Astragalus nivalis

Astragalus nivalis Kar. & Kir. (syn: Astragalus nathaliae V.V. Meffert; Astragalus orthanthoides Boriss.; Astragalus orthanthus Freyn; Astragalus thomsonianus Benth. ex Bunge; Tragacantha nivalis (Kar. & Kir.) Kuntze); Kazakhstan (Alma Ata, Chimkent, Dzhambul, Semipalatinsk), Tajikistan (Dushanbe), Kyrgyzstan, China (Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang), W-Tibet, NE-Afghanistan, Jammu & Kashmir (Ladakh, Zanskar), India (Himachal Pradesh) as per Catalogue of Life; Common […]

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Nandi Hills- wilderness around Bangalore

… wilderness around Bangalore : 3 posts by 2 authors. Wanted to know of nearest wilderness places around Bangalore (those which can be botanized in day’s trip). Nandi Hills would be a good option, in case you have not been there.   

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80th Tree Apprecation Walk at Rani Bagh, Byculla, Mumbai

80th Tree Apprecation Walk at Rani Bagh, Byculla, Mumbai on 26th Feb,17 at 8 am : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) It’s a saying in Mumbai…..”बाग़ों मे बाग़ रानी चा बाग़” Yes I am talking about Rani Bagh…. Victoria Garden….Pride of Mumbai… which has the combination of poetry and mystery with a feeling […]

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Cupaniopsis anacardioides (Introduced)

Cupaniopsis anacardioides (A.Rich.) Radlk., Sitzungsber. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. München 9: 585 1879. (syn: Cupania anacardioides A. Rich.);  Australia (N-Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, NE-New South Wales), New Guinea, India (introduced), USA (introduced) (Florida (introduced)) as per Catalogue of Life ; Cupaniopsis anacardioides, with common names tuckeroo, carrotwood, beach tamarind and green-leaved tamarind, is […]

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Cupaniopsis

Cupaniopsis anacardioides (A.Rich.) Radlk. (Introduced) (Australia (N-Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, NE-New South Wales), New Guinea, India (introduced), USA (introduced) (Florida (introduced)) as per Catalogue of Life)  

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Cardamine species- Kalinchowk, Dolakha, Nepal

  SK336JAN23-2017:ID : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3) Location: Kalinchowk, Dolakha, Nepal Altitude: 11000 ft. Date: 25 July 2014 Cardamine spp?? Does not seem to match with any species available in efi as per comparative images at Cardamine  

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72. Efloraofindia website updated upto 31st Jan.’17

Efloraofindia website updated upto 31st Jan.’17- more than 11,000 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 2,63,600 messages so far & membership currently […]

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Dactylorhiza umbrosa

Dactylorhiza umbrosa (Kar. & Kir.) Nevski, Trudy Bot. Inst. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Ser. 1, Fl. Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 4: 332 1937. (Syn: Dactylorchis sanasunitensis Soó; Dactylorchis umbrosa (Kar. & Kir.) Wendelbo; Dactylorhiza chuhensis Renz & Taubenheim; Dactylorhiza incarnata subsp. turcestanica (Klinge) H.Sund.; Dactylorhiza knorringiana (Kraenzl.) Ikonn.; Dactylorhiza kotschyi (Rchb.f.) P.F.Hunt & Summerh.; Dactylorhiza merovensis (Grossh.) […]

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Geranium species- Ladakh

  Fwd: Geraniums of Ladakh Part II : 11 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (4) Here with further images of Geraniums scanned in from slides taken in the 1980s: 1. White-flowered 2. White-flowered 3. Near Pensi La, Zanskar 4. Of known medicinal usage I would welcome the thoughts of members as to their identify?   I know […]

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Astragalus frigidus

Astragalus frigidus (L.) A.Gray (Syn: Astragalus frigidus subsp. frigidus ; Astragalus frigidus subsp. grigorjewii (B.Fedtsch.) Chater; Astragalus kolaensis Kuzen.; Phaca frigida L.; Phaca ochreata Crantz);   Austria, Slovakia, Faroer Isl., France, S-Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Romania, N-European Russia, Sweden, Siberia (Buryatia, Chita, Irkutsk, Yakutia), Kazakhstan, Russian Far East (Magadan), China (Xinjiang, Sichuan, Yunnan), India, […]

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Vanda hybrid- Mumbai

  Orchid For ID : Flower Show,Mumbai : 05FEB17 : AK-8 : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1) Cultivated Orchid seen at the Flower Show in Jijamata Udyan, Mumbai in the second week of Jan. This is a hybrid of Vanda.

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Sedum species- Cultivated in a pot in Shimla

  Sedum AT JAN 2017/05 : 7 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) Kindly identify this Sedum sp. Clicked with mobile somewhere in Himachal Pradesh April 2016 Small herb Differing from Sedum sexangulare and S. multicaule in leaf shape and texture It was cultivated in a pot, most probably in Shimla. I could not find […]

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Astragalus amherstianus

Astragalus amherstianus Benth. (syn: Astragalus lowarensis Ali; Tragacantha amherstiana (Benth.) Kuntze); Afghanistan (N); India (N) ; Himachal Pradesh ; Jammu-Kashmir ; Punjab; Uttar Pradesh; Iran (N); Nepal (N); Pakistan (N) as per ILDIS   Fwd: Astragalus amherstianus in Lahaul : 1 post by 1 author. Two images taken by the Late Krishan Lal at 3100m […]

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Impatiens stolonifera

Impatiens stolonifera M. MANUDEV, A.J. ROBI, SANTHOSH NAMPY- Pyhtotaxa Vol 295, No 1 (2017); Impatiens stolonifera (Balsaminaceae) A new scapigerous species from the southern Western Ghats, Kerala, India : 9 posts by 8 authors. Attachments (1)-  Impatiens stolonifera (Balsaminaceae) A new scapigerous species from the southern Western Ghats, Kerala, India.pdf- 1 MB   Please find our recent […]

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Colocasia species- Sirsi, Malnad area

  Colacasia for ID : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) Would like help in identifying the Colacasia in the attached pic. It is from the Malnad area (Sirsi) and is edible, the thin side shoots included.

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Jan.’2017

Members who inserted images in efi site in Jan.’2017 : 1 post by 1 author. Following members inserted images on a large number of efi pages as below: TSP Kumar- around 9 pages In addition, species & genera pages of the following families were also completed in this month:  Euphorbiaceae (completed in Jan’17) Number of images added on species pages has […]

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Clematis species- Kalinchowk, Dolakha, Nepal

  SK304JAN07-2016:ID : 6 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2) Location: Kalinchowk, Dolakha, Nepal Altitude: 9000 ft. Date: 26 July 2014 Clematis…??? I AM intending to comment about this and the other two Clematis in Nepal whose images have been posted in recent weeks.  I have taken an initial look at this Clematis but cannot, as things stand, […]

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