On Sat, 8/20/11, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Fwd: [efloraofindia:77709] 19042011GS1 for ID from Morni hills To: "Neil Soares" <drneilsoa...@yahoo.com> Cc: "efloraofindia" <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com>, "J.M. Garg" <jmga...@gmail.com>, vinayak...@gmail.com, vijay.botan...@gmail.com, giby.kuriak...@gmail.com, adava...@gmail.com, noorunnisa.be...@frlht.org, navendu.p...@gmail.com, balkara...@gmail.com, nidhansingh...@gmail.com, neerajsan...@gmail.com, tabi...@gmail.com, sahanipan...@gmail.com, prajnes...@gmail.com, parma...@sancharnet.in, amitci...@gmail.com, alokisabe...@gmail.com, tanaybos...@gmail.com Date: Saturday, August 20, 2011, 6:48 PM Neil ji Thelepaepale ixiocephala (Strobilanthes ixiocephalus) according to FBI has nearly glabrous leaves (not woolly beneath) and flowers in heads. Not in this plant. -- 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 Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Neil Soares <drneilsoa...@yahoo.com> wrote: Hi, This looks like Thelepaepale ixiocephala to me. Regards, Neil Soares. --- On Sat, 8/20/11, J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: From: J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> Subject: Fwd: [efloraofindia:77693] 19042011GS1 for ID from Morni hills To: "efloraofindia" <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> Cc: vinayak...@gmail.com, vijay.botan...@gmail.com, giby.kuriak...@gmail.com, adava...@gmail.com, noorunnisa.be...@frlht.org, navendu.p...@gmail.com, balkara...@gmail.com, nidhansingh...@gmail.com, neerajsan...@gmail.com, singh...@gmail.com, tabi...@gmail.com, sahanipan...@gmail.com, prajnes...@gmail.com, parma...@sancharnet.in, amitci...@gmail.com, alokisabe...@gmail.com, tanaybos...@gmail.com Date: Saturday, August 20, 2011, 1:01 PM Resurfacing again for ID Earlier feedback Dinesh ji................................ some Ruellia-like member of Acanthaceae. Vijayasankar ji.......................Any Strobilanthes species? Singh ji......................................it looks like Strobilanthes My search in Floras and net did not yield any species reported from North, but wild search from Net and finally FBI landed me to S. gossypinus T. Anders. reported from mountains of S. Deccan and Mysore. Perhaps you can comment on this. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> Date: 19 April 2011 08:33 Subject: [efloraofindia:67497] 19042011GS1 for ID from Morni hills To: efloraofindia <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> 19042011GS1 for ID from Morni hills, growing on open hill slopes, photographed on April 9, 2011 Herb with opposite tomentose leaves, up to 12 cm long; flowers blue, about 1.5 cm long, in clusters. -- 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/ -- With regards, J.M.Garg (jmga...@gmail.com) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. 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: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1680 members & 75,000 messages on 31/7/11) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 5000 species)
