Impatiens species- Kalinchowk, Dolakha, Nepal

  SK311JAN09-2016:ID : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3) Location: Kalinchowk, Dolakha, Nepal Altitude: 9000 ft. Date: 24 July 2014 Impatiens … ???? Unfortunately, with only front view it is impossible to determine this balsam correctly… Unfortunately  the plant was on a precarious slope and could not go closer.  Actually I did not want to […]

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Croton sublyratus

Croton sublyratus Kurz, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 42(2): 243 1873. (syn: Oxydectes sublyrata (Kurz) Kuntze); Andaman Is., Myanmar as per WCSP;   Croton sublyratus Kurz (Euphorbiaceae) from South Andaman Island : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) Common deciduous trees in inland forests, up to 5 m high on clayey […]

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Megacarpaea polyandra

Megacarpaea polyandra Benth. ex Madden, Hooker’s J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 7: 356 1855.; Robust, much branched perennial herbs or undershrubs, sparsely pubescent with simple short trichomes or glabrous, up to 60 cm tall. Rootstocks thick, taproot. Stem erect, simple near the base, branched above. Leaves oblanceolate to oblong in outline, with linear lanceolate-oblong lobes, […]

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Nymphaea ‘St. Louis Gold’

Fwd: Water Lily on Dal Lake – ‘St. Louis Gold’ cultivar? : 1 post by 1 author. Further to my recent post.  So just what Nymphaeas are found in Dal Lake? I have just come across a letter from the late Mary Briggs past Secretary of what is now the Botanical Society of Britain & […]

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Ludwigia sedioides (Cultivated)

Ludwigia sedioides (Humb. & Bonpl.) H.Hara, J. Jap. Bot. 28: 294 1953. (syn: Jussiaea sedoides Humb. & Bonpl.); Guyana, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Ecuador, Panama, Bolivia (Beni, Santa Cruz), Colombia (Antioquia, Casanare, Crdoba, Cundinamarca, Meta, Tolima, Valle, Vichada), Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico (Campeche, Chiapas, Tabasco, Veracruz), El Salvador, Cuba, N-Brazil (Roraima, Amapa, Para, Acre), NE-Brazil (Maranhao, […]

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green city solutions

interesting idea worth imitating : 1 post by 1 author. english: http://greencitysolutions.de/english/ German http://greencitysolutions.de/stadt/ naturally there is much more information available in German.

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Viola species- Jomsom, Mustang, Nepal

  SK298JAN05-2016:ID : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (3) Location: Jomsom, Mustang, Nepal Altitude: 9000 ft. Date: 22 April 2013 Apology in advance . No leaf image. Viola…..??? Viola sp. Yes it is but which one ?

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Rhazya stricta

Rhazya stricta Decne., Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. II, 4: 80 1835. ; Arabian Pen., S. Iran to NW. India as per WCSP;   Rhazya stricta : Apocynaceae : Oman : 30DEC16 : AK-52 : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (4) Adding a new plant in Eflora Database. Rhazia stricta, a native plant of Oman. […]

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S. Korea- Seoul- herb

  SK221DEC03-2016:ID : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (6) Location : Seoul, S. Korea Altitude : 150 ft. Date : 24 November, 2016 ID ??

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Eriocaulon species- amba ghat, Kolhapur disrtict, Maharastra

  Please ID : 5 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1) Please identify this plant Found in amba ghat, Kolhapur district. There are at least three plants, one seems to be a grass, other (blue flower) Utricularia sp. and third Eriocaulon sp…..though, the image highlights none of them well.

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Taraxacum species- Jomsom, Mustang, Nepal

  Taraxacum mitalii Soest (provisionally accepted name) ??/ : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1) Location: Jomsom, Mustang, Nepal Altitude:  9200 ft. Date: 22 April 2013 Apology in advance as this is the only image I have. Taraxacum is SUCH a challenging genus and so poorly studied in the Himalaya that I am not […]

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Saxifraga stenophylla

Saxifraga stenophylla Royle, Ill. Bot. Himal. Mts. 227, pl. 50, f. 1 1835. (syn: Saxifraga flagellaris f. alta Engl. & Irmsch.; Saxifraga flagellaris subsp. euflagellaris Engl. & Irmsch.; Saxifraga flagellaris f. humilis Engl. & Irmsch.; Saxifraga flagellaris f. pauciflora Engl. & Irmsch.; Saxifraga flagellaris subsp. stenophylla (Royle) Hultén; Saxifraga flagellaris var. stenosepala Trautv.); Common name: […]

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Crepidifolium tenuifolium ?

Crepidifolium tenuifolium (Willd.) Sennikov, Sennikov in Bot. Zhurn. 92. 2007 1752 2007. (syn: Barkhausia tenuifolia (Willd.) DC.; Berinia tenuifolia (Willd.) Sch.Bip.; Brachyderea tenuifolia (Willd.) Sch.Bip.; Chondrilla baicalensis (Ledeb.) Sch.Bip.; Crepidiastrum tenuifolium (Willd.) Sennikov; Crepidifolium altaicum (Babc. & Stebbins) Tzvelev; Crepidifolium diversifolium (Spreng.) Tzvelev; Crepis altaica (Babc. & Stebbins) Roldugin; Crepis baicalensis Ledeb.; Crepis diversifolia (Spreng.) […]

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Hymenidium amabile

Hymenidium amabile (Craib & W. W. Sm.) M. G. Pimenov & F. V. Kljuykov (syn: Pleurospermum amabile Craib ex W. W. Sm.); SE-Tibet, China (Sichuan, W-Yunnan), Bhutan, Chumbi, India (E-Himalaya) as per Catalogue of Life;   Fwd: Pleurospermum amabile specimen in Bhutan : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (1) Further to my posting of links […]

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