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Afghanistan, Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China South-Central, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO;
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China (Yunnan, Guizhou), India (throughout, Darjeeling, Bengal), Bhutan, Sikkim, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar [Burma] (Kachin, Mandalay, Yangon), Nepal, Bangladesh as per Catalogue of life;
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As per efi thread:
D. roxburghiana (now D. chinensis) differs from Var. bupleuroides (now D. bupleuroides) in the broader, more or less obovate, bracts(in comparison to bracts linear or linear-oblong nearly parallel-sided acuminate cuspidate in Dicliptera bupleuroides
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(i) bracts obovate or cuneate, elliptic, apiculate, not acuminate = D. roxburghiana Nees (D. chinensis)
(ii) bracts linear or linear-oblong, with nearly parallel margins, acuminate-cuspidate = var. bupleuroides (D. bupleuroides)
The key above is from “Bengal Plants”.
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Flora of British India recognises two taxa: D. roxburghiana Nees growing in plains on N. India from Punjab to Assam (it has elliptic acute leaves; bracts elliptic or obovate, apiculate not acuminate (less than twice as long as broad-eFl China) and D. roxburghiana var. bupleuroides growing in hills from 1000-6000 ft. (which is now treated as distinct species D. bupleuroides; leaves ovate or elliptic acute or acuminate; bracts linear or linear-oblong nearly parallel sided and acuminate-cuspidate at tip)
Pakistan Flora does not list D. roxburghiana and treats D. roxburgiana auct (non Nees); T. Anders as synonym of D. bupleuroides, in which flowers are supposed to be 12-15 mm long, lists flowers shorter than 5 mm in D. verticillata which also has linear-lanceolate bracts.
Flora of China luckily includes both the species D. bupleuroides (corolla 5 mm long) and D. chinensis (L.) Juss. (with D. roxburghiana Nees as synonym). Both are reported to be growing in India, D. bupleuroides according to Useful Plants of India, CSIR known as Bouna in Simla and D. Roxburhiana as Kirch or Somni in Punjab.
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Acanthaceae sp for ID from Chakrata Kalsi Road, wild about 1-1.5 ft high
My guess Peristrophe sp may be roxburghiana

Seems to match with D. roxburghiana Nees [synonym of Dicliptera chinensis (L.) Juss.] images.

This will be Dicliptera bupleuroides as per images and details herein.
Differences between the two species are better appreciated as per FoC illustration and FoP illustration.


Images by Prasad Kumar Dash (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more images & complete details, click on the links)

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[EfloraofIndia_170212PD01_Dicliptera bupleuroides_Flora of Odisha: (7 pictures)

 please find the images of Dicliptera bupleuroides taken from Ranpur
Name: Dicliptera bupleuroides
Family: Acanthaceae
Habit: Herb
Habitat: wild, moist deciduous to semi-evergreen forest
Place of collection: Ranpur

Beautiful shots showing all features



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pink flowers from acanthaceae family for id mm2 22022013:
pink flowers from acanthaceae family
for identification
morni hills, first week of january


This is Dicliptera bupleuroides.. happy to know that you visited Morni Hills…


Supporting …


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Kalatop (Dam side) id Al031312:
Another flower blooming nowadays near the Chamera Dam…
Location Kalatop, Chamba
Altitude 1200 mts
Habit herb
Habitat wild
Height 2feet (seemed to be chopped)
Season March


Dicliptera bupleuroides



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MS Dec,2016/12 Dicliptera sp. for ID : 5 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2)

Location : Sairep, Mizoram
Date : 30/11/2016
Habit : Herb or undershrub
Habitat : Wild


Pl. check comparative images at Dicliptera


Dicliptera bupleuroides, Nees ?


More closer to Dicliptera chinensis (L.) Juss.  as per images herein.
But may also be some other species. Pl. check local flora.

This will be Dicliptera bupleuroides as per images and details herein.
Differences between the two species are better appreciated as per FoC illustration and FoP illustration.


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Dicliptera bupleuroides Nees (accepted name) ?? : 7 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2)
Sharing some pictures In guess is Dicliptera bupleuroides Nees (accepted name)
shot at Godawari Botanical Garden, Nepal on 8 March, 2013 at 5000 ft.

