Thistle For ID : Kenya : 11DEC16 : AK-27 : 5 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2) Kindly help in identifying this wild Thistle. Seen in the first week of July in Kenya. Pl. check comparative images at Carduoideae if it helps. Pl. check Carduus edelbergii Rech.f. or Onopordum acanthium L. or similar species from your local […]
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Mallotus species- Uttarakannada
uk plant for id 8 : 9 posts by 5 authors. Attachments (1) requesting one more flowering plant for identifiaction seen at uttarakannada Seems to be Mallotus sp. … looks like Mallotus philippensis Can it be Mallotus tetracoccus (Roxb.) Kurz as per images herein ? I am unable to identify the species from such an obscure image.
Jasminum species- Nairobi, Kenya
Jasminum Species For ID : Nairobi,Kenya : 18DEC16 : AK-35 : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1) Jasminum Species seen in the first week of July. Help in Species id please. I have only this picture. It may be Jasminum sambuc. …, thanks for suggested id. Leaves look different.
Euphorbia epiphylloides
Euphorbia epiphylloides Kurz, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 42(2): 247 1873. ; An unarmed succulent tree which was recorded, up to 1977, as locally common in several localities. Recent surveys have been less successful in locating the species. In total no more than 250 plants exist around Saddle Peak on North Andaman, […]
Syzygium smithii (Cultivated- USA)
Syzygium smithii (Poir.) Nied., Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(7): 85 1893. (syn: Acmena elliptica G.Don ex Steud.; Acmena elliptica G.Benn.; Acmena floribunda var. elliptica A.Cunn. ex DC.; Acmena kingii G.Don; Acmena pendula G.Benn.; Acmena smithii (Poir.) Merr. & L.M.Perry; Acmena smithii var. minor (Maiden) Merr. & L.M.Perry; Eugenia elliptica Sm. [Illegitimate]; Eugenia smithii Poir.; Eugenia smithii var. […]
Fourth Indian Biodiversity Congress (IBC 2017) during 10-12 March 2017 at Puducherry
Fwd: Fourth Indian Biodiversity Congress (IBC 2017) during 10-12 March 2017 at Puducherry – reg. : Attachments (1) Fourth Indian Biodiversity Congress – (IBC -2017) 10-12 March 2017| Pondicherry University Convention Centre, Puducherry www.indianbiodiversity.co.in CISSA/IBC /IV/College/16 5-12-2016 Dear Sir, Sub: Fourth Indian Biodiversity Congress (IBC 2017) during 10-12 March […]
Chorispora
Impatiens pendula
Impatiens pendula Heyne ex Wight & Arn., Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient. 1: 136 1834.; Common name: Hanging Balsam Erect flaccid herbs, 10-15 cm high; branches with a line of pubescence. Leaves alternate, 6-12 mm long, ovate, elliptic-ovate or subcordate at base, acute at apex, serrate, sparsely hairy above, glabrous below; petioles short. Flowers axillary, solitary, […]
Tragia hispida
Tragia hispida Willd., Sp. Pl. 4: 323 1805. (syn: Tragia involucrata var. hispida (Willd.) Müll.Arg.); Uttarakhand to Bangladesh as per WCSP; True Tragia hispida Willd. (Euphorbiaceae) : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) I am attaching herewith an image of the true Tragia hispida – much misinterpreted/ misidentified in most of the Indian […]
Argyreia lawii
