Sanicula

  Sanicula elata Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don (Images by Subhasis Panda (Id by Ritesh Kumar Choudhary), Alok Mahendroo (Id by Krishan Lal) & Dinesh Valke (Id by Krishan Lal) (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more images & complete details, click on the links))  ‎Sanicula page (‎‎‎Apiaceae) with images of species in efloraofindia : 1 post by 1 […]

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Freycinetia cumingiana (Cultivated)

Freycinetia cumingiana Gaudich., Voy. Bonite, Bot. 3: t. 38, t. 60 1841. (syn: Freycinetia luteocarpa Elmer [Invalid]; Freycinetia luzonensis C.Presl; Freycinetia membranifolia Elmer ex Merr. [Invalid]);  Philippines as per WCSP;      Request for ID : 260411 : AK-2: Again at the Flower Show at Jijamata Udyan, Mumbai in February, 2011. Hieght of the plant […]

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Freycinetia

Freycinetia cumingiana Gaudich. (Cultivated)         Indian Pandanaceae – an overview By Altafhusain Nadaf, Rahul Zanan (2013)- Freycinetia rigidifolia Hemsl. Freycinetia sumatrana Hemsl.          

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Opuntia engelmannii

Opuntia engelmannii Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. [ed. 1849] 67, 235 67 1849. (Syn: Opuntia alta Griffiths; Opuntia cacanapa Griffiths & Hare; Opuntia chisosensis (M.S. Anthony) D.J. Ferguson; Opuntia engelmannii var. alta (Griffiths) Weniger; Opuntia engelmannii var. cacanapa (Griffiths & Hare) Weniger; Opuntia engelmannii var. subarmata (Griffiths) Weniger; Opuntia engelmannii var. texana (Griffiths) Weniger; Opuntia lindheimeri var. […]

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Phyllanthus elegans (Vietnam)

Phyllanthus elegans Wall. ex Müll.Arg., Linnaea 32: 46 1863. (Syn: Diasperus elegans (Wall. ex Müll.Arg.) Kuntze; Phyllanthus glaucifolius Ridl.);     Phyllanthus elegans from Vietnam_RKC_02_25042011: Phyllanthus elegans for you. Loc.: HonBa Natural Reserve, Vietnam Date: 12th April, 2011 habit: Shrub upto 3 m high.       References: The Plant List  Flora of Thailand (with keys […]

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Pseudogynoxys

Pseudogynoxys chenopodioides (Kunth) Cabrera (Images by Mani Nair (ID by Ajinkya), Dinesh Valke, Prashant Awale, Satish Phadke, Narendra Joshi (ID by Satish Phadke) and Sandhya (ID by Ajinkya) (Inserted by Gurcharan Singh) (Please click links to see details and more images)   Pseudogynoxys page (‎‎‎‎‎‎‎Asteraceae (Compositae)‎) with images of species in efloraofindia : 1 post by 1 author. Pl. go through Pseudogynoxys page (Asteraceae (Compositae)‎) with images of species in […]

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Euphorbia tortilis

Euphorbia tortilis Rottler ex Ainslie, Materia indica 2: 424 1826. ;  Armed thick fleshy shrubs to trees, stem spirally twisted, 3 angled, spines to 1 cm. Leaves small, deciduous. Cyathia axillary, in clusters; peduncles 0.5 cm; involucre cupular, 3 x 5 mm; glands 5, thick; male flowers in groups of 5; stalk 1.5 mm; female […]

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Lysiloma latisiliquum (Introduced)

Lysiloma latisiliquum (L.) Benth. (Syn: Acacia bahamensis (Benth.) Griseb.; Acacia formosa A.Rich.; Acacia latisiliqua (L.) Willd.; Leucaena latisiliqua (L.) Gillis & Stearn; Lysiloma bahamense Benth. [Spelling variant]; Lysiloma bahamensis Benth.; Lysiloma latisiliqua Sauvalle; Lysiloma latisiliqua (L.) Benth. [Spelling variant]; Mimosa latisiliqua L.);       Lysiloma latisiliquum @ Uran: Early April 2011. Lysiloma latisiliquum (L) Benth. […]

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Heritiera fomes

IUCN Red List Status: Endangered (EN) Heritiera fomes Buch.-Ham., Embassy ed. 2, 3: 319 1800. (Syn: Amygdalus minor (Roxb.) Kuntze; Balanopteris minor Gaertn.; Fometica punctata Raf.; Heritiera minor (Gaertn.) Roxb.); India: Among mangroves in West Bengal (Sunderbans) and Orissa; Bangladesh and Myanmar (Irrawaddyy delta) as per BSI Flora of India; Sundari: Heritiera fomes in flower […]

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Caryota mitis

Caryota mitis Lour., Fl. Cochinch. 697 1790. (Syn: Caryota furfuracea Blume ex Mart.; Caryota griffithii Becc.; Caryota griffithii var. selebica Becc.; Caryota javanica Zipp. ex Miq. [Illegitimate]; Caryota nana Linden; Caryota propinqua Blume ex Mart.; Caryota sobolifera Wall. ex Mart.; Caryota sobolifera Wall.; Caryota speciosa Linden; Drymophloeus zippellii Hassk.; Thuessinkia speciosa Korth.);   Images by […]

