pitcher plant: One of my friend has put these pics on Facebook. i wonder if India has anything similar to them?? https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=345617122178514&set=a.121874897886072.21858.120956487977913&type=1&theater another one https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=345618192178407&set=a.121874897886072.21858.120956487977913&type=1&theater I have seen a pitcher plant at the yercaud botanical garden. But it is a planted one. I have several pictures of different varieties/ species of picture of this plant […]
All posts by
Piper trichostachyon
Piper trichostachyon (Miq.) C. DC. , Prodr. 16(1): 242 242 1869. (Syn: Muldera trichostachya Miq.); Peninsular India as per India Biodiversity Portal; References: Catalogue of Life The Plant List Ver.1.1 GBIF POWO India Biodiversity Portal Flora of peninsular India Kerala plants Plant illustrations new Piper from the northern Western Ghats and notes on economic potential […]
Related links
Related links; eFI website- further involvement of members required Volunteers for working on eFI website
Guidelines for re-surfacing Id requests
Guidelines for re-surfacing Id requests Aim of the whole exercise of forwarding is to get the Identification. We have to provide all earlier feedback along with the attachments at the same place, so that anybody interested need not have to look at all the things again doing up & down. Here is how to do […]
Formatting efloraofindia pages
Formatting efloraofindia pages; This one can do by formatting currently edited pages as they are not properly formatted due to time constraints. One has to click on ‘sign in’ to google by clicking at the bottom left of the page (if it shows ‘Sign in’ at the bottom left). One can reach the […]
Procedure for updating efloraofindia site
Procedure for updating efi site 1. Visit home page at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (one can make it ones’ favorite by opening it, clicking on Favorites in Menu Bar at the top, selecting ‘ add to favorites’ & then clicking on ‘Add’->. In future, one has to just click on favorites & then ‘Efloraofindia Google Groups’ for opening […]
Cynoglossum species
Char Dam yatra at Gangotri– 7.7.10; For ID 200710 ETa – efloraofindia | Google Groups flowers for id m3: These photographs were taken during a trip to ladakh in july 2008. wondering if this flower can identified. they were growing besides the road that goes from manali to rohtang pass Perhaps a close […]
Licuala species ?
Licuala species ?; 05122010VAI1 – Wildflower for ID: This ?tree looked like a dwarf palm about 4 feet tall. Photographed in jungle on a trek (looking for birds). – ID request please Location: near Makunda Christian Hospital campus, Karimganj District, Assam Date: 5th December 2010 Please check Carludovica palmata Ruiz & Pav. from Cyclanthaceae Looks […]
Vachellia nilotica subsp. cupressiformis
Vachellia nilotica (L.) P. J. H. Hurter & Mabb. subsp. cupressiformis ined. (Syn: (≡) Acacia arabica var. cupressiformis J. L. Stewart (basionym); (≡) Acacia nilotica subsp. cupressiformis (J. L. Stewart) Ali & Faruqi) as per GRIN; Acacia nilotica subsp. cupressiformis (J.L.Stewart) Ali & Faruqi (Syn: Acacia arabica var. cupressiformis Stewart; Acacia arabica var. cupressiformis J.L.Stewart; […]
Luisia macrantha
Luisia macrantha Blatt. & McCann , J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 35: 492 1932.; Images by tspkumar Kathakali flowering: Was at my farm at Shahapur today. Luisia macrantha [Kathakali] was flowering. Sending a few photographs. Luisia macrantha Blatt. & McCann Orchidaceae Endemic to India. Thanks for sharing. The lateral petals are […]
Luisia
Asparagus aethiopicus
Asparagus aethiopicus L., Mant. Pl. 1 1770. (Syn: Asparagopsis aethiopica (L.) Kunth; Asparagopsis lancea (Thunb.) Kunth; Asparagus aculeatus Voss; Asparagus laetus Salisb.; Asparagus lanceus Thunb.; Asparagus maximus Voss;Asparagus sprengeri Regel ; Protasparagus aethiopicus (L.) Oberm.); Images by (Bhagyashri Ranade – identified by Arving Kadus) & (Neha Singh – identified by Giby Kuriakose), (inserted by Bhagyashri Ranade) […]
Amborella species
Amborella species; Amborella: here is an interesting piece of information which can be read at the following link: http://www.biotecnika.org/news/august-2011/where-did-flowers-come?utm… The University at Buffalo is a key partner in a $7.3 million, multi-institution collaboration to explore the origins of all flowers by sequencing the genome of Amborella, a unique species that one researcher has […]
Amborella
Amborellaceae
Vernicia
Vernicia fordii (Hemsl.) Airy Shaw Species as per Flora of India Vol 23 (2012) (Editors N. P. Balakrishnan, T. Chakrabarty, M. Sanjappa, P. Lakshminarsimhan & P. Singh- by Botanical Survey of India): Vernicia cordata (Thunb.) Airy Shaw (Cultivated)Vernicia fordii (Hemsl.) Airy Shaw Vernicia montana Lour.
Erythrina species
Muzki leaves – food for rabbits: Evening, Tribal people (Malasar) carry Muzki leaves to feed rabbits back in their Pathis (hamlet).(Muzki -a difficult malayalam word to pronounce, Do they mean Muzki,Muzhki, Mulki…) Forest Checkpost, Chimmony WLS, Thrissur, Kerala9 Oct 2011 5:30PM These are leaves of Erythrina sp. In malayalam it is called Murikku. May […]
Aster albescens
Aster albescens (DC.) Wall. ex Hand.-Mazz., 205 1938. (Syn: Amphirhapis albescens DC.; Aster albescens var. glandulosus Hand.-Mazz.; Aster albescens var. megaphyllus Y.Ling; Aster albescens var. niveus Hand.-Mazz.; Aster albescens var. rugosus Y.Ling; Aster cabulicus Lindl.; Aster ferrugineus Edgew.; Aster ignoratus Kunth & Bouché); Images by Nidhan Singh, Prashant Awale, Dinesh Valke & Alok Mahendroo (Id by Tabish) […]
Litsea wightiana ?
Litsea wightiana (Nees) Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 177 177 1886. (Syn: Cylicodaphne wightiana Nees (Unresolved)) ?; Evergreen dioecious trees, to 15 m high, bark surface brown, smooth, lenticellate; lenticels horizontal; branchlets brown pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 10-20 mm long, stout, brown pubescent; lamina 7-15 x 3-9 cm, obovate or oblong, base […]
