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Tournefortia montana Loureiro (E. Himalaya to China (Yunnan) and Indo-China: Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Laos, Vietnam as per POWO)

   

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Tournefortia – Invitation to view:
Please. check ‘Tournefortia’ diversity of North-East India


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Tournefortia species in NE India and differences:
Surajit ji has compiled the following:

Tournefortia in NE-India Flora of British India – vol.4
Accepted name remarks distrib. ref. KEW / GBIF
T. roxburghii T. montana easily separated by its longer corolla, cymes terminal and supra-axillary, flowers sub-2-seriate Chittagong GBIF
T. candollii T. montana Bhotan, Assam, Khasia, Shilet T. candollei in KEW
T. khasiana T. khasiana cymes rusty pubescent, branches few, long, densely flowered; alt. 1500ft Khasia POWO
T. hookeri T. hookeri corolla tube hardly exceeding the calyx Sikkim POWO
T. viridiflora Heliotropium viridiflorum cymes terminal, rusty villous, flowers 2-ranked, very dense Assam, Silhet POWO

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