Senecio krascheninnikovii

Senecio krascheninnikovii Schischk., Not. Syst. Herb. Inst. Bot. Acad. Sci. URSS, xv. 410 (1953). (Syn: Senecio hindukushensis Kitam.; Senecio kashmirianus N.P.Balakr.; Senecio krascheninnikovii var. krascheninnikovii ; Senecio pedunculatus Edgew.; Senecio pedunculatus var. pedunculatus ; Senecio pedunculus Edgew.); Common name: Hindukush Senecio   Asteraceae Week (Part I – Radiate heads) ::Senecio dubitabilis?? at Ladakh :: PKA31:: :  Attachments […]

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Gentianopsis stricta

Gentianopsis stricta (Klotzsch) Ikonn., Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 6: 270 1970. (syn: Gentiana stricta Klotzsch; Gentiana vvedenskyi Grossh.; Gentianella vvedenskyi (Grossh.) H. Smith; Gentianopsis stricta (Klotzsch) Holub (ambiguous synonym); Gentianopsis vvedenskyi (Grossh.) V.V. Pis’yaukova); C-Asia, Tadjikistan, Mongolia, Turkestan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Pakistani Kashmir (Karakorum, Baltistan, Deosai, Gilgit as per Catalogue of Life;     Gentianopsis paludosa […]

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Plantago himalaica

Plantago himalaica Pilg. (syn: Plantago brachyphylla Edgew. ex Decne.; Plantago gentianoides Decne.); Pakistan (Hazara), Pakistani Kashmir (Baltistan, Skardu), Jammu & Kashmir (Ladakh, Zanskar, Kashmir), Nepal as per Catalogue of life; Common name: Himalayan Plantain • Hindi: अश्वकर्ण Ashwakarn • Sanskrit: अश्वकर्ण Ashwakarn   Plantago asiatic a Linnaeus : 7 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3) […]

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Lonicera semenovii

Lonicera semenovii Regel, Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 5(2): 608 1878. (syn: Caprifolium semenovii (Regel) Kuntze; Caprifolium thomsonii Kuntze; Lonicera glauca Hook. fil. & Thomson);   Ladakh flora 5. UP : 11 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (3) Other recipients: id pl, of the shrub with fruits. can it be Daphne retusa ? ushaprabha. id […]

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Eriocaulon species- near Junnar

  Please ID Erioculon species : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) Please help me to ID Erioculon species found in rocky habitat near junnar. Impossible without seeing it under microscope.

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Radermachera ignea

Radermachera ignea (Kurz) Steenis, Blumea 23: 127 1976. (Syn: Mayodendron igneum (Kurz) Kurz; Spathodea ignea Kurz); Assam to Taiwan and Indo-China as per WCSP;   Radermachera ignea (Kurz) Steenis : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (2) Sharing some pictures of  Radermachera ignea (Kurz) Steenis shot at Singapore on 19 October 2012 . Is ID correct […]

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Dinesh Valke

Sh. Dinesh Valke releases more than 20000 plant photos to Wikimedia Commons : 9 posts by 6 authors. Came across this post by V R Vinayaraj at Facebook. Sharing with you for your information pl. “We know Sri. Dinesh Valke is an ardent nature lover. He has been taking photos of plants for the last […]

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Platanthera latilabris ?

Platanthera latilabris ?;   Kailas Manasarovar Route::Habenaria Sp for ID NSJ-SEP 16/12 : 6 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2) A Habenaria Sp located near Sirkha camp at an altitude of around 8500 feet. An unexpected find in the region. I would request you to share a picture where I can see the spur. This […]

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Dactylicapnos roylei

Dactylicapnos roylei (Hook.f. & Thomson) Hutch., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1921: 104 1921. (syn: Capnorchis roylei (Hook. fil. & Thomson) Kuntze; Dicentra roylei Hook. fil. & Thomson); China (W-Sichuan, Yunnan), Bhutan, Sikkim, SE-Tibet, N-India (Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya), Nepal as per Catalogue of Life; Herbaceous climbing annual herbs, about 1 m long. Stems […]