Pl. check comparative images at efi


I think more closer to Dicliptera chinensis (L.) Juss. 

Pl. see with comparative images at Dicliptera



Thanks, … Now it is up to you to decide in the matter, if your images matches with any of the species given in the Chechklist of Nepal or with images under Dicliptera chinensis (L.) Juss. 


Could not decide as not listed in Nepal.


It may be Dicliptera bupleuroides Nees as per images and details herein.


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Dicliptera chinensis:
Dicliptera chinensis, I suspect
chakki mor near parwanoo
second week of march


It may be Dicliptera bupleuroides Nees as per images and details herein.



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ID request for flowering plant from Eastern Himalaya:
Would appreciate ID on this, please. It is a small straggling shrub, mostly on shady forest floors and roadside mud banks, flowering now. Photographed in my garden in Kalimpong, 1200mtr above msl, District Darjeeling, Eastern Himalaya .


Dicliptera roxburghiana, now considered as synonym of D. chinensis


It may be Dicliptera bupleuroides Nees as per images and details herein.



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These pics were recorded from Shimla area, please validate/correct the id..
Dicliptera bupleuroides..?

Dicliptera chinensis as per images and details herein. Looks different from Dicliptera bupleuroides as per images and details herein.
Differences between the two species are better appreciated as per FoC illustration and FoP illustration

It may be Dicliptera bupleuroides Nees as per images and details herein.



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id from hp : 5 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1)
himachal pradesh. 21/09/16

Dicliptera sp.


Pl. check with comparative images at Dicliptera


From comparative images at Dicliptera, it appears close to Dicliptera chinensis (L.) Juss.


On further examination and discussions at thread: Dicliptera bupleuroides Nees (accepted name) ??? , I feel it should be Dicliptera riparia Nees (syn: Dicliptera roxburghiana var. riparia (Nees) Benoist) as per distribution, specimens and references herein.


It may also be Dicliptera bupleuroides Nees as per images and details herein.



MS, Jan.,2021/07 Dicliptera sp. for id
1 image.
Location : Tamdil, Mizoram

Altitude : ca.750 m.
Habit : Herb
Habitat : Wild

Dicliptera sp. ?


What are the species reported in your area?


Dicliptera cuneata


Dicliptera bupleuroides, D.fera and D.sivarajanii are listed in mizoram


What are the keys as species look quite similar.
I feel it may be Dicliptera bupleuroides as per images and details herein and as per GBIF specimens from India. But I am not sure. Other species like D.fera as per GBIF specimens from India and from D.sivarajanii as per GBIF specimens from India, are also possible.
Keys are required. 



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SD121 plant ID help: 1 high res. image.
Clicked in Pachmarhi


Dicliptera bupleuroides Nees



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Dicliptera bupleuroides from Mandi : Attachments (2).  5 posts by 3 authors.

Dicliptera bupleuroides Nees (syn: Dicliptera roxburghina auct. (non Nees which is synonym of D. chinensis)) from Mandi H. P., common in the Himalayas at lower altitudes ascending to 2200 m,
not to be confused with Peristrophe roxburghiana (Roem. et Schult.) Bremek (syn: P. tinctoria (Roxb.) Nees) which is a cultivated species with much larger flowers (nearly 3 cm as against 1.5-2 cm in D. bupleuroides) and few flowers generally towards top of branches.

Thanks Sir for indicating the difference and also I was unaware of the complex nomenclatural history of this plant.


This species has been troubling for a long time, and it seems the troubles are still not over. Comparing your pictures with the illustration at Flora of Pakistan.
One petal of the flower has three teeth, and the other is notched. In your picture, one petal is 3-toothed, but the other is clearly not notched. Also the leaves in the illustration are long-stalked, whereas those in your plant appear to be short-stalked or stalkless.
With one petal 3-toothed, and the other one pointed, your flower reminds me of Peristrophe, however I will let that speculation be at the moment.


