Datura species- Pune

      Solanaceae Fortnight:: Pune:: Datura metel :: SMPFEB23/23 : 5 posts by 4 authors. 1 image. Datura metelPlease validate Pune efi page on Datura metel (Cultivated) yes but something’s eating / destroying the leaves The plant looks like pubescent, so should not be D. metel as per discussion in another thread.      

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Solanaceae fortnight Statistics

    Solanaceae fortnight Statistics : 5 posts by 5 authors. Attachments (1) Compilation of Solanaceae genera and species discussed during the Solanaceae fortnight. A good job done, thanks … Acnistus Atropa Browallia Brugmansia Acnistus arborescens Atropa acuminata Browallia elata Brugmansia arborea Browallia americana Brugmansia versicolor Brugmansia suaveolens Brugmansia candida Brugmansia pittieri Brunfelsia Calibrachoa Capsicum Cestrum […]

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Barringtonia racemosa ?

Barringtonia racemosa (L.) Spreng. ?;   Images by P. Santhan, Identified by Surajit Koley (Inserted by J.M.Garg)  Barringtonia sarcostachys (Blume) Miq. 15Feb SN 08 : 7 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (3) Barringtonia sarcostachys (Blume) Miq., a cultivated ornamental tree from Theerthahalli town, near Shivmoga, Karnatatka, kindly validate …, I have no authority to question or […]

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Vigna pandeyana

Vigna pandeyana Gore, Gaikwad and Randive (2015);     please visit the document sharing thread about new species Vigna pandeyana : 5 posts by 5 authors. Attachments (1)- Vigna pandeyana (Fabaceae).pdf We (author’s) are pleased to inform you that we are published a new species of Genus Vigna of subgenus Ceratotropis j.e. Vigna pandeyana Gore, Gaikwad and Randive (2015) in […]

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Roy P. E.

    2011 1.      Santhosh Kumar E.S., S.M. Shareef and P.E. Roy 2011. Rediscovery and lectotypification of Eugenia argentea Gamble (Myrtaceae)- an endemic and endangered species of the Western Ghats. Journal of Scientific Research 3 (1): 213-216.   2.        S.M. Shareef, E.S. Santhosh Kumar and P.E. Roy 2011. A new variety of Eugenia terpnophylla Thw. (Myrtaceae)  from Kerala India. Nord. J. Bot. 29: 455-457. doi: […]

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Ansari Anis Ahmad

    Paper Presentation:     i.      “Flora of Madhaulia Forest-Dicotyledons (Ranunculaceae-Tiliaceae) and Asteraceae of Gorakhpur” during Symposium at Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur.   ii.      “Vegetational composition of Nagdev, Pauri Garhwal” at ISCA, New Delhi, 1986.   iii.      Phenological observation of some woody angiosperms of Pauri Garhwal” at ISCA, Bangalore, 1987.   iv.      “Flora, vegetation and […]

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Halder Suman

    List of Publication Ø Published   1. Halder, S. & P. Venu (2012). The taxonomy and report of flowering in Lemna L. (Lemnaceae) in India. Current Science. 102 (12): 1629 – 1632. 2. Halder, S. & T. K. Paul (2012). Sphaeromorphaea australis (Less.) Kitam., an addition to the flora of Andhra Pradesh, India. […]

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Gasteria hybrid- Mumbai

      Jijamata Udyan Flower Show, Feb 2015 :: Requesting ID of this ornamental-3:: ARKFEB-09/40 : 6 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2) Please ID this succulent captured at Jijamata Udyan Flower Show in Feb 2015. infected?????  what are the white things too irregularly located so cant be a natural design, is my thought […]

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Hygrophila balsamica

Hygrophila balsamica Raf., Fl. Tellur. 4: 66 1838. ;   Images by S. Kasim (Identified S. Koley & A. Sinha & Vijayasankar Raman) (Inserted by J.M.Garg)      Identification of Plant specimen : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (5) Pl help me to identify the attached specimen:Place:  Puzhal, Chennai Suburb, TamilnaduDate: 26-01-15Found near the water body. […]

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A Pictorial Guide to Common Garden Plants

    A Pictorial Guide to Common Garden Plants-Released March 2015: 5 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (7)This gives me immense pleasure to announce on the group that recently we have been able to publish a book on ornamental plants entitled “A Pictorial Guide to Common Garden Plants” featuring full coloured images and relevant information regarding more […]

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Curcuma mukhraniae

Curcuma mukhraniae R. Kr. Singh et Atri Garg, sp. nov., 2014;        A new species of Zingiberaceae, Curcuma mukhraniae R. Kr. Singh from Western Ghats, Mookambika Wildlife Sanctuary, Udupi Dist., Karnataka, India is described and illustrated             References: Academia 

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Hubbardia heptaneuron

Hubbardia heptaneuron Bor, Kew Bull. 5: 385 1950. ;   Earlier Hubbardia heptaneuron was considered to be endemic to Karnataka state only. It was first collected by Sedgwick from Gersoppa falls in Karnataka in 1919 but described by Bor in 1950. It has not been collected from that locality in the past 80 years. In 2000, researchers […]

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Eriocaulon species- Assam

      ID of grass sp.from Assam KD 04 Feb 2015 : 4 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (4) Attached images may be grass sp.. Please ID the plant.   Date :19.02.2015 Location: Assam Habitat: Grows wild on paddy field Habit : Small herb This looks like Eriocaulon sp. Eriocaulon – species in eFIoraofindia (with details/ keys […]

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Dicliptera species- Kaiga, Uttar Kannada, Karnataka

    09022015 PTR22 : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) Flora of Kaiga_ID_Please_09022015 PTR2Date/Time-:05/02/15 – 09:30 Location- Place, Altitude – Kaiga, Uttar Kannada, Karnataka, 380 mtrsHabitat- Garden/ Urban/ Wild/ Type- wildHabit- Tree/ Shrub/ Climber/ Herb- Herb/ Orchid Length- 1m Acanthaceae member. Looks like a species of Dicliptera      

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Diospyros saldanhae

Diospyros saldanhae Kosterm., J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 74: 326 1977. ; Images by Dinesh Valke, Indentified by (Inserted by J.M.Garg)     Habit- Trees up to 10 m tall. Trunk & Bark- Bark black, smooth; blaze pale red. Branches and Branchlets- Branchlets densely long (to 0.25 cm) hairy. Leaves- Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.2-0.4 […]

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49. Efloraofindia website updated upto 31st Jan.’15

    Efloraofindia website updated upto 31st Jan.’15- more than 10,000 species : 4 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 more than 2,15,000 messages so far […]

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