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Ficus deltoidea

Ficus deltoidea Jack, Malayan Misc. 2(7): 71 1822. (syn: Erythrogyne lutescens (Desf.) Vis. ex Gasp.; Ficus deltoidea var. arenaria Corner; Ficus deltoidea var. bilobata Corner; Ficus deltoidea var. borneensis Corner; Ficus deltoidea var. lutescens (Desf.) Corner; Ficus deltoidea var. peltata Corner; Ficus deltoidea var. recurvata K.M. Kochummen; Ficus deltoidea var. trengganuensis Corner; Ficus diversifolia Bl.; […]

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Bioluminescent fungus

  Bioluminescent fungus : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2)   Bioluminescent fungus from Amboli, Sindhudurg, Maharashtra August 30, 2016 Closeup: Chorla Ghats, Goa June 2015

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Plantago asiatica subsp. erosa

Plantago asiatica subsp. erosa (Wallich) Z. Y. Li, Sp. Pl. 113 1753. (syn: Plantago centralis Pilg.; Plantago erosa Wall.); Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka as per Flora of China; China (Chongqing, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Qinghai, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan), Tibet, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Pakistan (Hazara, Murree), Jammu & Kashmir (Kashmir), Nepal, Sri […]

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Cereus species ?- Kenya

  Cactus For ID : Kenya : AK-06 : 6/06 : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) Photographed in the first week of July. Not sure if cultivated or growing wild. I have only one picture. Pl. check comparative images at Cactaceae to arrive at the genus. May be some Cereus species or Selenicereus species or similar […]

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Centromadia pungens (USA)

Centromadia pungens (Hook. & Arn.) Greene, Man. Bot. San Franc. Bay 196 1894. (syn: Centromadia maritima Greene; Centromadia pungens subsp. maritima (Greene) B.G.Baldwin; Centromadia pungens subsp. pungens ; Centromadia pungens var. pungens ; Centromadia pungens subsp. septentrionalis (D.D.Keck) B.G.Baldwin; Hartmannia pungens Hook. & Arn.; Hemizonia pungens subsp. maritima (Greene) D.D.Keck; Hemizonia pungens subsp. pungens ; Hemizonia pungens var. […]

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Tageteae

Porophyllum ruderale (Jacq.) Cass. (Images by Pudji Widodo (Id by Surajit Koley) (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more images & complete details, click on the links))  Tagetes erecta L. (Images by Dinesh Valke & D.S.Rawat, (For more photos & complete details, click on the links))   Tagetes minuta L. (Images by Sheetal Pachpande (1), Gurcharan Singh (2,3) & Prashant Awale […]

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Millerieae

Melampodium divaricatum (Rich.) DC. (Images by Nidhan Singh (Id by Aarti S Khale), Karuna Kanta Das (Id by Nidhan Singh) & Prashant Awale (Id by Nidhan Singh) (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more images & complete details, click on the links))  Sigesbeckia orientalis L. (Images by Nidhan Singh, Anurag N Sharma (Id by Vijayasankar Raman), Satish Phadke, Dinesh Valke (Id by Prashant Awale […]

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Helenieae

Gaillardia pulchella Foug. (Images by Nidhan Singh, Mani Nair, D S Rawat  and Aarti Khale (Inserted by Gurcharan Singh) (Please click link to see all images))                                                         Cultivar ‘Yellow Torch’ images by Gurcharan Singh, Inserted by Gurcharan Singh  Helenium autumnale L. (Images by Gurcharan Singh and Aarti Khale, Inserted by Gurcharan Singh) Cultivar ‘Helena Red Shades’ (Images by Gurcharan Singh and Aarti Khale, Inserted […]

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Calenduleae

Calendula officinalis L. (Images by Surajit Koley (Validation by D S Rawat), D S Rawat, Gurcharan Singh & Dinesh Valke (Id by Nidhan Singh) (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more photos & complete details, click on the links)) Dimorphotheca ecklonis DC. (Images by D S Rawat, Ankush Prakash & Gurcharan Singh (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more images & complete details, click on […]

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