Lilium species/ hybrids- Uttarakhand

  Lilium sp. : 5 posts by 1 author. Attachments (2)- 3 Mb each.  I am working on the ornamental flora of my region and I came across Lilium sp. I have searched many floras and gone through various websites but still cannot find scientific name along with the author citation. The species I have collected […]

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Castanopsis species ?- Lava, Kalimpong, India

  SK1156 30 MAY 2018 : 7 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (4) – around 700 kb each. Location : Lava, Kalimpong, India Date : 11 May 2018 Elevation :  6800 ft. Habit : Wild Appears to be a Fagaceae member  As per suggestion of …, pl. check at  /species/a—l/f/fagaceae Castanopsis or Quercus sp. Can’t decide […]

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Berberis insignis

Berberis insignis Hook.f. & Thomson, Fl. Ind. 1: 226 1855. (syn: Berberis insignis var. elegantifolia Ahrendt; Berberis insignis var. gouldii Ahrendt; Berberis insignis var. shergaonensis Ahrendt); India (West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh), Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar [Burma] (Kachin) as per Catalogue of Life; Evergreen shrub, 1.5-2m; stems yellow or puriplish, unarmed or with a few weak […]

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Trichosanthes species ?- Rajshahi, Bangladesh

  Re: Wild climber id from BD_sm_1521 : 7 posts by 1 author. Attachments (1) – 4 MB. Picture taken : May, 2018 Habitat: village Thicket floor  Location: Rajshahi, Bangladesh Attachments (1) – 4 MB. Attachments (1) – 3 MB.  The shape of the leaf indicates it may be Trichosanthes bracteata (MAKAL). Flowers and fruits may […]

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Ligustrum robustum subsp. walkeri ?

Ligustrum robustum subsp. walkeri (Decne.) P.S.Green, Kew Bull. 40: 130 1985. (syn: Ligustrum ceylanicum Decne.; Ligustrum decaisnei C.B.Clarke; Ligustrum microphyllum Bedd.; Ligustrum neilgherrense Decne. [Illegitimate]; Ligustrum robustum var. walkeri (Decne.) Mansf.; Ligustrum travancoricum Gamble; Ligustrum walkeri Decne.) ?; S. India, Sri Lanka as per WCSP;   India; Mauritius; Runion; Sri Lanka as per Catalogue of Life; […]

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Hippeastrum Double Flowering ‘Striped Amadeus’

  SK1152 28 MAY 2018: 6 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (4)- around 800 kb each.  Location:  Soureni, India  Date: 7 May  2018 Altitude: 4000 ft Habit : Cultivated Which Amarallys? It is Amaryllis Amadeus Striped.  One link for Hippeastrum Double Flowering ‘Striped Amadeus’ https://www.netherlandbulb.com/bulb/hippeastrum-Double-Flowering-Striped-Amadeus

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Haworthia pygmaea (Cultivated)

Haworthia pygmaea Poelln., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 27: 132 1929. (syn: Haworthia esterhuizenii M.Hayashi; Haworthia pygmaea f. crystallina Pilbeam, exact type not cited.; Haworthia pygmaea var. esterhuizenii (M.Hayashi) Breuer);   SW. Cape Prov. as per WCSP; SK1142 25 MAY 2018 : 8 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (5) Location:  Soureni, India  Date: 7 May  2018 Altitude: […]

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Rosaceae member ?- Manipur

  Fwd: Species collected from Manipur 1 : 4 posts by 1 author. Attachments (1) – 5 Mb. I am sending herewith photographs of two species collected from Manipur for identity No.1 is resembling Laurocerasus undulata Pl. check with https://www.flickr.com/photos/101462471@N03/15402948004 http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_dc9502ab0102wisx.html http://petype.myspecies.info/file-colorboxed/8791 http://petype.myspecies.info/file-colorboxed/8790 http://petype.myspecies.info/taxonomy/term/4024  It is right I think. Its fruit is edible. The fruit […]

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Sempervivum arachnoideum (Cultivated)

