miremonster

Do You have emersed and flowering plants of 'Bihar'? An ID may be possible, e.g. with Cook (1996) Aquatic and wetland plants of India.

Cavan Allen

I'm converting some now. I can already say that it doesn't appear to be like any of the plants in Cook. It retains pubescent stems submersed, which is very odd. I'll keep you posted.

ingg

Don't have it flowering, bought it in emersed form and watched it tranform in my tank. Rather unremarkable emersed, then watching new leaves come in was really neat.

Bugger is also substrate creeping on me, I need to cut the side shoots and try and stop it. It is not a small hygro!

Cavan Allen

I'm starting to wonder if it's really a Hygrophila.

miremonster

A little off-topic: yesterday I watched a presentation from Claus Christensen about a Tropica collection tour to Nepal, and there was shown a plant looking like the H. sp. 'Bihar' in a shallow stream, at quite low elevation on the foot of the Himalayas. I don't know if they collected also this plant.
The Indian state Bihar borders on Nepal.

miremonster

Pics of the African Hygro that smells like a billy goat, from last year. This flowering stem is not as strong as Cavan's specimen in the 1st posting, but the lower parts of the plant were bigger than the flowering ones. The plant is covered with short sticky glandular hairs.
(Scale: millimeters)






The corolla tube is about 1 inch long.



Top view at the lower lip. The throat has a structure looking like teeth pointing backward. (One half of this lip is stunted.)

Cavan Allen

That's interesting. My stem has no glandular hairs, at least not on the stem (I am not at home to check). But I know that the Hygrophila sp. 'Bold' can can have very obvious glandular hairs when young but not as it grows larger.