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Thanks … for your critical observation:

Here is description from Flora of British India, Page 554 for Dicliptera
    “upper lip entire or emarginate”, “lower 3-toothed recurved”
As far as leaves are concerned, petiole length varies from 4 mm to 25 mm. It is usual to find lower leaves petioled and upper sessile. The photographs are from the upper region where flower-clusters are present. You may check up illustration on page 377 of “Flora Simlensis” The key features between the genera are the fruit dehiscence (which of course we are not seeing in this case) and inflorescence which in Peristrophe appears paniculate (as you can clearly see in Perstrophe paniculata and links I have provided for P. roxburghiana (syn: P. tinctotoria).
I fear the two photographs appearing at FOI belong to two different species, second possibly to Dicliptera bupleuroides, and first definitely not P. roxburghiana). P. roxburghiana is a cultivated species and not growing wild in Himalayas. You may observe my links carefully. I am uploading one more photograph to show faint notch. I am providing more links for P. roxburghiana

Thanks …, for the clarifications. I have always been uncertain about my identification of Peristrophe roxburghii at FOI – will give a revised look. Thanks particularly for the link of the illustration of  Peristrophe roxburghiana – this is something I wanted badly. I was not too worried about Peristrophe roxburghiana being a
cultivated plant because we found it in Nainital, where there are lot of flora planted by the British, and garden escapes are common. Meanwhile, does any of your pictures of Dicliptera bupleuroides show the sepals – I believe they are supposed to be linear-lance shaped.


Dicliptera chinensis as per images and details herein. Looks different from Dicliptera bupleuroides as per images and details herein.
Differences between the two species are better appreciated as per FoC illustration and FoP illustration

On further examination and discussions at thread: Dicliptera bupleuroides Nees (accepted name) ??? , I feel it should be Dicliptera riparia Nees (syn: Dicliptera roxburghiana var. riparia (Nees) Benoist) as per distribution, specimens and references herein.


Dicliptera riparia has distribution only in Eastern Himalayas, not in Western Himalayas.
I should be D. chinensis (L.) Juss. (Syn: D. roxburghiana Nees) which has distribution in most of India including W. Himalayas according to POWO


No distribution in W. Himalayas according to POWO.
Also see discussions at thread: Dicliptera bupleuroides Nees (accepted name) ???


Whole of India is marked. If it is in Pakistan, Western Himalayas is automatically covered. POWO treats it as accepted name and I want we should follow it
All three similar species are listed in FBI (under names D. riparia, D. roxburghiana and D. roxburghiana var. bupleuroides): Here is comparison of accepted names

D. riparia Nees is distributed in Pegu  and Tenassarim (Myanmar),FBI according to Flora China Nepal, Myanmar to Yunan: Lesves ovate, obtuse often emarginate bracts, bracteoles 6 mm, linear.
D. chinensis (L.) Juss. (Syn: D. roxburghiana Nees): Leaves ovate-elliptic, base cuneate to attenuate, decurrent on petiole, outer bracteoles 5-13 mm x 3-8 mm , less than twice as long as broad, corolla 10-12 mm long; Throughout India
D. bupleuroides Nees (Syn: D. roxburghiana var. bupleuroides (Nees) Clarke): leaves ovate, base cuneate; outer bracteoles 5-7 mm long, more than twice as long as broad; corolla 5 mm long.; Throughout India
When looking for specimens from Western Himalayas we have to be vigilant about size of corolla and relative length breadth ratio of outer bracteoles.
Looking at corolla size it safely fits into D. bupleuroides

Western Himalaya is neither marked in the map nor stated in the text in POWO.

It is specifically mentioned in POWO, whenever there is a distribution.
POWO always mentions the following (for India and Nepal) in its text:
Western Himalaya,
Eastern Himalaya,
Assam,
Nepal,
India (other than above)
For other aspects, I will again have a re-look.

When whole India is marked, how can you exclude Western Himalayas. FBI says throughout India  from 1-6000 ft, Himalayas from Kashmir to Assam; Collett records from Simla.


This is D. bupleuroides as per details at Dicliptera roxburghiana and Dicliptera roxburghiana var. bupleuroides



 

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Acanthaceae Week: Dicliptera bupleuroides from Manali: Dicliptera bupleuroides Nees, Pl. asiat. rar. 3:111. 1832
syn: Dicliptera buergeriana Miq.; Dicliptera cardiocarpa Nees; Dicliptera roxburghii T.Anderson; Dicliptera roxburghiana var. bupleuroides (Nees) C.B. Clarke; Dicliptera roxburghiana auct. (non Nees)
hairy diffuse herb with ovate-lanceolate about 5 cm long leaves, flowers pink spotted with purple spots.
Common along pathways in Manali and Kullu. Photographed from Mandi in October, 2009.

