Croton lobatus

Croton lobatus L., Sp. Pl. 1005 1753. as per Flora of India Vol. 23 (2012);    Plant ID from Bangladesh SM147 : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2). Habit:Herb Habitat: Wild Location: Bandarban It is in all probability, Croton lobatus, already recorded for Bangladesh.      References: Flora of India Vol. 23 (2012) The […]

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42. Efloraofindia website updated upto 30th June’14

    Efloraofindia website updated upto 30th June’14- more than 9500 species : 1 post by 1 author. It’s heartening to reiterate that Efloraofindia is the largest google e-group in the world in this field & the largest nature related e-group (and the most constructive) in India with more than 1,93,000 messages so far& membership […]

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Cereus spegazzinii

Cereus spegazzinii F.A.C.Weber, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 9: 102 1899. (syn: Cereus anisitsii K.Schum.; Cereus lindenzweigianus Gürke; Cereus marmoratus Zeiss.; Cereus spegazzinii var. ebenacanthus (F.Ritter) P.J.Braun & Esteves; Cereus spegazzinii var. hassleri Weing.; Monvillea anisitsii (K. Schum.) A. Berger; Monvillea lindenzweigiana (Gürke) Backeb. (Unresolved); Monvillea spegazzinii (F.A.C. Weber) Britton & Rose; Piptanthocereus lindenzweigianus (Gürke) F.Ritter (Unresolved); Piptanthocereus spegazzinii Riccob. (Unresolved));   […]

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Blighia sapida (Introduced)

Blighia sapida K.D.Koenig, Ann. Bot. (König & Sims) 2: 571 1806. (Syn: Akea solitaria Stokes; Akeesia africana Tussac; Cupania akeesia Cambess. ex Spach; Cupania sapida (K.D.Koenig) Oken; Sapindus obovatus Wight & Arn. (Unresolved)); Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, S-Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, ?Liberia, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Sao Tome, Principe Isl., Haiti (I), Dominican […]

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Blighia

Blighia sapida K.D.Koenig (Introduced) (Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, S-Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, ?Liberia, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Sao Tome, Principe Isl., Haiti (I), Dominican Republic (I), Puerto Rico (I), Navassa Isl. (I), Nicaragua (I), Jamaica (I), Costa Rica (I), Belize (I), Panama (I), Lesser Antilles (I) (Montserrat (I), Dominica (I), Martinique (I), St. […]

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Henckelia meeboldii

Henckelia meeboldii (W.W.Sm. & Ramaswami) A.Weber & B.L.Burtt, Beitr. Biol. Pflanzen 70: 349 1997-1998 publ. 1998. (syn: Didymocarpus meeboldii W.W.Sm. & Ramaswami); ¿ hen-KEEL-ee-uh ? — named for count Leo F. V. Henckel von Donnersmark, a German administrator and passionate amateur botanist … Genera-Gesneriaceaedid-ee-mo-KAR-pus — pairs of fruit … Dave’s Botanarymee-BOLD-ee-eye — named for Alfred […]

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Vigna species ?- Bangalore

  images by Anurag N. Sharma; id by Dr. Santhosh Kumar  ARJUL51 Climber for ID : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2).   Found in Bangalore Growing on rocks July 2014 Either Phaseolus or Vigna? Thank you … I will look out for the flowers to confirm ID.        

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Secamone

Secamone emetica (Retz.) R. Br. ex Schult. (Images by P. Santhan & Anurag N Sharma (Id by P. Santhan) (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more photos & complete details, click on the links)) Secamone (‎‎Apocynaceae) page with images of species in efloraofindia : 1 post by 1 author Pl. go through ‎Secamone (‎‎Apocynaceae) page with images of […]

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Final Flowers of Sahyadri

    Final Flowers of Sahyadri : 21 posts by 14 authors. Attachments (1). Good news to enthusiasts of Sahyadri flora. Shrikant (Ingalhalikar) ji’s third and last field guide in the series, aptly named as ‘Final Flowers of Sahyadri’ will be released on 21 March 2014 – a day auspicious to people of our kind […]

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Haworthia species- Nasik

      Succulent For ID : Nasik : 110714 : AK-19 : 5 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1). Small, cultivated succulent plant seen at a Cactus House in Nasik on 27/2/14. Haworthia? haworthia species Haworthia crispatus      

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Pogostemon parviflorus

Pogostemon parviflorus Benth., Pl. Asiat. Rar. 1: 31 1830. ;     Lamiaceae (incl. Verbenaceae) Fortnight :: Pogostemon benghalensis FOR VALIDATION ? ID :: Prabalgad :: DVMAY45/45 : 6 posts by 2 authors. 8 images.  Pogostemon ¿ benghalensis ? I am not confident about this plant being benghalensis. Something looks different to me about its inflorescence. Other aspects seems similar to that […]

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Small Fungus in Banglore

      ARJUL24 Fungus for ID : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2). Found in Bangalore 13th July please follow Trinacria Fungorum. it may solve your problems . Since it is having brow coloured spore (derived from its gill colour) it may be fall in Rhodocybe group. But it needs lot more details […]

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Peacock Pansy on Zinnia

      SYMBIOSIS : 624 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (1). Attaching an image of a Peacock Pansy butterfly on the flower of Zinnia.        

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Aglaonema ‘Silver Bay’

Aglaonema ‘Silver Bay’;     Araceae, Arecaceae and Zingiberaceae Fortnight: August 1 to 14, 2014 : Araceae : Aglaonema Silver Bay : Mumbai : 310814 : AK-127 :  1 post by 1 author.  Attachments (1).   A cultivated plant from Mumbai. Kindly validate. Foliage Plant For ID : Mumbai : 130714 : AK-25 : 5 posts by […]

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Papilionanthe biswasiana

Papilionanthe biswasiana (Ghose & Mukerjee) Garay, Bot. Mus. Leafl. 23: 371. 1974;           Orchids from Sikkim-Darjeeling Tour- Aerides biswasiana from LBG:: NS July 05 : 5 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (5). No sir. This is Papilionanthe biswasiana. Supposed to be rare. Sometimes I think it could be merged with Papilionanthe […]

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Coelogyne species- West Bengal

  Orchids from Sikkim-Darjeeling Tour- Dendrobium for id from WB:: NS July 13 : 5 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (4). Despite best of efforts, we could not go any closer to this population, I hope they are identifiable for experts…These are all distant shots, sorry for the quality, might be … have better pics..Can […]

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