99. Efloraofindia website updated upto 30th April’19

Efloraofindia website updated upto 30th April’19 – more than 12,000 species : 5 posts by 4 authors. It’s heartening to reiterate that Efloraofindia is the largest google e-group/ forum in the world in this field & the largest nature related e-group (and the most constructive) in India with around 3,21,400 messages so far & membership […]

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Hygrocybe species- Phedi, Nagarkot, Nepal

  SK1881 01 May 2019 – Mycophyta : 5 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2) – 3 Mb each. Location: Phedi, Nagarkot Date: 9 August 2016 Elevation: 1600 m. Habit : Wild  Can we have any idea about the family with these images ? Any ‎Hygrocybe species as per representative images herein ? Hygrocybe coccinea ??  Yes … it can […]

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Hemerocallis ‘Bonanza’

Hemerocallis ‘Bonanza’;   Lilly for identification 250611MK01:   Please help to identify this ornamental herb. Date/Time- 09-04-2011 / 05:10 PM Location- Place, Altitude, GP ca.1800m ASL; Kothagiri, TN Habitat- Garden/ Urban/ Wild/ Type- garden Plant Habit- herb Height/Length- 0.5 m long bush Leaves Type/ Shape/ Size- c. 20 – 30 cm long Inflorescence Type/ Size- Flowers […]

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Amanita vaginata ?

Amanita vaginata (Bull.) Lam., 1783 ?;   SK1885 03 May 201 : 7 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2)- around 650 kb each.  Location: Phedi, Nagarkot Date: 1 Sep 2018 Elevation: 2100 m. Habit : Wild  Pl. check comparative images at  /species–fungi/a—l/b/basidiomycota/agaricomycetes/agaricales  Xerula species by any chance as per another thread ? No not at all… This is […]

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Changes in Group settings (6.5.19)

Changes in Group settings done recently : 5 posts by 2 authors. Google has done changes in Group settings recently. I have crossed checked and it is as per our original settings only. However, they are now allowing attachments upto size of 25 Mb from 8 Mb earlier. If anybody faces any issues, pl. let us […]

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Russula species- Suryabinayak, Bhaktapur, Nepal

SK1878 30 April 2019 – Mycophyta : 5 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (6)- around 800 kb each.  Location: Suryabinayak, Bhaktapur Date: 28 April 2019 Elevation: 1419 m. Habit : Wild Any idea about the family or Order ? Genus Russula under Russulaceae, Russulales, Basidiomycota. There are large number of white Russulas. So you should […]

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Agaricus species- Wayanad, Karnataka

     Mushrooms growing on elephant dropping. : Attachments (4). 5 posts by 4 authors. ID of the mushroom please. All the four pictures are taken of onesingle mushroom growing on elephant dropping. Remnants of the dropping on the root. Diameter of mushroom cap 3″ roughly. The gills structure and morphology reminds me of Coprinus […]

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Russula species?- Phedi, Nagarkot, Nepal

  SK1872 27 April 2019 – Mycophyta : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3)- 1 Mb each.  Location: Phedi, Nagarkot Date: 9 August 2015 Elevation: 1600 m. Habit : Wild  Russula species by any chance ? Could be …!

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Gagea bulbifera

Gagea bulbifera (Pall.) Salisb., Ann. Bot. (König & Sims) 2: 557 1806. (syn: Gagea bulbifera var. armena Miscz.; Gagea bulbifera var. chersonica Lindemann; Gagea bulbifera f. ebulbillifera Grossh.; Gagea bulbifera var. major Besser ex Schult. & Schult.f.; Gagea bulbifera var. nuda Regel; Gagea polyphylla Steven; Hornungia bulbifera (Pall.) Rouy; Ornithogalum bulbiferum Pall.; Stellaster bulbifer (Pall.) […]

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Collybia species ?- Telkot, Nagarkot, Nepal

  SK1894 06 May 2019 – Mycophyta : 5 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (4) Location: Telkot, Nagarkot Date: 8 September 2016 Elevation: 1500 m. Habit : Wild  May be from Order Agaricales as per representative images herein /species–fungi/a—l/b/basidiomycota/agaricomycetes/agaricalesPl. check.  Check for Collybia species or some closely related genus.  I think these are just newly appearing fruiting […]

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Russula species?- Charikot, Dolkha, Nepal

  SK1858 23 April 2019 – Mycophyta : 5 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2)- around 650 kb each. Location:  Charikot, DolkhaDate: 23 July 2014Elevation: 1800 m. Habit : Wild Stipe and gills not clear. Agree. From faint gills which I can see, can it be some Russula‎ species as per representative images herein ? Yes …! […]

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Ganoderma species ?- Kalinchok, Dolkha, Nepal

  SK1846 18 April 2019 – Mycophyta : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) – 897 kb. Location:  Kalinchok, DolkhaDate: 26 July 2014Elevation: 2500 m. Habit : Wild Family Fomitopsidaceae as per representative images herein ?  Could not find the exact match. May be some Ganoderma species from Ganodermataceae?

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Russula‎ species- Kalinchok, Dolkha

  SK1844 3 17 April 2019 – Mycophyta : 8 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) Location:  Kalinchok, DolkhaDate: 26 July 2014Elevation: 2500 m. Habit : Wild Location:  Kalinchok, DolkhaDate: 26 July 2014Elevation: 2500 m. Habit : Wild  I guess both are same sp. Attachments (2) Better not to try for id with this image as underside can not be […]

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103rd TAW at Heritage Garden, Hiranandani Powai

103rd TAW at Heritage Garden, Hiranandani Powai on 12th May,2019 at 7.30am : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) Heritage Garden of Hiranandani Powai  has reputation of having fashion parade of flowers in the months of January/Feburary and in this month  its Fruit Trail..………the Anjani, Arjun,  Ashok, Ratan Gunj, Rose apple, Chibil, Lacucha, Muchakund, […]

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Gagea reticulata

Gagea reticulata (Pall.) Schult. & Schult.f., Syst. Veg. 7: 542 1829. (syn: Gagea alexandrina Boiss.; Gagea circinata (L.f.) Loudon; Gagea pseudoreticulata Vved.; Gagea reticularis Salisb. [Illegitimate]; Gagea reticulata f. circinata (L.f.) Pascher; Gagea reticulata var. pascualis Levichev; Gagea reticulata var. tenuifolia Boiss.; Gagea teheranica Gand.; Gagea tenuifolia (Boiss.) Fomin; Hornungia circinnata (L.f.) Bernh.; Ornithogalum circinatum […]

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Amanita species- Phedi, Nagarkot, Nepal

  SK1888 04 May 201 – Mycophyta : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2)- around 800 kb each.  Location: Phedi, Nagarkot Date: 1 Sep 2018 Elevation: 1500 m. Habit : Wild  Looks like Amanita sp. Family – Amanitaceae Can’t say more than this without looking at its gills and spores. Amanita muscaria ??  

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World Flora Online (WFO), a successor of The Plant List

World Flora Online (WFO), a successor of The Plant List : 16 posts by 8 authors. The Plant List (TPL) was a working list of all known plant species produced by the botanical community in response to Target 1 of the 2002-2010 Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC). TPL has been static since 2013, but […]

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