Dicliptera chinensis as per images and details herein. Looks different from Dicliptera bupleuroides as per images and details herein.

Differences between the two species are better appreciated as per FoC illustration and FoP illustration


On further examination and discussions at thread: Dicliptera bupleuroides Nees (accepted name) ??? , I feel it should be Dicliptera riparia Nees (syn: Dicliptera roxburghiana var. riparia (Nees) Benoist) as per distribution, specimens and references herein.


All three similar species are listed in FBI (under names D. riparia, D. roxburghiana and D. roxburghiana var. bupleuroides): Here is comparison of accepted names
D. riparia Nees is distributed in Pegu  and Tenassarim (Myanmar),FBI according to Flora China Nepal, Myanmar to Yunan: Lesves ovate, obtuse often emarginate bracts, bracteoles 6 mm, linear.
D. chinensis (L.) Juss. (Syn: D. roxburghiana Nees): Leaves ovate-elliptic, base cuneate to attenuate, decurrent on petiole, outer bracteoles 5-13 mm x 3-8 mm , less than twice as long as broad, corolla 10-12 mm long; Throughout India
D. bupleuroides Nees (Syn: D. roxburghiana var. bupleuroides (Nees) Clarke): leaves ovate, base cuneate; outer bracteoles 5-7 mm long, more than twice as long as broad; corolla 5 mm long.; Throughout India
When looking for specimens from Western Himalayas we have to be vigilant about size of corolla and relative length breadth ratio of outer bracteoles.
    This is D. bupleuroides

I agree as per details at Dicliptera roxburghiana and Dicliptera roxburghiana var. bupleuroides



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¿ Dicliptera / Peristrophe ?
Not sure whether Dicliptera OR Peristrophe, perhaps Dicliptera. Hopefully, the photos help in knowing genus.
at Naldehra on May 31, 2008
at Shimla on (same day) May 31, 2008

I hope Dicliptera sinensis.


Thank you very much … for the possible ID.


On further examination and discussions at thread: Dicliptera bupleuroides Nees (accepted name) ??? , I feel it should be Dicliptera riparia Nees (syn: Dicliptera roxburghiana var. riparia (Nees) Benoist) as per distribution, specimens and references herein.


This is D. bupleuroides as per details at Dicliptera roxburghiana and Dicliptera roxburghiana var. bupleuroides



In this October,I had been to Chakarata– a town near Deharadun.I have few snaps of plants, flowers and fruits which I can’t identify as I don’t have any books on Himalayan flora. Please help me in identifying them.I will be posting one flower in each post.

Dicliptera bupleuroides


May be Dicliptera chinensis as per images and details herein. Looks different from Dicliptera bupleuroides as per images and details herein.

Differences between the two species are better appreciated as per FoC illustration and FoP illustration


On further examination and discussions at thread: Dicliptera bupleuroides Nees (accepted name) ???, I feel it should be Dicliptera riparia Nees (syn: Dicliptera roxburghiana var. riparia (Nees) Benoist) as per distribution, specimens and references herein.


This is D. bupleuroides as per details at Dicliptera roxburghiana and Dicliptera roxburghiana var. bupleuroides


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Dicliptera roxburghiana and Dicliptera roxburghiana var. bupleuroides:
Let us analyse both species again (I could not find var. riparia in IBIS Flora for FBI details, but POWO gives distribution in Nepal only):

Dicliptera roxburghiana var. bupleuroides (Nees) C.B.Clarke:
FBI:
Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 111, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 485, excl. syn. Roxb, (sp.) ; leaves ovate or elliptic acute or acuminate glabrous or somewhat pubescent, flower-clusters dense axillary and terminal mostly sessile, bracts linear or linear-oblong nearly parallel-sided acuminate cuspidate, D. cardiocarpa, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Bar. iii. 111, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 480. D. hirtula, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 485. D. Roxburghii, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 519, chiefly. D. Roxburghiana, Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 526, not of Nees. D. rupestris, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 486. D. crinita, Nees l. c. 485, as to the Indian examples so named by Nees. Justicia chinensis, Wall. Cat. 2466, letter B, C partly ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 125, Obs. only. J. canescens, Wall. Cat. 2423.
Throughout India in the hills, alt. 1-6000 ft., abundant in the north, becoming rare in the Malabar Ghauts ; in the Himalaya from Kashmir to Upper Assam and the Chittagong Hills ; Mt. Aboo, Stocks ; Central India. Distrib. Afghanistan.A large very uniform series, varying only slightly in the pubescence of the bracts. In the extreme forms the bracts are 3/4 by 1/16 in., glistening ciliate, and in some of Beddome’s Malabar specimens they are almost subulate. Though the bracts are often broader than in these, the plant as a whole is tolerably well separable from D. Roxburghiana.

