Lindenbergia macrostachya

Lindenbergia macrostachya (Benth.) Benth., Scroph. Ind. 22 1835. (syn: Adenosma cuspidatum Benth.; Lindenbergia siamensis Miq. ex Hook. fil.; Stemodia macrostachya Benth.); 

India, Pakistan (Hazara, Pakistani Punjab, Rawalpindi), Jammu & Kashmir
(Jammu, Kashmir) as per Catalogue of Life; 

 

Scrophulariaceae of the Western Himalayas By Francis . Pennell (1943- Description & Keys- grandiflora, macrostachya & ruderalis)  

  

---

Lindenbergia macrostachya from Morni hills, Haryana for confirmation:  I have a feeling that this is the same plant which is represented at FOI as Lindenbergia grandiflora. L. grandiflora is supposed to be a plant much more densely and spreading hairy with flowers almost 2.5-3 cm long with corolla 2-3 times as long as calyx, and also leaves may be up to 20 cm long. In our plants the plants are appressed hairy to almost glabrous, leaves smaller than 6 am and corolla 10-12 mm long, tube slightly longer than calyx.
     There is some confusion whether our plant should be called as L. macrostachya Benth. (Kew Plant List considers it as unresolved name) or L. philippensis Benth. which is reported from Nepal Himalayas but without citation of synonym. Flora of British India considers this as a variety of L. philippensis with shorter petioles and more glabrous parts.

    My photograph number 4 looks to be the same but has much interrupted inflorescence with distant flowers, or may represent early stage of the same plant. Your view please.

---

Here is link for comparison with L. grandiflora

http://www.aperturenepal.com/index.php?page=19#gallery/ROOFING_29D07F…

---

This is indeed Lindenbergia mactrostachya. Quite common in Morni Hills area. I hope you have  posted the photograph from the same area.

---

---

It is Linderbergia macrostchya  

---