Ruellia ciliatiflora (outside India)

Ruellia ciliatiflora Hook., Bot. Mag. 66: t. 3718 1839. (syn: Ruellia lorentziana Griseb.; Ruellia lorentziana paraguariensis Hassl.; Ruellia lorentziana parvifolia Hassl.; Arrhostoxylum ciliatiflorum (Hook.) Nees); . Mexico (Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Colima, Durango, Hidalgo, Morelos, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatán); Colombia […]

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Jasminum attenuatum

Jasminum attenuatum Roxb. ex G.Don, Prodr. 8: 309 1844. (syn: Jasminum banlanense P.Y.Pai; Jasminum robustifolium Kobuski); . Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, China South-Central, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam as per POWO; . MS Jan.2017/07 Climber for ID : 6 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (3) Location : Sairep, Mizoram Date : 25-01-2017 Habit : Climber Habitat : Wild Jasminum? Jasminum polyanthum ? […]

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Asystasia variabilis

Asystasia variabilis (Nees ex DC.) Trim., Handb. Fl. Ceylon 3: 324 1895. (syn: Asystasia chelonoides var. quadrangularis Clarke; Asystasia gangetica var. variabilis Nees ex DC.; Asystasia nemorum var. angustifolia Thw. ex T. Anders.); S. India, Sri Lanka as per POWO; .     Acanthaceae Fortnight ::ID Request ??:: Chikmagalur :: PKA-MAR62/62: : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (10) Looks like some Acanthaceae sp. again..  I had […]

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Neanotis decipiens

Neanotis decipiens (Hook.f.) W.H.Lewis, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 53: 37 1966. (syn: Anotis decipiens Hook.f.); . S.India as per POWO; .  Procumbent herbs, rooting at lower nodes; stems glabrous. Leaves ovate, acuminate, sparsely villous; nerves 7-9 pairs; petiole 3 cm long, hairy. Cymes 3-5 cm across, terminal; branches glabrous, slender. Flowers 5-6 mm long, blue or pink, subsessile; calyx […]

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Beccarinda tonkinensis

Beccarinda tonkinensis (Pellegr.) B.L.Burtt (syn: Beccarinda sinensis (Chun) B.L. Burtt; Slackia sinensis Chun; Slackia tonkinensis Pellegr.); Common name: Tonkin Beccarinda . Beccarinda tonkinensis (Gesneriaceae), a new record for India 2 attachments (jpg and pdf). Here attached a new addition for eFI. Please convey my  congratulations and best wishes to   Dipankar ji for the esteemed publication.   . References: […]

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Tetracera scandens

Tetracera scandens (L.) Merr. (syn: Delima aspera (Lour.) Blanco; Delima frangulifolia C.Presl; Delima hebecarpa DC.; Delima piripu DC.; Delima scandens (L.) Burkill; Delima tripetala Nees & Blume; Tetracera aspera (Lour.) Raeusch.; Tetracera fragrans Ridl.’ Tetracera hebecarpa (DC.) Boerl.; Tetracera loureiroi (Finet & Gagnep.) Pierre ex Craib; Trachytella actaea DC.; Trachytella aspera (Lour.) DC.; Trachytella calligonum DC.; Traxilisa […]

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Synotis wallichii

Synotis wallichii (DC.) C.Jeffrey & Y.L.Chen, 305 1984. (syn: Cineraria doria Spreng. ex DC.; Senecio dentatus Wall.; Senecio wallichii DC.); . Central & E. Himalaya to Tibet as per POWO; . India (C- to E. Himalaya, Darjeeling), Sikkim, Nepal, Bhutan, Chumbi, Tibet as per Catalogue of Life;  . Similar to S.alata but slender, naked, entirely subterranean stem to 20cm sometimes present; aerial part 12-30cm;leaves always subrosulate at base of flowering stem, ovate, […]

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Viola reichenbachiana ?

Viola reichenbachiana Jord. ex Boreau, Fl. Centre France ed. 3, 2: 78 1857. (syn: Viola arenicola Chabert; Viola bertoti Souche; Viola canina Cham. & Schlechl.; Viola degener Schweigg. ex Mert. & Koch; Viola ericetorum Schrad. ex Link; Viola flavicornis E. Forst. ex Nym.; Viola formosa Vukot.; Viola idaea Gand.; Viola leucocentra Pinkw.; Viola maculata Giraudias; Viola neglecta Bieb.; Viola nemoralis Jord.; Viola reichenbachiana var. punctata (Rouy & Foucaud) P. D. Sell; Viola sylvestris Lam.; Viola sylvestris subvar punctata Rouy & Foucaud; Viola sylvestris Lam.; Viola sylvestris subvar punctata Rouy & Foucaud; Viola vicina Martr.; Viola vulgaris Rupr.; Viola wettsteinii Richt.) ?; Albania, Austria, Belgium, […]

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Prunus species ?- Phobjikha, Bhutan

For id from Phobjikha Bhutan 221020TT2 : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1)- 2 mb. Kindly help in identification of this plant, Collected from Phobjikha Bhutan on dated 27/7/2020 by Jigme Tshewang Any other image showing habit etc ? I doubt with Maddenia sp. its so regretted that I don’t have additional photo to send la.

