{"id":1444020,"date":"2021-05-28T16:29:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T10:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/?p=1444020"},"modified":"2024-12-23T16:14:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T10:44:35","slug":"lepidagathis-rigida","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/lepidagathis-rigida\/","title":{"rendered":"Lepidagathis rigida"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lepidagathis rigida\u00a0<\/i>Dalz., Hooker’s J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 2: 341 1850<\/cite>. ;
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\nS. Pakistan to W. India, Assam to Bangladesh<\/span> as per POWO<\/a>;
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\nIndia (NE-India, NW-Ghats (Maharashtra)), Pakistan (Sind), Bangladesh<\/span> as per CoL<\/a>;
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\nCommon name:<\/b>\u00a0Rigid Lepidagathis
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Dalz, in Hook. Kew Journ,<\/em>\u00a0ii. 341 ; softly hairy, leaves linear-lanceolate muticous, spikes oblong dense terminal often appearing clustered, bracts narrowly ovate shortly spinescent.<\/span> Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 191 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 495.<\/p>\n

BOMBAY GHAUTS ; Dalzell, Stocks, &c. SCINDE (T. Anderson).<\/p>\n

Suffruticose, 1-2 ft. (at least), erect, softly hairy. Leaves 3.1\/2 by 1\/2 in., attenuate at both ends, glandular-pubescent on both surfaces ; petiole indistinct. Spikes 1\/2-2.1\/2 in., often appearing as in terminal clusters on shortened lateral branches ; bracts 1\/3-1\/2 in., entire, rigid. Corolla 1\/2 in., yellow-white. Capsule 1\/5 in., 4-seeded. Seeds in. diam.<\/span>\u2014The inflorescence, capsule and seeds approach those of L. hyalina.<\/p>\n

(Attributions-\u00a0IBIS Flora<\/a> (Flora of British India))
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\nLepidagathis rigida<\/a>: 6 images.
\nLepidagathis rigida<\/i>\u00a0(Acanthaceae)
\nAmboli, Maharashtra\u00a02021 March<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thanks, …, for the wonderful images.<\/p>\n

How is it different from\u00a0Lepidagathis cuspidata\u00a0<\/em>Nees<\/a>\u00a0?<\/div>\n
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Is there any observation at\u00a0Lepidagathis cuspidata<\/em>\u00a0Nees<\/a>, which may be of\u00a0L. rigida<\/em> ?<\/p>\n

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Yes very different than L.\u00a0 Cuspidata<\/em><\/p>\n

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Any keys to differentiate the two?<\/p>\n

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\nI have identified it from Cooke and compared\u00a0it with protologue<\/p>\n

Leaves are linear-lanceolate\u00a0 and longitudinally folded\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
specimen collected by me Matches with Type description<\/div>\n
rest photos I have provided already.
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References: POWO<\/a> \u00a0Catalogue of Life<\/a>\u00a0 The Plant List Ver.1.1<\/a> \u00a0Tropicos<\/a> \u00a0GBIF<\/a> (High resolution specimens) Flora of Pakistan<\/a>\u00a0 Flora of peninsular India<\/a> \u00a0Flowers of India<\/a>\u00a0 India Biodiversity Portal<\/a> \u00a0IBIS Flora<\/a> (Flora of British India)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lepidagathis rigida\u00a0Dalz., Hooker’s J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 2: 341 1850. ; . S. Pakistan to W. India, Assam to Bangladesh as per POWO; . India (NE-India, NW-Ghats (Maharashtra)), Pakistan (Sind), Bangladesh as per CoL; . Common name:\u00a0Rigid Lepidagathis . Dalz, in Hook. Kew Journ,\u00a0ii. 341 ; softly hairy, leaves…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[5923],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1444020","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-lepidagathis-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1444020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1444020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1444020"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1444020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}