Argyreia lawii C. B. Cl., Fl. Brit. India [J. D. Hooker] iv. 190. ; Argyreia FOR ID :: Charmadi Ghat :: 12 NOV 2016 :: DVDEC11 : 5 posts by 3 authors. 6 images. Charmadi Ghat Karnataka Date: 12 NOV 2016 … Altitude: explored between: 873 – 976 m (2863 – 3201 ft) asl Argyreia ¿ species ? … […]
Pachystoma
Inula rhizocephala
Inula rhizocephala Schrenk, Enum. Pl. Nov. 1: 51. 1841. (Syn: Conyza rhizocephala (Schrenk) Rupr. ; Inula rhizocephala var. intermedia Kitam.; Inula rhizocephala var. rhizocephaloides (C.B.Clarke) Kitam.); Common name: Stemless Inula Fwd: Inula rhizocephala var. rhizocephaloides (C.B.Clarke) Kitam. : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (2) Another first for eFI. Unfortunately, I only have a couple of […]
Colutea
Silene moorcroftiana
Silene moorcroftiana Wall. ex Benth., Ill. Bot. Himal. Mts. 79 1834. (syn: Silene gyirongensis L.H. Zhou; Silene persica subsp. moorcroftiana (Wall. ex Benth.) Chowdhuri); Common name: Moorcroft Campion W-Tibet, Afghanistan, Jammu & Kashmir (Ladakh, Zanskar, Kashmir), India (Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh), Pakistan (Kurram, Chitral, Swat, Hazara), Pakistani Kashmir (Astor, Gilgit, Baltistan), Nepal as per Catalogue […]
Rosularia alpestris
Rosularia alpestris (Kar. & Kir.) Boriss., Fl. URSS 9: 129 1939. (syn: Cotyledon alpestris (Kar. & Kir.) O. & B. Fedtsch.; Rhodiola durisii (R.-Hamet) Fu ; Rhodiola nuristanica (Kit.) Jacobsen ; Rhodiola nuristanica (Kitamura) Jacobsen ; Rosularia kokanica (Regel & Schmalh.) A. Boriss. ; Rosularia schischkinii A. Boriss. ; Rosularia tadzhikistana A. Boriss.; Rosularia umbilicoides […]
Ex-Situ CONSERVATION OF KASHMIR FLORA – a lost opportunity
Fwd: Ex-Situ CONSERVATION OF KASHMIR FLORA – a lost opportunity. : 3 posts by 2 authors. B.O.Coventry is known for his 3 Series ‘Wild Flowers of Kashmir’ originally published in the late 1920s and early 1930s illustrating with remarkable quality colour photos for the period, a selection of Kashmir Flowers. Bernard Coventry was Conservator of Forests in Kashmir […]
Cicer microphyllum
Cicer microphyllum Benth. (syn: Cicer jacquemontii Jaub. & Spach; Cicer songaricum (uct. non (DC.) Bunge); Common name: Himalayan Chickpea Afghanistan (N); China (N); Xinjiang Uygur ; Xizang Zizhiqu; India (N) ; Himachal Pradesh ; Jammu-Kashmir ; Punjab; Uttar Pradesh; Nepal (N) ; Pakistan (N) as per ILDIS; Fwd: Cicer microphyllum : 1 post by […]
Arenaria globiflora
Arenaria globiflora (Fenzl) Wall. ex Edgew. & Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 238 1874. (syn: Cherleria grandiflora D.Don; Dolophragma globiflorum Fenzl); Nepal, Tibet as per Catalogue of Life; Fwd: Arenaria globiflora – endemic to Nepal : 1 post by 1 author. One of the ways I can best assist eFI is to increase its coverage of […]
Lavandula pinnata (Cultivated- USA)
Lavandula pinnata Lundmark, Lavandula 55 1780. (syn: Lavandula multifida var. pinnata (Lundmark) Kuntze; Lavandula pinnata f. incarnata Sunding; Lavandula pinnatifida Salisb.; Stoechas pinnata (Lundmark) Rchb.f.); Lavandula pinnata from Fremont, California-GSDEC2016/08 : 3 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (3) Lavandula pinnata L.f. Small shrub up to 50 cm tall, whole plant covered with felt of very […]
70. Efloraofindia website updated upto 30th Nov.’16
Efloraofindia website updated upto 30th Nov.’16- more than 11,000 species : 3 posts by 2 authors. 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 2,58,700 messages so far & membership currently […]
