Please note and act smart : 2 posts by 2 authors. Please note this email and try to circulate. I feel, we shall share it (or such information on) ‘Indian Flora’ I would like to appeal everyone here… Dear botanist and plant loving friends, Kindly note that, due to our facebook postings in group or […]
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Deutzia species- Kalimpong, West Bengal
Flowers for ID (240809 NJ) : 3 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1) for ID please. Photo taken at Kalimpong in APR-09 Could be Deutzia compacta from Hydrangea family http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Compact%20Deutzia.html Seeing more of leaves, I can be a bit more confident.
Deutzia species/ hybrids
Pathibhara Mata Trip
Pathibhara Mata Trip : 5 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (8) I was on a week pilgrimage trip to the Pathibhara Mata shrine situated at 13000 ft at the east boarder of Nepal. The trail was covered by different species of Rhododendron which bloomed up to lower belt 11000 ft. plus and yet to bloom […]
Magnolia rabaniana
Magnolia rabaniana (Hook.f. & Thomson) D.C.S.Raju & M.P.Nayar, Indian J. Bot. 3: 171 1980. (syn: Talauma rabaniana Hook.f. & Thomson); Sikkim to Myanmar as per WCSP; Trees with a conical crown, about 50-70 ft tall, girth of about 4-6 ft. Bark dark gray, rough fibrous and uniformly light brown inside and 1.2-2 cm thick, branchlets […]
Emilia reddyi
Emilia reddyi Satish and Prakasarao, Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, Volume 10, Issue 1, 1 March 2017, Pages 104–111; Fwd: Emilia reddyi- New Plant species found in Eastern Ghats : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (5) I am very happy to inform you that I and my beloved student and also best friend Dr. K.V.Sathish (NRSA, […]
Indigofera species- Surbinayak, Gundu, Nepal
SK460 29 MAR-2017:ID : 6 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (8) Location: Surbinayak, Gundu, Nepal Date: 28 March 2017 Altitude: 5300 ft. Indigofera.. ??? I think yes. Pl. Check comparative images in efi. Its Indigofera species. I think this is Indigofera dosua To me these look different from images at Indigofera dosua D.Don Pl. […]
Dichorisandra penduliflora
Dichorisandra penduliflora Kunth, Enum. Pl. 4: 114 1843. (syn: Stickmannia penduliflora (Kunth) Kuntze); Native to NE. Brazil as per WCSP; Ornamental for ID :: ARKMAR-04 : 9 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2) Saw this ornamental in a nursery in Karjat in Dec 2014. The pics are not very clear. However, is it possible […]
Grewia species ?- Thrissur, Kerala
Id note the flower : 7 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1) Is it also from Arunachal? Thanks. But image size is very very small. Pl. Post at least 800 by 600 pixel image. Sorry I have only this image. It sended by some of my friends from their forest visit Check for Grewia species […]
Rhynchosia species- Nairobi, Kenya
Fabaceae For ID : Nairobi, Kenya ; 17APR17 : AK-08 : 8 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (2) Seen growing wild in a Baby Elephant orphanage in Nairobi on 3rd July, 2016. Rhynchosia? Rhynchosia is convincing, beautiful record …!! Thanks … The closest I have got to is Rhynchosia insignis from the following […]
82nd Tree Appreciation Walk in ST Jeseph Baptiasta Garden, Dockyard Road
82nd Tree Appreciation Walk in ST Jeseph Baptiasta Garden, Dockyard Road, at 7.30 am : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) Dear Friends, Ah! summer, what power you have here to make us suffer……we invite you all to escape ffrom this heat for some time, among the tall trees and dancing flowers of St […]
Viola species- Nepal
Looks like a cyclamen to my uneducated eyes but flowering in March at 1800 metres : 4 posts by 3 authors. no images seen now. I am afraid I couldn’t get the camera to focus properly. I couldn’t find any references to Cyclamens in Nepal but neither could I find anything like this in my Concise […]
Dodecadenia grandiflora
Dodecadenia grandiflora Nees, Pl. Asiat. Rar. 2: 63 1831. (syn: Actinodaphne monantha (Yang & P.H. Huang) H.P. Tsui; Laurus macrophylla D. Don; Laurus pallens Meisn.; Laurus pubescens D. Don ex Nees; Litsea grandiflora (Nees) Kosterm.; Litsea monantha Yen C. Yang & P.H. Huang; Tetranthera grandiflora Wall.); China (W-Sichuan, NW-Yunnan), SE-Tibet, Nepal, Myanmar [Burma] (Chin, Kachin, […]
Dodecadenia
Dodecadenia grandiflora Nees
Mimosa polyancistra
Mimosa polyancistra Benth. (syn: Mimosa hystricosa Brandegee); India (I) ; Andhra Pradesh; Tamil Nadu; Mexico (U) as per ILDIS; This taxon is known predominately from pine-oak and tropical montane deciduous woodland. This taxon is endemic to Mexico found from Sinaloa to Chiapas Province. Citation: Groom, A. 2012. Mimosa adenantheroides. The IUCN Red List of Threatened […]
Exploring behind the Himalayas – Saroj Kasaju
Exploring behind the Himalayas – Saroj Kasaju : 5 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (4) Been out of touch as I was exploring behind the Himalayas for about a week though it was a month or so earlier for flowering season to start. However, I would be posting leaves of plants if it could be […]
Eriocaulon parvicephalum
Eriocaulon parvicephalum ASHWINI M. DARSHETKAR, MANDAR N. DATAR, SHUBHADA TAMHANKAR, RITESH KUMAR CHOUDHARY, Phytotaxa Vol 303, No 3 (2017); Eriocaulon parvicephalum ASHWINI M. DARSHETKAR, MANDAR N. DATAR, SHUBHADA TAMHANKAR, RITESH KUMAR CHOUDHARY Eriocaulon parvicephalum_New species from Maharashtra, India_RKC_13042017 : 8 posts by 8 authors. Attachments (1) Sharing an image of Eriocaulon parvicephalum (Eriocaulaceae), a newly described species by […]
Request For contribution to Plant Discoveries 2016
Fwd: Request For contribution to Plant Discoveries 2016 : 2 posts by 2 authors. Greetings from Botanical Survey of India Sir, Hope you are doing well, as you know BSI documenting plant diversity of our country and publishing “Plant Discoveries” an dedicated annual compendium of new species, new records for Angiosperms, Gymnosperms, Pteridophytes, Bryophytes, Lichens,Fungi, Algae and […]
74. Efloraofindia website updated upto 31st March’17
Efloraofindia website updated upto 31st March’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 2,67,300 messages so far & membership currently around […]
