Thottea idukkiana

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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.

I think it should be Thottea siliquosa as per keys at
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,

The sepals appear to be fused up to the middle or so, hence indicative of T. idukkiana and/or T. duchartrei.
The arrangement of stamens (3+3+3+1)in your first batch of photographs looks quite unusual.
The flowers can be “both reddish purple and yellowish in T. duchartrei and T. idukkiana.” How does one distinguish between T. idukkiana and T. duchartrei?

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