FoP illustration  POWO  Keys in Flora of China
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Dicliptera roxburghiana Nees:
FBI:
Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 111, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 483, excl. syn. ; leaves elliptic acute obscurely pubescent or glabrate, flower-clusters axillary and terminal sessile more rarely shortly peduncled, bracts cuneate-elliptic or obovate apiculate not acuminate. T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 519, partly ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 196 ?. Justicia chinensis, Wall. Cat. 2466, letter D, and part B, C.

Plains of N. INDIA, from the Punjab to Assam, Silhet and E. Bengal, frequent. BHOTAN ; Griffith.

Stems 1-3 ft., elongate, nearly glabrous. Leaves 2.1/2 by 1 in., base cuneate ; petiole 1/4 in. Bracts nearly 1/2 by 1/5 in., often 3-nerved, ciliate, thinly pubescent. Corolla 3/4 in. Capsule 1/4 in., clavate, puberulous or glabrous. Seeds conspicuously verrucose.—The whole of the plains form of B. Roxburghiana differs from Var. bupleuroides in the broader, more or less obovate, bracts. Nees founded his species on the common Assam and E. Bengal plant, and the original ticket on his type specimen is marked Assam. Bentham, however (in Fl. Hongk. 266), says this was an error, and that this type specimen came from the Calcutta Botanic Garden ; but it is not known how Bentham discovered this. Nees, however, is in error in citing Roxburgh’s Justicia chinensis, for Roxburgh’s Ic. Ined, proves this to have been the true plant, long cultivated at Calcutta.

Thus clear distinction is in the bracts (linear or linear-oblong nearly parallel-sided acuminate cuspidate in bupleuroides & more or less obovate, bracts in roxburghiana) and distribution (Throughout India in the hills, alt. 1-6000 ft., abundant in the north in bupleuroides & Plains of N. INDIA, from the Punjab to Assam, Silhet and E. Bengal, frequent in roxburghiana). 

I will work on these lines to analyse our postings again.


Let us keep it D. chinensis vs D. buplleurioides now, as both COL and POWO treat D. roxburghiana as synonym of D. chinensis


D. bupleuroides: Outer bracteoles oblong-lanceolate, 5-7 mm, more than twice as long as broad; crorolla 5 mm long
D. chinensis: Outer bracteoles 5-13 mm long, less than twice as long as broad; corolla 10-12 mm long.
Longer corolla is very distinctive in latter



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Dicliptera bupleuroides Nees (accepted name) ??? : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (6)
Location : Pharpingl, Nepal
Date : 20 March 2017
Altitude : 4800 ft.

I also think matches with images at Dicliptera bupleuroides


Dicliptera chinensis as per images and details herein. Looks different from Dicliptera bupleuroides as per images and details herein.
Differences between the two species are better appreciated as per FoC illustration and FoP illustration

But I could not find distribution in Nepal !


Thanks, …

I checked further. I think it appears close to Dicliptera riparia Nees (syn. Dicliptera roxburghiana var. riparia (Nees) Benoist) as mentioned in the Checklist of Nepal as per GBIFspecimen.
POWO mentions its distribution in China South-Central, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand.
However, I could not find in efloras except in the Checklist of Nepal.
Catalogue of Life gives its distribution as India (Himalayas, Plains of E-, N- & NE-India, Upper Gangetic Plains), Myanmar [Burma] (Bago, Taninthayi), Thailand, Nepal.
For Dicliptera chinensis (L.) Juss. (syn. Dicliptera roxburghiana Nees), Catalogue of life (China (Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Hongkong, Macao, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan), Taiwan, Indochina, Pakistan (Baluchistan, Quetta, Waziristan, Kurram, N.W.Frontier Prov., Dir, Swat, Pakistani Punjab, Salt Range, Rawalpindi, Hazara), Ryukyu Isl., Hawaii (I) (Kauai (I), Oahu (I), Molokai (I))) does not mention its distribution in India. POWO (Afghanistan, Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Pakistan, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam) also does not give its distribution in the Himalayas.
So it is quite possible that our Himalayan plants may also be this species.

