Limnophila indica

tiny herb ID from Hooghly 29/10/12 sk3:

Your keys are useful for differentiating the Limnophila plants.

Your keys are very interesting.
But as usual I have one objection.
This colour purple is perceived by different people in different sense. now rose purple, pale purple, blue purple can be due to sunlight and other weather conditions too. Infact to me all these are blue or purple.
Please remove the colors and make the keys again. There are major differences in leaves also you may incorporate that part too.
But for sure your contribution is very important for us.
Best wishes for more of such wonderful work.

I dont know… hence the question
Please tell me … do taxonomy experts deny colors in flowers?
if yes… please give me some citations that I can access easily or better yet a pdf or two … for my education and the others if they so desire..
this is a sincere request, not an affront…
so please tell me/us

Some of very basic examples are Catharanthus roseus, what ever colour may be all are same species.
Eulophia spectabilis: yellow, white, red, magenta: all are same species.
Colour can be taken into account if it is found in distinct zones. For example if White Eulophia spectabilis is found in western ghats but red is found in Himalayas then taxonomically you can say that they are two species or atleast varieties of same species. But both colours are found at all places, hence all are same species.
In the present context my point was how to differentiate between light blue, pale purple, dark purple, pinkish purple, greenish purple. Such things are not consistent. A plant growing in sunlight in some species may be darker but in some species they become paler. So COLOURS DONT FORM THE BASIS OF SPECIES DEMARCATION, but they may play important role in some particular species.

I agree, … Another case in point is colors of Mushrooms… colors are only a guide but they can achieve very many different hues … So are the water lilies that we find around here… hues ad infinatum…
Hydrangea flowers change colors on pH or aluminum/mag addition to soil
BUT IN MEDICINE.. Addisons disease is darkening of the skin to black, Acanthosis nigricans is Black…  etc etc etc
very specific colors…
So take home message…
no hard and fast rules… at least about colors…

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Scrophulariaceae Fortnight: Limnophila gratioloides from Pune:: -PKA5: : : Attachments (3). 3 posts by 2 authors.
This small herb was photographed at the edge of the “Pashan Lake, in Pune”.
Bot. name: Limnophila gratioloides
(Family: Scrophulariaceae).
(Herb was hardly 6 to 8 inch high, leaves whorled)
Local name: Turti

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Excellent photographs of a tiny plant.
Corolla bilabiate
…Capsule opening by valves.
…Perfect stamens more than 2 (4 in this)
…Calyx not winged or keeled.
…Corolla throat and lip not with palate; anther cells distinct
…(Corolla throat and lip with palate; anther cells confluent at apex in Lindenbergia and ….Mimulus)
… Filaments appendaged; seeds rugose
… Anther cells stipitate; capsule 4 valved :::: Limnophila

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Limnophila indica is the accepted name as per the plant List and L. gratioloides is a synonym.
I had posted similar plant from Pune which was also IDed as L. indica.
I was checking the key for Limnophila.
Limnophila aquatica and Limnophila indica are very close species.
Stems 1-2; corolla 1-2 cm long or more … … … … L.aquatica
Stems 3-8; corolla 0.5-1 cm long … … … … … … ..L.indica
Further in the description of aerial leaves: those of L.aquatica are opposite or 3-4 verticillate. which is the finding here.
Can it be L.aquatica then??
Size wise this as well as my plant is more likely to be L.indica though.

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Limnophila heterophylla??040110-PKA1 :

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Scrophulariaceae fortnight :: Limnophila indica at Goa :: DV18 : 3 images. 2 posts by 2 authors.

Limnophila indica (L.) Druce SN Feb-14 : Attachments (2). 1 post by 1 author.
Limnophila indica (L.) Druce, Fam: Scrophulariaceae,  herb near water bodies,
South Chennai 27/02/2011

Date: 9th January 2015
Place: Aralam Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala
Habit: Herb
Habitat: Growing near a stream

This is possibly Limnophila indica (L.) Druce.

Please let me know about the smell of the plant May be this is Limnophila indica.

Thank you for the ID.
Unfortunately cannot find out the smell of the plant at this point. Will make sure to do so the next time I come across the same.

Limnophila indica :: Baba Budangiri :: 14 NOV 2016 :: DVDEC70  :4 posts by 3 authors. 4 images.

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Nepali name of Limnophila indica : 3 posts by 2 authors.
Please help with Nepali name for Limnophila indica, if any.

… had sent me response long back – that he could not get to any name in his resources.
I missed forwarding the mail to efi.

DV :: 26NOV11 – 1229 :: ¿ Limnophila heterophylla ? near CBD Hills: ID please.

Place: base of CBD Hills (~ 60 ft asl), Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Time: November 26, 2011 at 12.29pm
Habit: small erect / decumbent herb,
Habitat: growing wild on periphery of pond.
Flower size: about 8 mm

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This is L. indica.L. heterophylla is a submerged aquatic plant. It has 2 types of leaves; upper leaves are lanceolate acute and the submerged leaves are linear pinnatifid. Latter is found in ponds at higher elevations.

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[EfloraIndia_221212PD02_Limnophila indica_Flora of Odisha:
another scrophulariaceae member whose image has been taken from Ranpur, Odisha: Limnophila indica

Name of the species: Limnophila indica

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Place of collection: Ranpur, Nayagarh, Odisha

Habit: Herb
Habitat: Wild, Swamps and Wet grasslands, Agricultural fields

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This is my first catch of Genus Limnophila apart from aromatica, we have aquatica, rugosa, repens and others. I wl share the other species soon.

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Very nice pictures of Limnophila indica.
Now family : Plantaginaceae.
Check my post of same species of Jan 2010.

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Gujarati names of Limnophila indica : 6 posts by 3 authors.
Please help validate the Gujarati names tarati and purti for Limnophila indica.

Here are two references:

• Floristic account of Aquatic and Wetland Angiosperms of Sabarkantha, District Gujarat – NB Patel, KB Patel
• Floristic status and its conservation in the forests of the north Gujarat region (NGR) Gujarat, India – S Rajendra Kumar, S Kalavathy
• there are few more articles on internet, which show the same two names.

… in Facebook group, helped me with a cropped picture of some publication of Gujarat Forest Department  (attached) … which shows તરેટી and પૂર્તી

These words do not show up any results in Google search.

The name in Marathi is तुरटी turati which is also a name for alum … though I am not sure how the name connects to Limnophila, unless the colony of Limnophila plants keeps the waters clean where they reside !!

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As far as i know and my knowledge of Gujarati permits, the Forestry Deptt’s nomenclature is correct.
તરેટી and પૂર્તી  may not figure in Google Search as equivalents of Limnophila indica. but they are correct.

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Thanks very very much … for the validation.

Oh !!! that will be wonderful to happen. My best wishes for this and such ventures.

Seen this small herb  on the moist grass land.  It was found to be spreading like a weed covering approx. area of 10m x 10m..
Location: Dehri, Murbad
Date/Time: 15-01-2013 / 02:00PM
Bot. name: Limnophila sp.??? (ID please)

Limnophila species in efi so far with Keys

This will be Limnophila repens as per Flora of China  FoC illustration (Flowers solitary in leaf axils or in terminal or axillary racemes as per Flora of China)  Flora of Peninsular India

I think more close to Limnophila indica as per images and details herein and as per comparative images at Limnophila

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Limnophila aquatica for validation: 2 high res. images.
Request for validation of Limnophila aquatica from Bilaspur. Photographed in November, 2022.

Limnophila sessiliflora (Vahl) Blume ??

To me appears to be Limnophila indica (Linnaeus) Druce as per keys in FoC and FoC illustration.