Thottea idukkiana Pandur. & V. J. Nair, J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 17: 465 (1993);
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India (Kerala) as per POWO;
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582 ID wild plant Thottea: 20 high res. images.
Please ID wild plant,
Location: bloomed near Vannappuram Thodupuzha Idukki Kerala INDIA
Altitude: 1500fsl
Flower date: 07APR2022, 12.15pm
Habitat: wild moisture evergreen misty sloppy canopied alpine
Plant habit: shrub, erect branches, semi hard cylindrical stem 01.5 inche base circumference, perennial
Height: 04 feet
Leaves: alternate elongated acute simple smooth flexible glossy aromatic size upto: 16×6cm
Flower: axillary buds, 03 tepals, tomentose, diameter:12mm, purplish, non fragrant
Fruit: beans lengthy trigonus green into brown size:08×0.6cm
Seed: brown upto 10 pea shaped
Camera: CANON EOS1500D +FL10x
Thottea dalzellii (Hook.f.) Karthik. & Moorthy
Thank you very much for the ID suggestion, it is very close to T. idukkiana.
https://efloraofindia.com/2013/04/04/thottea/
Pl. confirm or otherwise.
I don’t think so, also T. siliquosa opened flowers are downy it is matching to T. idukkiana. And I am upload one more Thottea images shortly,
An image sharing for comparison, more images were served shortly as another ID request, please check collage for viewing the difference (bottom – ID 582), and also the top flower is comparatively smaller than 582,
Hope … can help with this.
Pl. see the attached images for fusing of petals.
As far as I can tell, the sepals do not appear completely free up to the base. We can get a better idea with a side-view of the flower in one of … other photographs (marked & attached herewith).
May be.
It seems to be a Nothospecies? closely similar to Thottea idukkiana (= T.duchartrei) but not different from it. I have seen many such intermediate forms in T.idukkiana. For the time being, I go for T.idukkiana.
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References:
POWO Catalogue of Life (Thottea duchartrei Sivar., A. Babu & Balach.) WFO Flora of peninsular India India Biodiversity Portal