Melastoma species ?- Banglore, Karnataka

  Fwd: Pictures of Ornament plants 2 : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) – 7 MB. Sir, can you please identify and share the common and botanical names of this ornamental plant? please find the attached pictures. Attachments (1) – 6 MB. Foliage resembles: Melastoma sps 

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Vitis heyneana ?

Vitis heyneana Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veg. 5: 318 1819. (syn: Vitis ficifolia var. pentagona Pamp.; Vitis heyneana var. glabra (Parker) H. B. Naithani & S. Biswas; Vitis kelungensis Momiy.; Vitis kiusiana Momiyama; Vitis lanata Roxb.; Vitis lanata var. glabra Parker; Vitis pentagona Diels & Gilg; Vitis pentagona var. honanensis Rehder; Vitis quinquangularis Rehder; Vitis […]

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Nymphoides krishnakesara var. bispinosa

Nymphoides krishnakesara var. bispinosa P. Biju, E. J. Josekutty, K. A. Muhammed Haneef and Jomy Augustine, Telopea Vol 20 (2017); Nymphoides krishnakesara var. bispinosa (Menyanthaceae), a new taxon from Kerala : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) – Nymphoides.pdf Please find attached a PDF of a recently published paper as above which may be […]

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Kleinia subrahmanianii

Kleinia subrahmanianii Chandrasseril Narayanan Sunil, V V Naveen Kumar, Thyppokkath Sundaram Rajeev, M K Ratheesh Narayana, V P Prasad, Telopea Vol 20 (2017); Kleinia subrahmanianii (Asteraceae: Senecioneae), a new species from Kerala : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) – Kleinia subramanyamii.pdf- 1 MB. Please find attached a PDF of a recently published paper […]

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Impatiens tatoensis

Impatiens tatoensis Rajib Gogoi, Souravjyoti Borah, Dr. Wojciech Adamowski, Telopea Vol 20 (2017); Impatiens tatoensis (Balsaminaceae): a new species from Arunachal Pradesh : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) – Impatiens tatoensis.pdf- 1 MB. Please find attached a PDF of a recently published paper as above which may be found useful. References: Impatiens tatoensis […]

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DEW DROPS ON COB WEB/ ROSE

Fwd: DEW DROPS ON COB WEB/ ROSE : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (1) In my school days there were some poems in our syllabus (I am talking about a period 1958-63 when I was a student of Dutt High School, Netrakona. The school was under Board of Intermediate and Secondary  Education, Dacca) where […]

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BEAUTY OF A DEW DROP ON A BLADE OF GRASS(RABINDRANATH TAGORE)

BEAUTY OF A DEW DROP ON A BLADE OF GRASS( RABINDRANATH TAGORE ): 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (1) Those who are familiar with writings of poet Tagore knows that autumn is one of his favorite season. Quite often he describes beauty of dew drops. One such composition is attached with image of dew […]

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Calystegia sepium (USA)

Calystegia sepium (L.) R. Br., Prodr. 483 1810. (syn: Aniseia arifolia Meisn.; Calystegia rosea Phil.; Calystegia sepium subsp. americana (Sims) Brummitt ….; Convolvulus sepium L. .; Volvulus sepium (L.) Junger .);   Calystegia sepium : Convolvulaceae : New Jersey,US : 10SEP17 : AK-03 : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2) Seen in New Jersey on the 20th of June,17. […]

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Vigna silvestris ?

Vigna silvestris ?; SGNP, Sep 2014 :: Requesting ID of this (Vigna)? :: ARKSEP-32 : 5 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (2). Requesting to please ID this plant captured at Kanheri Caves, SGNP in Sep 2014. Is it Vigna radiata var. sublobata? May be Vigna sp Vigna radiata (L.) R.Wilczek  Thank you … for ID… Only the fruits would […]

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Impatiens capensis (USA/ Canada)

Impatiens capensis Meerb., Afb. Zeldz. Gew. t. 10 1775. (syn: Balsamina capensis (Meerb.) DC.; Balsamina fulva Ser.; Chrysaea biflora (Walter) Nieuwl. & Lunell; Impatiens biflora Walter; Impatiens capensis f. capensis ; Impatiens fulva Nutt. (unresolved)); Impatiens capensis : New Jersey,US : 10SEP17 : AK-01 : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (4) Posting after a long […]

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79. Efloraofindia website updated upto 31st August’17

Efloraofindia website updated upto 31st August’17- more than 12,000 species : 1 post by 1 author. It’s heartening to reiterate that Efloraofindia is the largest google e-group/ forum in the world in this field & the largest nature related e-group (and the most constructive) in India with around 2,76,700 messages so far & membership currently […]

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Dr. Bhaskar Veeralinga- An obituary

Sad News of Dr V. Bhaskara’s passing : 15 posts by 3 authors. I just heard the sad news of Dr. V. Bhaskara’s passing. He was suffering from Cancer during the last few months but was still actively engaged in research. I just received a call from Dr. Prabhu informing his sad demise. He will […]

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Flora Walk in Biodiversity Park, Gurgaon

Fwd: Flora Walk in Biodiversity Park, Gurgaon on 10th Sep, 2017 : 1 post by 1 author. This coming Sunday 10th Sep, 2017, Vijay Dhasmana will walk us through the beautiful flora of Aravali Biodiversity Park in Gurgaon. It’s a great opportunity to learn. Things to carry : Hand Lens, Notepad, pencil/penTiming : 6:30 – 9:30. We […]

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RABINDRA SANGIT : Koel

Fwd: RABINDRA SANGIT : CUCKOO-7 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (1) Here is translation of another song. Translated by Rumela Sengupta. Piko is the bird in original song.

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Thismia nigricoronata (Laos)

Thismia nigricoronata PANKAJ KUMAR, STEPHAN W. GALE, JI-HONG LI, SOMSANITH BOUAMANIVONG, GUNTER A. FISCHER– Phytotaxa Vol 319, No 3 (2017); Thismia nigricoronata a new species from Laos : 5 posts by 5 authors. Attachments (2) – 61 2017 Thismia nigricoronata PHYTOTAXA.pdf- 2 MB. One of our article got published just now.It is my first attempt […]

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Malaria alert

Malaria alert, especially for field botanists in Northeastern India : 4 posts by 4 authors. Just to alert you about the malaria issues. Three of our staffs who went to Cambodia for field work are now admitted to hospital for malarial infection. Diagnosis is still on. Two years back one of my good friends, Dr. […]

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Training Course on Plant Systematics

Fwd:Traning Course on Plant Systematics : 1 post by 1 author. 1 attachment. Greetings from CSIR-NBRI !!  I am happy to inform you that the CSIR-NBRI, Lucknow is organizing a training course on “Classical and Modern Methods in Plant Taxonomy and Biosystematics” in the Institute from December 1-8, 2017, for young students and faculties, who […]

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Viscum orientale

Viscum orientale Willd. (syn: Viscum montanum Zoll. & Mor.; Viscum navicellatum Korth.; Viscum pamattonis Korth.; Viscum roxburghianum Korth.; Viscum verticillatum Roxb.; Viscum verticilliflorum Royle); Myanmar [Burma] (Ayeyarwady, Magway, Shan), S-India (Bihar, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu), Andamans, Sri Lanka, Vietnam as per Catalogue of Life; Common name: Oriental Mistletoe • […]

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