Elevation does not match and only one sp. recorded in Kathmandu valley so far.
Dicliptera riparia Nees


All three similar species are listed in FBI (under names D. riparia, D. roxburghiana and D. roxburghiana var. bupleuroides): Here is comparison of accepted names

D. riparia Nees is distributed in Pegu  and Tenassarim (Myanmar),FBI according to Flora China Nepal, Myanmar to Yunan: Lesves ovate, obtuse often emarginate bracts, bracteoles 6 mm, linear.
D. chinensis (L.) Juss. (Syn: D. roxburghiana Nees): Leaves ovate-elliptic, base cuneate to attenuate, decurrent on petiole, outer bracteoles 5-13 mm x 3-8 mm , less than twice as long as broad, corolla 10-12 mm long; Throughout India
D. bupleuroides Nees (Syn: D. roxburghiana var. bupleuroides (Nees) Clarke): leaves ovate, base cuneate; outer bracteoles 5-7 mm long, more than twice as long as broad; corolla 5 mm long.; Throughout India
When looking for specimens from Western Himalayas we have to be vigilant about size of corolla and relative length breadth ratio of outer bracteoles.

I will keep it and other similar observations from Nepal, as D.riparia, as per Checklist of Nepal and POWO 1 (D.riparia) and POWO 2 (Dicliptera chinensis (L.) Juss.), although I am yet not clear as to how to differentiate it from D.chinensis. Main distribution of D.riparia is stated to be Pegu and Tenassarim (Myanmar) as per FBI and China South-Central, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand as per POWO 1 (D.riparia), although it is not recorded in Flora of China.


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May I request you to pl. post an image from the FBI for D. riparia Nees, as I am unable to find one on the net.


I think there is no need now.
As per Online account of Flora of Nepal, D. riparia Nees is not listed.


We keep it as Dicliptera bupleuroides


Online account of Flora of Nepal says:
Diclipteria riparia Nees has also been reported from Nepal, based on only one collection, Zimmermann 1154. This specimen has not been traced, but it is likely that it is D. bupleuroides. These species are morphologically very similar and a detailed study from their entire distribution ranges is needed to confirm the taxonomic status of D. riparia.


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SK 3009 02 October 2021: 7 very high res. images.
Location: Kalikot, West Nepal
Altitude: 1465 m.
Date: 16 August 2021
Habit : Wild
Dicliptera bupleuroides Nees ??


I think Dicliptera riparia Nees as per images and details herein.
Looks different from Dicliptera bupleuroides Nees


As per Online account of Flora of NepalD. riparia Nees is not listed.
We keep it as Dicliptera bupleuroides


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Dicliptera riparia Nees: 7 very high res. images.

Location: Kalikot, West Nepal
Altitude: 1465 m.
Date: 16 August 2021
Habit : Wild

As per Online account of Flora of NepalD. riparia Nees is not listed.
We keep it as Dicliptera bupleuroides


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SK 3299 07 January 2022: 5 very high res. images.

Location: Surkhet, West Nepal
Altitude: 700 m.
Date: 09 December 2021 
Habit : Wild
Diliptera…??

D. riparia is recorded


I guess it is matching ! Dicliptera riparia Nees

As per Online account of Flora of NepalD. riparia Nees is not listed.
We keep it as Dicliptera bupleuroides


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Help me to identify this sp. From Banihal jammu kashmir: 2 high res. images.
Kindly help me in identification of this species from Banihal kashmir


Dicliptera !


yes sir, mostly Dicliptera chinensis …of acanthaceae


Dicliptera bupleuroides Noos (syn:  Dicliptera roxburghiana var. bupleuroides (Nees) C.B.Clarke; D. chinensis


Please note synonym is D. chinensis auct (Non L.) as per eFlora of Pakistan


 

 


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