Ceropegia evansii

Images by Sushant More Ceropegia evansii McCann, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 45: 209 1945. ;   Common name: Evans Ceropegia • Marathi: इवान खरपुडी   Habit: Twiner Notes: Low slopes. Endemic Maharashtra: Pune, Ratnagiri (From India Biodiversity Portal Attributions- G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras […]

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41st Tree Appreciation Walk in Malad Trail, SGNP

    41st Tree Appreciation Walk in Malad Trail, SGNP on 8th Sep,13 at 7.30am : 1 post by 1 author. The Moody Monsoon has been throwing its weight all around, making life difficult for some but in SGNP it has created a land of plentiful for its rightful Inhabitants……….every inch of land is covered […]

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Sesamum species ?- Vienna, Virginia, USA

    Garden flower for ID – 100813 – RK : Attachments (5). 4 posts by 3 authors. Pictures taken in Vienna, Virginia, USA on 15/06/13 at 3pm local time. Would appreciate ID. Is this Sesame plant?      

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Blue Tiger host plant at Kolkata

      ID pls , Blue Tiger laid egg here !!…. shot taken at Science City , Saltlake , Kolkata : Attachments (1). 1 post by 1 author. ID pls , Blue Tiger laid egg here !!…. shot taken at Science City , Saltlake , Kolkata      

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Melaleuca species- Bhimtal, Uttarakhand

  Plant with tinted foliage Bhimtal : Attachments (1). 4 posts by 4 authors. ID please. The plant at center with red tinted foliage (at a nursery, Bhimtal). Probably Melaleuca… Which var. of Melaleuca. Melaleuca linariifolia I guess  

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Cyperus paniceus

Cyperus paniceus (Rottb.) Boeckeler, Linnaea 36: 381 1870. (Syn: Cyperus cariciformis F.Muell. [Illegitimate]; Cyperus paniceus var. queenslandicus (Domin) Kük.; Cyperus paniceus var. roxburghianus (C.B.Clarke) Kük.; Cyperus umbellatus Thwaites [Illegitimate]; Kyllinga panicea Rottb.; Kyllinga punicea J.F.Gmel.; Mariscus cariciformis F.Muell.; Mariscus paniceus (Rottb.) Vahl; Mariscus paniceus var. queenslandicus Domin; Mariscus paniceus var. roxburghianus C.B.Clarke; Mariscus pullu Steud.; […]

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Crossostephium (Asteroideae- Anthemideae)

  Crossostephium chinense (A.Gray ex L.) Makino (Images by Surajit Koley (Id by Amit Chauhan) (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more images & complete details, click on the links)) Crossostephium page (‎‎‎‎‎‎‎Asteraceae (Compositae)‎) with images of species in efloraofindia : 1 post by 1 author. Pl. go through ‎Crossostephium page (Asteraceae (Compositae)‎) with images of species […]

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Chlorophytum filipendulum subsp. amaniense (Cultivated)

Chlorophytum filipendulum subsp. amaniense (Engl.) Nordal & A.D.Poulsen, in Fl. Trop. E. Afr. Antheric.: 59 1998. (Syn: Chlorophytum amaniense Engl.); Images by Ranjini Kamath – validation by A.H.Munshi, (inserted by Bhagyashri Ranade) Chlorophytum amaniense – Fire Flash – 250813 – RK : Attachments (2). 1 post by 1 author. I found the fruit unusual!!  Bangalore […]

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Liparis nervosa

Liparis nervosa (Thunb.) Lindl., Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl. 26 1830. (syn: Cymbidium bituberculatum Hook.; Cymbidium nervosum (Thunb.) Sw.; Diteilis elata (Lindl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones; Diteilis nepalensis Raf. [Illegitimate]; Diteilis nervosa (Thunb.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones; Epidendrum nervosum (Thunb.) Thunb.; Iebine nervosa (Thunb.) Raf.; Leptorchis bituberculata (Lindl.) Kuntze; Leptorchis eggersii (Rchb. f.) Kuntze; Leptorchis elata (Lindl.) Kuntze; […]

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Erythranthe guttata (cultivated)

Erythranthe guttata (DC.) G.L.Nesom, Cat. Hort. Monsp. 127 1813. (syn: Mimulus clementinus Greene; Mimulus equinus Greene; Mimulus grandiflorus J.T.Howell; Mimulus guttatus Fisch. ex DC.; Mimulus guttatus subsp. haidensis Calder & Roy L.Taylor; Mimulus guttatus var. puberulus (Greene ex Rydb.) A.L.Grant; Mimulus hirsutus J.T.Howell; Mimulus langsdorffii Donn ex Sims; Mimulus langsdorffii var. argutus Greene; Mimulus langsdorffii var. […]

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Predation

    Predation : Attachments (7). 2 posts by 2 authors. Thought this might be interesting. Photographed on my property at Shahapur [north of Bombay] last Sunday (21.8.13). A Praying Mantis eating a Woolly Bear [Arctiid Moth caterpillar]. Sending a few photographs. Thanks … for lovely site. The Praying Mantis is doing it’s duty so […]

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Lysimachia lobelioides

Lysimachia lobelioides Wall., Fl. Ind., ed. 1820 2: 29 29 1824. (Syn: Bernardina lobelina Baudo; Lysimachia secunda Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don);   China (W-Guangxi, Guizhou, SW-Sichuan, Yunnan), Bhutan, India, Laos, Myanmar [Burma] (Mandalay), Nepal, N-Thailand, Java, Jammu & Kashmir (Kashmir), Vietnam as per Catalogue of Life; Common name: Lobelia Loosestrife        Scrophulariaceae Fortnight: Aquatic herb […]

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Lindernia species- near Shilling in Gori valley

  Scrophulariaceae Fortnight: Herb for id from Gori Valley-NS 41 : Attachments (4). 3 posts by 2 authors. Please help to identify this very small herb which was shot from area near Shilling in Gori valley… can this again be a Lindernia sp.?? Lindernia species in efi so far along with keys   Closest I can […]

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Serpula similis ?

Serpula similis (Berk. & Broome) Ginns, Mycologia, 63: 231, 1971 (Syn:  ≡Merulius similis Berk. & Broome, ≡Sesia similis (Berk. & Broome) Kuntze, ≡Gyrophana similis (Berk. & Broome) Pat.) ?;      Hooghly – Fuligo sp. ??? : Attachments (11). 3 posts by 2 authors. This one was growing on a dead log, recorded on 12/8/13. My […]

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