IBIS-Flora: A working Flora of India with a baseline database : 6 posts by 3 authors. THE IBIS FLORA PORTAL A hundred years after the publication of “The Flora of British India”, the time has arrived to compile and update the data on floral biodiversity of India with the knowledge that we have gleaned […]
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Hopea glabra
Hopea glabra Wight & Arn., Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient. 85 1834. ; Images by Santhan P. Habit- Trees ca. 20 m tall. Trunk & Bark- Bark brownish. Branches and Branchlets- Branchlets dark colored, terete, glabrous. Leaves- Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules caducous; petioles ca. 2 cm long; lamina 5.5-10 x 2-4 cm, ovate-lanceolate, […]
Hypericum monogynum (Cultivated)
Hypericum monogynum L., Sp. Pl. ed. 2 1107 1763. (Syn: Ascyrum monogynum (L.) Moench; Brathydium aureum K.Koch; Hypericum amoenum Pursh (Unresolved); Hypericum aureum Lour.; Hypericum chinense L. [Illegitimate]; Hypericum chinense subsp. latifolium Kuntze….; Hypericum monogynum var. salicifolium (Siebold & Zucc.) André; Hypericum salicifolium Siebold & Zucc.; Hypericum sinense J.F.Gmel. (Unresolved); Komana salicifolia (Siebold & Zucc.) Y.Kimura; Norysca […]
Ornamental plant with red flowers in Sri Lanka in Dec.
BND 44 4/11/14 : 5 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1) Please ID this small ornamental plant with red flowers. Photo was taken in Sri Lanka in Dec 2012. I think this is Sanchezia parvibracteata efi page on Sanchezia parvibracteata. Does not look like it.
Euphorbia corrigioloides
Euphorbia corrigioloides Boiss., Cent. Euphorb. 11 1860. (Syn: Chamaesyce corrigioloides (Boiss.) Soják; Euphorbia disticha Engelm. ex Boiss.); Images by Muthu Karthick – Id by N.P.Balakrishnan Root stout, crowned with a short stock ; branches long and flexuous, 4-10 in., pale, usually much stouter than in other species of this section. Leaves distichously spreading, thickly […]
EXPLORING BLACK BUCK NATIONAL PARK, MOUNT SHETRUNJAY & SEA SHORE Trekking
Fwd: EXPLORING BLACK BUCK NATIONAL PARK, MOUNT SHETRUNJAY & SEA SHORE Trekking 2014 – 15. : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (4) Youth Hostels Bhavnagar Unit Organized 1st time in India Tripple Combination Trek.Only 1 Group (50 Participants) 1st come 1st base.Reporting Date: 28/12/2014, Sunday.End On 03/01/2015, Saturday.6N/7D days Programme, Fees Rs. […]
Desmodium pryonii
Desmodium pryonii DC. (Syn: Desmodium prisoni sensu Schindl. [Spelling variant]; Desmodium wightii Wight & Arn.; Hedysarum pryonii (DC.) Spreng.; Meibomia wightii (Wight & Arn.) Kuntze); Distribution: Andhra Pradesh4, Karnataka1, Kerala1, Tamil Nadu5 (ILDIS); Erect shrubs; stems angled, villous. Leaflets to 7 x 3.5 cm, rhomboid, acuminate at apex, densely hairy below; stipule 1 cm […]
Taiwania cryptomerioides ?
Taiwania cryptomerioides ?; Tree For ID : California : 27OCT14 : AK-34 : 9 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (3) Tree seen in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco on the 30th Sept,14. Sorry for bad pictures due to less light. Couldn’t go closer. Could be one of the Araucaria species. Araucaria species […]
Acalypha species/ hybrids- Sri Lanka
Images by Siva Siva (Identified by Dr. Santhosh Kumar), (Inserted by Bhagyashri Ranade) BND 84 12/11/14 : 4 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (1) Please ID this small ornamental plant with pinkish-red flowers. Photo was taken in Sri Lanka in March 2012. Acalypha sp Acalypha species in efi so far Somewhat resembling Acalypha wilkesiana but I do […]
Apiaceae member- Rajpur to Mussoorie
Cistus × purpureus (Cultivated- USA)
Cistus × purpureus Lam., Encycl. 2: 14 1786. (Syn: Cistus × purpureus var. argenteus Demoly); Garden Flower For ID : California : 09NOV14 : AK-20 : 9 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (1) Cultivated, garden flower seen in San Francisco on the 1st of October. Single pink flower. do you have the mound of it […]
Canna hybrids- Satara
Satara, Oct 2014 :: Requesting ID – Garden flower :: ARKNOV-45 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (1) Ending my Satara series for now with this post Requesting to please provide ID of this common garden flower captured near Satara, Maharashtra in October 2014. Is it some Canna cultivar? […]
Cistus × laxus (Cultivated- USA)
Cistus ×laxus Aiton, Hort. kew. 2:233. 1789 (pro. sp.); Garden Flower For ID : California : 09NOV14 : AK-19 : 7 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (3). White garden flower seen on the 1st of October in San Francisco. Small plant, with a single flower. was this in a nursery ? or planted […]
Frangula
Lavandula gibsonii
Lavandula gibsonii J.Graham, Cat. Pl. Bombay 149 1839. (Syn: Lavandula lawii Wight; Lavandula perrottetii Benth.); Satara, Oct 2014 :: Requesting ID validation :: ARKNOV-05 : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (8). Requesting to please validate ID of this plant captured near Satara, Maharashtra in October 2014. The leaves were very soft to […]
Euphorbiaceae member- Sri Lanka
HAL 36 28/10/2014 : 7 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (1). Please ID this small medicinal shrub. Photo was taken in Sri Lanka in Dec 2012. It seems some Jatropha related Euphorbiaceae plant Your ID led to believe the plant may be Baliospermum solanifolium or Micrococca mercurialia both belong to Euphorbiaceae and both […]
Hypericum aegypticum (Cultivated- USA)
Hypericum aegypticum L., Sp. pl. 2:784. 1753 ; Image by Gurcharan Singh Hypericaceae, Clusiaceae and Dipterocarpaceae Fortnight: Hypericum aegypticum L.. from California-GSNOV03 : 3 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1). Hypericum aegypticum L. Shrubby St’Johns Weed Photographed from University of California Botanical Garden References: GRIN The Plant List Ver.1.1 SMGrowers
Hypericum calycinum (Cultivated- USA)
Hypericum calycinum L., Mant. Pl. 1: 106 1767. (Syn: Androsaemum calycinum (L.) T.Lestib.; Ascyrum calycinum (L.) Poir.; Ascyrum coriaceum Moench [Illegitimate]; Eremanthe calycina (L.) Spach; Eremanthe venosa (Lam.) K.Koch; Hypericum calycinum var. acutifolium Choisy; Hypericum grandiflorum Salisb. [Illegitimate]; Hypericum venosum Lam.; Norysca calycina (L.) Blume; Norysca venosa (Lam.) Blume); Images by Gurcharan Singh Hypericum […]
Grevillea species/ Cultivars
Small ornamental shrub with violet flowers in Sri Lanka
BND 12 2/11/14 : 5 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1) Please ID this small ornamental shrub with violet flowers. Photo was taken in Sri Lanka in March 2013. Mansoa alliaceae; I hope. Does not look like Mansoa alliacea
