Iochroma cyaneum (Lindl.) G.H.M. Lawr. & J.M. Tucker, Baileya 3: 66 66 1955. (Syn: Habrothamnus cyaneus Lindl.; Iochroma lanceolatum Miers; Iochroma weberbaueri Dammer; Meyenia cyanea (Lindl.) Heynh.);
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Ecuador to Peru; Introduced into: Dominican Republic, Haiti, Kenya, Tanzania as per POWO; . Mexico (I), Peru (I), Ecuador, Haiti (I), Dominican Republic (I), Bolivia (c), Sri Lanka (I), Kenya (I) as per CoL; . I saw this shrub planted as ornamental in a street of Ooty, Nilgiris, TN.
Could this be Scrophulariaceae? Date: 19 Sep 2011
Altitude: 2000 M ASL
Height of Shrub: 3 metres
Leaf: c. 15cm long
Flower: c. 5 x 0.8 cm For me the plant looks like Violet Churcu. Iochroma cyaneum. Could this be Iochroma coccinea Scheid. of Solanaceae. Yes it is Iochroma cyaneum
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