Asystasia indica

Asystasia indica H.J.Chowdhery & Av.Bhattacharjee, Indian J. Forest. 29: 211 2006.; India (West Bengal) as per Catalogue of Life;   Images by Somnath Paldas, Indentified by K. Manasi, Mayur Nandikar, S. Pardeshi, Ushadi & Hemson (Inserted by J.M.Garg)   Request for ID , 2: pls help me with the ID & nature of the plant … […]

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Sapindus trifoliatus

Sapindus trifoliatus L., Sp. pl. 1:367. 1753 (Syn: Sapindus abstergens Roxb. ex Wight & Arn.; Sapindus acutus Roxb. ex Wight & Arn.; Sapindus laurifolius Vahl; Sapindus mollis Bl.) as per Catalogue of Life; India (Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala), Sri Lanka, Malesia (I), Java (I), Rodrigues (I), Yemen (SE-Yemen: […]

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Limonium perezii (Cultivated- USA)

Limonium perezii (Stapf) F.T. Hubb., Rhodora 18(211): 158 158 1916. (syn: Statice perezii Stapf); Canary Isl. (Tenerife), USA (I) (California (I)) as per Catalogue of life;   Plumbaginaceae and Primulaceae (incl. Myrsinaceae) Fortnight: Plumbaginaceae-Limonium perezzi Mountainview::SMP4 : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (4).   Limonium perezzi Ornamental. Commonly observed in California flower beds Mountainview. […]

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Limonium

Limonium sinuatum (L.) Mill. (Cultivated) (Moldavia, European Russia (widespread), Crimea, Georgia [Caucasus], Portugal, Spain, Gibraltar, France, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Italy, Serbia & Kosovo, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, Slovakia, Aegaean Isl., Turkey (NW-Anatolia: Bithynia, S-Anatolia, SSW-Anatolia, SW-Anatolia, W-Anatolia), Cyprus (C-Mountains, E-Cyprus, N-Cyprus, W-Cyprus), East Aegaean Isl. (Samos, Psara), Rhodos, Egypt (NE-Egypt, NW-coastal Egypt), Israel (coastal W-Israel), Lebanon […]

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Pelargonium species/ hybrids

  Pelargonium species flowers observed in SFO Bot park: Sharing some Pelargonium flowers from SFO Bot park.Family : Geraniaceae   Balsaminaceae, Geraniaceae and Oxalidaceae Week: Geraniaceae Yellowstone3: 1 image. One more Geraniaceae from Yellowstone.

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Ledebouria

Ledebouria revoluta (L.f.) Jessop (Images by Dinesh Valke, Prashant Awale, Shubhada Nikharge, Prasad Dash & Alka Khare (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more images & complete details, click on the links))     Ledebouria socialis (Baker) Jessop (Images by Nidhan Singh (Validated by Alastair Culham) (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more images & complete details, click on the links))  […]

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Bidens bipinnata

Bidens bipinnata L., Sp. Pl.: 832 (1753) 832 1753. (Syn: Bidens bipinnata var. biternatoides Sherff; Bidens cicutifolia Tausch; Bidens decomposita Wall. ex DC. (ambiguous synonym); Bidens elongata Tausch; Bidens fervida; Bidens myrrhidifolia Tausch; Bidens pilosa var. bipinnata (L.) Hook. fil.; Bidens pilosa var. decomposita (Wall. ex DC.) Hook. fil.; Bidens wallichii DC.; Kerneria bipinnata (L.) […]

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Gasteria obliqua (Cultivated)

Gasteria obliqua (Aiton) Duval, Pl. Succ. Horto Alencon. 6 1809. (Syn: Aloe bicolor (Haw.) Schult. & Schult.f.; Aloe boureana Schult. & Schult.f.; Aloe dictyodes Schult. & Schult.f.; Aloe formosa (Haw.) Schult. & Schult.f.; Aloe guttata Salm-Dyck; Aloe lingua Ker Gawl. [Illegitimate]; Aloe maculata Thunb. [Illegitimate]; Aloe maculata var. obliqua Aiton; Aloe marmorata Steud.; Aloe nigricans […]

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Brachychiton acerifolius (Cultivated)

Brachychiton acerifolius (A. Cunn. ex G. Don) Macarthur, Cat. British Sect. Paris Universal Exhib. 116. 1855 (Hooker’s J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 9:198. 1857; W. Macarthur & C. Moore, Cat. coll. bois. indig. 6. 1855, nom. inval.) (Syn: (≡) Sterculia acerifolia A. Cunn. ex G. Don (basionym));   Common name: Australian Flame Tree, Flame Bottletree, Flame […]

