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Acalypha siamensis (Malyasia)
Acalypha siamensis Oliv. ex Gage, Rec. Bot. Surv. India 9: 238 1922. (syn: Acalypha evrardii Gagnep.; Acalypha siamensis var. denticulata Airy Shaw; Acalypha sphenophylla Pax & K.Hoffm. [Illegitimate]); Indo-China to Sumatera as per WCSP; SK390 19FEB-2017:ID : 7 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (9) Location: Kualalumpur, Malyasia Altitude: 180 ft. Date: 23 February 2017 […]
Renanthera hybrids- Flower Show, Mumbai
Orchid For ID : Flower Show,Mumbai : 06FEB17 : AK-11 : 8 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (1) Orchid seen at the Flower Show in Mumbai on 13th Jan. For id please. It appears to be Arachnis sp. We will wait for experts opinion. Another hybrid of Renanthera
Renanthera hybrids
Lonicera maackii (China)
Lonicera maackii (Rupr.) Maxim., Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg Divers Savans 136 1859. (syn: Caprifolium maackii (Rupr.) Kuntze; Lonicera maackii (Rupr.) Herd. (ambiguous synonym); Lonicera maackii f. podocarpa Franch. ex Rehder; Xylosteum maackii Rupr.); SK383 17FEB-2017:ID : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3) Location: AIBO, Beijing, China Altitude: 100 ft. Date: 19 October 2014 […]
Hetaeria affinis
Hetaeria affinis (Griff.) Seidenf. & Ormerod, Oasis Suppl. 2: 9 2001. (syn: Cerochilus rubens Lindl.; Goodyera affinis Griff.; Hetaeria rubens (Lindl.) Hook.f.; Rhamphidia rubens (Lindl.) Lindl.); E. Himalaya to SC. China and Indo-China as per WCSP; MS Feb.2017/02 Hetaria sp. for ID : 5 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2) Location : Dampui, MizoramDate : 02-03-2016 & […]
Campanula immodesta
Campanula immodesta Lammers, Novon 8: 34 1998. (syn: Campanula modesta Hook.f. & Thomson [Illegitimate]); Himalaya to China (SW. Sichuan, NW. Yunnan) as per WCSP; Campanula immodesta from Uttarakhand_DSR_Feb. 2017 : 11 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1) This species was photographed while I was a research student and collecting plants from Chaturangi glacier valley […]
Polygonatum nervulosum
Polygonatum nervulosum Baker, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 14: 557 1875.; E. Himalaya as per WCSP; Polygonatum nervulosum : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (1) I have attached several images of Polygonatum species native to the Indian Himalaya. Please use them for the website. References: Catalogue of Life The Plant List Ver.1.1 WCSP […]
Polygonatum cathcartii
Polygonatum cathcartii Baker, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 14: 559 1875.; Nepal to SC. China as per WCSP; Polygonatum cathcartii : 1 post by 1 author. I have attached several images of Polygonatum species native to the Indian Himalaya. Please use them for the website. Thanks a lot, … This is a great help. […]
Polygonatum brevistylum
Polygonatum brevistylum Baker, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 14: 556 1875. ; Nepal to Darjiling as per WCSP; Polygonatum brevistylum : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (3) I have attached several images of Polygonatum species native to the Indian Himalaya. Please use them for the website. References: Catalogue of Life The Plant List […]
Polygonatum luteoverrucosum
Polygonatum luteoverrucosum Aaron Jennings Floden- Phytotaxa Vol 236, No 3- 1 December 2015; Polygonatum luteoverrucosum: 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (2) I have attached several images of Polygonatum species native to the Indian Himalaya. Please use them for the website. Thanks a lot, … This is a great help. References: Three new Solomon’s Seals (Polygonatum: […]
Polygonatum angelicum
Polygonatum angelicum Aaron Jennings Floden- Phytotaxa Vol 236, No 3- 1 December 2015; Polygonatum angelicum : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (2) I have attached several images of Polygonatum species native to the Indian Himalaya. Please use them for the website. Thanks a lot, … This is a great help. References: Three new Solomon’s Seals […]
Impatiens panduranganii
Impatiens panduranganii KM Prabhu Kumar et al., Phytotaxa 296 (3): 281–286 (2017); I. mankulamensis sp. nov. and I. panduranganii sp. nov.- Two new taxa of Impatiens (Balsaminaceae) from southern parts of Western Ghats, India : 2 posts by 2 authors. Two new taxa of Impatiens (Balsaminaceae) from southern parts of Western Ghats, India are published […]
Impatiens mankulamensis
Impatiens mankulamensis KM Prabhu Kumar et al., Phytotaxa 296 (3): 281–286 (2017); I. mankulamensis sp. nov. and I. panduranganii sp. nov.- Two new taxa of Impatiens (Balsaminaceae) from southern parts of Western Ghats, India : 2 posts by 2 authors. Two new taxa of Impatiens (Balsaminaceae) from southern parts of Western Ghats, India are published […]
Id please- 060217RS- 1
Fwd: Id please- 060217RS- 1 : 2 posts by 1 author. Attachments (1) Thanks & welcome, … Pl. mention place, date, habitat etc. for proper Id.
An umbrella is a sensible thing to use for shade from the intense sun at high elevations
Fwd: Chris Chadwell ‘hard at work’ leading a botanical tour in Lahaul in the mid-1980s! : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) Here with an image scanned in from a slide taken during a botanical tour I led in the Miyah Nullah, Lahaul, H.P. more than 30 years ago. I am on the far […]
Identifying plants from a train window….
Fwd: Identifying plants from a train window…. : 3 posts by 2 authors. Earlier this week I was on the south coast of England lecturing about how to grow Himalayan alpines. To help pass the time on the train journey back to London I looked out of the very large windows the carriage I was travelling in had, […]
Vanda hybrids- Flower Show, Mumbai
Orchid For ID : Flower Show,Mumbai : 06FEB17 : AK-9 : 5 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1) Another Cultivated Orchid seen at the Flower Show on 13th Jan. This is an interesting hybrid with Vanda and Aerides I think. I am no good at hybrids. You will be surprised that it took 15-20 […]
Astragalus himalayanus ?
Astragalus himalayanus ?; Fwd: Astragalus ??himalayanus : 1 post by 1 author. I have 5 images taken by Krishan Lal, clearly of two separate plants – no locations provided (though would have been somewhere in H.P.) both identified as A.himalayanus -presumably by an expert in the genus. However, to my eye they clearly belong to separate […]
Ligularia species- China
SK363 02FEB-2017:ID : 5 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2) Location: China Date : 29 October 2014 Altitude : 100 ft. Senecio ….??? Pl. check comparative images at Ligularia Looks like but could not close on into the proper ID among the vast numbers of China. Yeah, you are right.