Sempervivum arachnoideum L., Sp. Pl. 465 1753. (syn: Sedum arachnoideum E.H.L.Krause; Sempervivum arachnoideum var. doellianum (C. B. Lehm.) Jaccard; Sempervivum arachnoideum subsp. doellianum (C. B. Lehm.) Nyman; Sempervivum arachnoideum var. glabrescens Willk.; Sempervivum barbulatum ; Sempervivum barbulatum subsp. etruscum D.Donati & G.Dumont; Sempervivum doellianum C.B.Lehm.; Sempervivum fauconnetti Reut.; Sempervivum hausmannii Auersd. ex Nyman; Sempervivum heterotrichum […]

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Nandanom, the Garden of Gods

Fwd: A BOOK for You : 1 post by 1 author. Notion Press Proudly Presents Nandanom, The Garden of Gods A narrational odyssey on sacred plants By P.N. Ravindran   Prof. MS Swaminathan FRS (the greatest agricultural scientist of India and a great social reformist, ranked along with Gandhiji and Tagore by the Time Magazine), writes […]

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Maianthemum fuscum

Maianthemum fuscum (Wall.) LaFrankie, Taxon 35: 588 1986. (syn: Maianthemum fuscum var. cordatum R.Li & H.Li; Maianthemum fuscum f. papillosum (H.Hara) Karthik.; Maianthemum fuscum var. pilosum (H.Hara) Karthik.; Medora divaricata Kunth [Illegitimate]; Smilacina bootanensis Griff.; Smilacina finitima (W.W.Sm.) F.T.Wang & Tang; Smilacina fusca Wall.; Smilacina fusca var. fusca ; Smilacina fusca f. papillosa H.Hara; Smilacina […]

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Dendrobium anosmum

Dendrobium anosmum Lindl., Edwards’s Bot. Reg. 31(Misc.): 32 1845. (syn: Callista anosma (Lindl.) Kuntze; Callista scortechinii (Hook.f.) Kuntze; Dendrobium anosmum var. dearei (Rolfe) Ames & Quisumb.; Dendrobium anosmum var. huttonii (Rchb.f.) Ames & Quisumb.; Dendrobium dayanum Grindon; Dendrobium leucorhodum Schltr.; Dendrobium macranthum Miq. [Illegitimate]; Dendrobium macrophyllum Lindl. [Illegitimate]; Dendrobium retusum Llanos [Illegitimate]; Dendrobium scortechinii Hook.f.; […]

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Neoregelia spectabilis (Cultivated)

Neoregelia spectabilis (T.Moore) L.B.Sm., Contr. Gray Herb. 104: 79 1934. (syn: Aregelia spectabilis (T.Moore) Mez; Karatas spectabilis (T.Moore) Antoine; Nidularium eximium Baker [Invalid]; Nidularium spectabile T.Moore; Regelia spectabilis (T.Moore) Lindm.); Brazil (Espírito Santo to Rio de Janeiro) as per WCSP;   Neoregelia spectabilis (T.Moore) L.B.Sm. ?? : 6 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3)- around […]

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Rubiaceae member- Kebumen, Java, Indonesia

  Flowers of Java 13 : 6 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2) A small tree cultivated in Kebumen ca 21 m alt. ID is needed.  Other recipients: Not sure. But looks closure to Coffeea related plant. Not sure. But looks closure to Coffeea related plant. 

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Begonia cathcartii

Begonia cathcartii Hook.f. & Thomson, Ill. Himal. Pl. t. 13 1855. (syn: Begonia nemophila Kurz; Platycentrum cathcartii (Hook.f. & Thomson) Klotzsch); Bangladesh; East Himalaya; Myanmar; Thailand as per Catalogue of Life; Common name: Red-Hair Begonia Rootstocks rhizomatous. Stems up to 30cm, when young bearing coarse deflexed hairs with broad bases(leaving white lenticular scars where these […]

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Pegia nitida

Pegia nitida Colebr., Trans. Linn. Soc. London 15(2): 364–365 1827. (syn: Phlebochiton extensum Wall.; Robergia hirsuta Roxb.; Tapirira extensa (Wall.) Hook. f. ex Marchand; Tapirira hirsuta (Roxb.) Hook. f.; Tapirira hirsuta (Roxb.) Hu); China (S-Yunnan, SW-Guizhou, W-Guangxi), N-Thailand, India (Darjeeling, Assam, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Tripura, Meghalaya), Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar [Burma] (Kachin, Magway, Sagaing, […]

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