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Geodorum densiflorum

Images By Pankaj Kumar, Rakesh Khedwal (Id by Vijayasankar Raman & Prasad Dash), P. Santhan, Prashant Awale (Id by Khyanjeet Gogoi & Pankaj Kumar) & (inserted By Sushant More & J.M.Garg) (For more images & complete details, click on the links)  Images by tspkumar Geodorum densiflorum (Lam.) Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 4: 259 1919. (Syn: […]

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Schisandra

  Schisandra grandiflora (Wall.) Hook. f. & Thomson (Images by Gurinder Goraya & Ushaprabha Page (Id by Ushadi) (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more photos & complete details, click on the links)) Schisandra neglecta A.C.Sm. Schisandra propinqua (Wall.) Baill. (Images by Saroj Kumar Kasaju (Id by Dinesh Singh Rawat) (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more photos & complete details, […]

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Monoon fragrans

Monoon fragrans (Dalzell) B. Xue & R. M. K. Saunders, Taxon 61: 1031. 2012. (Basionym : Guatteria fragrans Dalzell; Syn: Polyalthia fragrans (Dalzell) Bedd.)) as per A conspectus of Indo-Burmese Annonaceae by I. M. Turner (2015); Images by (Anurag Sharma – identified by Tapas Chakrabarty), (Prashant Awale – validation by Santosh Kumar), Navendu Page & (Prasanna […]

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Desideria

Desideria himalayensis (Cambess.) Al-Shehbaz   Desideria pumila (Kurz) Al-Shehbaz   Desideria species- on the arid banks of Rakshas Tal, Tibet

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Eriocaulon malabaricum

Eriocaulon malabaricum Pradeep & Nampy, Edinburgh Journal of Botany / Volume 68 / Issue 02 / July 2011;     Acaulescent herbs; rootstock up to 1.5 cm. Leaves few, rosulate,linear, ca. 4 x 0.2 cm, glabrous. Peduncles many, up to 16 cm long, glabrous, striate; sheath up to 2.5 cm long, glabrous; limb entire, ovate […]

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Plinia cauliflora (Cultivated- USA)

Plinia cauliflora (Mart.) Kausel, Ark. Bot. a.s., 3: 508 1956. (Syn: Eugenia cauliflora (Mart.) DC.; Eugenia jaboticaba (Vell.) Kiaersk.; Myrcia jaboticaba (Vell.) Baill.; Myrciaria cauliflora (Mart.) O.Berg; Myrciaria jaboticaba (Vell.) O.Berg; Myrtus cauliflora Mart.; Myrtus jaboticaba Vell.; Plinia jaboticaba (Vell.) Kausel);  E. Bolivia, SE. & S. Brazil as per WCSP;    Tree KNOWN ID UD […]

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Hackelia macrophylla

Hackelia macrophylla I.M. Johnst., Contr. Gray Herb. 68: 45 1923. (Syn: Cynoglossum macrophyllum Royle ex Benth.; Hackelia stewartii I.M. Johnst.; Lappula macrophylla Brand) as per The Plant List Ver.1.1; Catalogue of Life (Hackelia uncinatum (Benth.) C. E. C. Fischer syn: Hackelia macrophylla (Royle ex A. DC.) I. M. Johnst.)     Borage family…??: 7 posts […]

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Houttuynia cordata

Houttuynia cordata Thunb., Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. 4: 149 1783. (Syn: Houttuynia cordata var. plena Makino; Houttuynia cordata f. polypetaloidea T.Yamaz.; Houttuynia cordata var. variegata Makino; Houttuynia cordata f. viridis J.Ohara; Houttuynia emeiensis Z.Y.Zhu & S.L.Zhang; Houttuynia foetida Loudon; Polypara cochinchinensis Lour.; Polypara cordata Kuntze);  Native to: Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China North-Central, China South-Central, […]

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Houttuynia

Houttuynia cordata Thunb. (Native to: Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Nepal, New York, Ogasawara-shoto, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam, West Himalaya;  Introduced into: Alabama, Austria, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia as per POWO)                  Species with distribution in annotated checklist of Flowering […]

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Saururaceae

Houttuynia cordata Thunb. (Native to: Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Nepal, New York, Ogasawara-shoto, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam, West Himalaya;  Introduced into: Alabama, Austria, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia as per POWO)                 

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