676 ID wild plant: 11 high res. images.
Please ID wild plant,
Location: Vattavada Munnar Idukki Kerala INDIA
Altitude: 6600fsl
Flower date: 06DEC2024, 05.10pm
Habitat: wild moisture evergreen sloppy misty canopied shola highland
Plant habit: medium erect branched shrub, hard cylindrical stem 15mm base diameter, perennial
Height: 06 feet
Leaves: opposite elliptic acute simple flexible glossy smooth, vein base glanded, size upto: 09×5cm
Flower: terminal panicle inflorescence, clustered, whitish, fragrant, diameter:02cm
Fruit:
Seed:
It appears to be a Psychotria species. I could not find any match as per the following:
https://efloraofindia.com/efi/psychotria/
Yes, it is Psychotria sp., dear …, thank you very much for the Genus ID of my plant
There are many closely related species reported from Idukki district as per listing in Flora of Peninsular India.
After going through them and eFI, POWO and GBIF, I find the following appears closer:
Psychotria barberi:
https://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/FloraPeninsular/herbsheet.php?id=8634&cat=7
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:761457-1
https://www.gbif.org/species/2922594Psychotria macrocarpa Hook.f.:
https://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/FloraPeninsular/herbsheet.php?id=8650&cat=7
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:762563-1
https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?taxon_key=2922300
https://www.gbif.org/tools/zoom/simple.html?src=//api.gbif.org/v1/image/cache/occurrence/912100165/media/2bff70b60cd438bc2796f5821462809b
https://www.gbif.org/tools/zoom/simple.html?src=//api.gbif.org/v1/image/cache/occurrence/665810173/media/cec42600192e497ab4d2ff59324e2be0
Very difficult to confirm anything.
Psychotria barberi:
https://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/FloraPeninsular/herbsheet.php?id=8634&cat=7
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:761457-1
https://www.gbif.org/species/2922594Psychotria macrocarpa Hook.f.:
https://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/FloraPeninsular/herbsheet.php?id=8650&cat=7
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:762563-1
https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?taxon_key=2922300
https://www.gbif.org/tools/zoom/simple.html?src=//api.gbif.org/v1/image/cache/occurrence/912100165/media/2bff70b60cd438bc2796f5821462809b
https://www.gbif.org/tools/zoom/simple.html?src=//api.gbif.org/v1/image/cache/occurrence/665810173/media/cec42600192e497ab4d2ff59324e2be0
Very difficult to confirm anything.
Thank you very much for sharing some more links for identification. Yes, it is very difficult to confirm.