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Murdannia dimorpha

Murdannia dimorpha (Dalzell) G.Brückn., Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2 15a: 173 1930. (Syn: Aneilema dimorphum Dalzell; Aneilema paniculatum Wight; Phaeneilema dimorphum (Dalzell) G.Brückn.);   Images by Prashant Awale (Id by Mayur Nandikar) & Anurag N Sharma (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more images & complete details, click on the links)    Flora of Andaman27 Murdannia Sp. -090111-PKA1: I […]

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Ageratina (Asteroideae- Eupatorieae)

  Ageratina adenophora (Spreng.) R.M.King & H.Rob. (Images by tspkumar & Gurcharan Singh) Chromolaena odorata (L.) R.M.King & H.Rob. (Images by J.M.Garg (Id by Akramul Hoque & Validation by E S Santhosh Kumar), Balkar Singh (Id by Gurcharan Singh), Surajit Koley, Dinesh Valke & Neil Soares (id by Dinesh Valke) (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more images & complete details, click […]

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Hedyotis purpurascens

Hedyotis purpurascens Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 50 1880. (syn: Hedyotis purpurascens var. pallida (Gamble) M.Mohanan; Hedyotis purpurea Bedd. [Illegitimate]; Oldenlandia purpurascens (Hook.f.) Kuntze; Oldenlandia purpurascens var. pallida Gamble);  India (Tamil Nadu, Kerala) as per WCSP;   Malayalam Koonthamaniyan Erect shrubs, branches with prominent leaf scars. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, base acute, glabrous, to 6 x […]

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Papilionanthe teres

Papilionanthe teres (Roxb.) Schltr., Orchis 9: 78 1915. (Syn: Dendrobium teres Roxb.; Papilionanthe teres f. candida (Rchb.f.) Christenson; Vanda teres (Roxb.) Lindl.; Vanda teres var. candida Rchb.f.; Vanda teres var. canida Rchb. f.);       ID help for orchid: This is the most common orchid in our campus. Location: Makunda Christian Hosptial campus, Karimganj District, […]

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Papilionanthe

  Species with description & keys in Flora of China :  Papilionanthe biswasiana (Ghose & Mukerjee) Garay Papilionanthe taiwaniana (S. S. Ying) Ormerod Papilionanthe teres (Roxburgh) Schlechter Papilionanthe vandarum (H. G. Reichenbach) Garay   Floristic Diversity of Assam: Study of Pabitora Wildlife Sanctuary By Bora, Yogendra Kumar (2003)- Species with description- Papilionanthe teres       […]

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Costus dubius

Costus dubius (Afzel.) K.Schum., Pflanzenr. IV, 46: 409 1904. (Syn: Costus albus A.Chev. ex Koechlin; Costus edulis De Wild. & T.Durand; Costus trachyphyllus K.Schum.; Costus zechii K.Schum.; Zingiber dubium Afzel.);   Image by Indrerjeet Sethi (ID by M. Sabu)   fruits and vegetables: Pls help in the identification. This picture was taken in Coorg on 17th […]

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Thlaspi montanum

Thlaspi montanum L., Sp. Pl. 647, 1753 (Syn: Thlaspi cochleariforme Auct. (non DC.); T. cochleariforme subsp. griffithianum (Boiss.) Jafri; T. alpestre auct. (non L.); FBI 1: 162, 1872) as per FBI;   Images by Alok Mahendroo (Id by Gurcharan Singh), Suresh Rana, Ashwini Bhatia & Gurcharan Singh (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more photos & complete details, click on the links) […]

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Euphorbia dracunculoides

Euphorbia dracunculoides Lam., Encycl. 2: 428 1788. (Syn: Tithymalus dracunculoides (Lam.) Klotzsch & Garcke); Images by Gurcharan Singh, (For more photos & complete details, click on the links), (inserted by Bhagyashri Ranade) Euphorbia dracunculoides from Tikkar tal lake, Morni, Haryana: Euphorbia dracunculoides Lamarck, Encycl. 2: 428. 1788. syn: Euphorbia lanceolata Sprengel; Tithymalus dracunculoides (Lamarck) Klotzsch […]

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Psychotria nigra

Psychotria nigra (Gaertn.) Alston, Handb. Fl. Ceylon 6(Suppl.): 152 1931. (Syn: Grumilea nigra Gaertn.; Grumilea nudiflora Thwaites; Psychotria nigra var. nigra ; Psychotria thwaitesii Hook.f.; Psychotria thwaitesii var. coronata Hook.f.; Psychotria thwaitesii var. zeylanica Hook.f.; Uragoga thwaitesii (Hook.f.) Kuntze); S. India, Sri Lanka as per WCSP;   ANJAN14/14 Rubiaceae Shrub for identification : 4 posts by […]

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