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Ammannia lanceolata

Ammannia lanceolata B. Heyne ex Wall., Fl. Brit. India 2: 570 1879. (syn: Ammannia lanceolata B. Heyne ex C. B. Clarke; Ammannia verticillata Wight & Arn.; Ditheca verticillata Miq.; Nesaea lanceolata (Heyne ex Cl.) Koehne); Sri Lanka, India as per Catalogue of Life; . Unidentified Rotala (?) species : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3) Seen in a wet channel from leaking water from a small water hole. On 14/11/09 in Shamirpet in Rangareddi district of Andhra Pradesh, India. […]

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Aloe species ?- Panchkula, Haryana

Plants from Cactus Garden: Unid Succulent 2 from Panchkula : Attachments (5).  7 posts by 3 authors. Please help to identify this succulent growing in the same garden, I cannot certainly say about the fruit picture attached, whether this belongs to same or a different plant.. Fruits are from different plant. Attaching one photo here Thanks a lot … please […]

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Gardenia resinifera ?

Gardenia resinifera ?; . ID Please : Attachments (3). 2 posts by 2 authors. Called Ranchapha, having white flowering I hope Artabotrys zeylanicus Looks like Gardenia sp. Ranchapha name is given to  two sp. according to net, viiz., Desmos lawii (Hook.f. & Thoms.) Saff. and Chonemorpha fragrans (Moon) Alston, but not sure which one is the correct ID for this sp. It is neither of these two plants. […]

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Tropaeolum tuberosum (Cultivated- USA)

Tropaeolum tuberosum Ruiz & Pav., Fl. Peruv. 3: 77, t. 314 1802. (syn: Chymocarpus tuberosus (Ruiz & Pav.) Heynh.; Tropaeolum mucronatum Meyen; Trophaeum mucronatum (Meyen) Kuntze; Trophaeum tuberosum (Ruiz & Pav.) Kuntze); W. South America; Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru as per POWO; . Tropaeolum tuberosum from UCBG, California-GS27102020-1 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (2) Tropaeolum tuberosum Ruiz & Pav. Local name: Nashua in Ecuador and Peru Herbaceous perennial climber with edible tubers, which are […]

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Pilea martinii

Pilea martinii (H. Lév.) Hand.-Mazz., Symb. Sin. 7(1): 131 1929. (syn: Boehmeria martini H.Lév.); . Nepal to Central & S. China: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Nepal, Tibet as per POWO; . China (S-Gansu, N-Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, S-Shaanxi, E-Sichuan, S-Yunnan), Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim as per Catalogue of Life; . SK 2807 25 October 2020 : 12 posts by 2 authors. 8 images- 6 to […]

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Typha latifolia

Typha latifolia L., Sp. Pl. 971 1753. (syn: Massula latifolia (L.) Dulac; Typha ambigua Schur ex Rohrb.; Typha angustifolia var. inaequalis Kronf.; Typha angustifolia var. media Kronf.; Typha angustifolia var. sonderi Kronf.; Typha crassa Raf.; Typha elatior Boreau, nom. illeg.; Typha elatior Raf., nom. illeg.; Typha elongata (Dudley) Dudley; Typha engelmannii A.Br. ex Rohrb.; Typha intermedia Schur; Typha latifolia var. ambigua Sond.; Typha latifolia var. angustifolia Hausskn.; Typha latifolia f. divisa Louis-Marie; Typha latifolia var. elata Kronf.; Typha latifolia var. elatior Graebn.; Typha latifolia var. elongata Dudley; Typha latifolia subsp. eulatifolia Graebn., not validly publ.; Typha latifolia var. gracilis Godr.; Typha latifolia var. obconica Tkachik; Typha latifolia var. remotiuscula (Schur) Simonk.; Typha latifolia var. typica Rothm.; Typha major Curtis; Typha media Pollini, nom. illeg.; Typha palustris Bubani, nom. superfl.; Typha pendula Fisch. ex Sond.; Typha remotiuscula Schur; Typha spathulifolia Kronf.); Temp. Northern […]

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Combretum ovalifolium ?

C. ovalifolium Roxb. ex G. Don (syn: Combretum albidum G. Don ) ?; . Shrub ID from Bangladesh_SM_4011 : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) Picture take, Sep, 2018 from Sonadia Island, Cox’s Bazar Bougainvillea ? I think looks different. Combretum albidum, just a guess I too agree with you . large liana found on the banks of river Moyar in […]

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Daphne odora (Introduced- USA/ UK)

Daphne odora Thunb., Syst. Veg. ed. 14 372 1784. (syn: Daphne chinensis Spreng.; Daphne hybrida Lindl.; Daphne indica Loisel.; Daphne japonica Thunb.; Daphne japonica var. rosacea Makino; Daphne jejudoensis M. Kim; Daphne kiusiana var. odora (Thunb.) Makino; Daphne mazelii Carrière; Daphne odora C. P. Thunberg ex A. Murray; Daphne odora f. alba (Hemsl.) H. Hara; Daphne odora var. alba Hemsl.; Daphne odora f. leucantha (Makino) Y. J. Li; Daphne odora var. leucantha Makino; Daphne odora f. marginata Makino; Daphne odora var. mazeli (Carr.) Hemsl.; Daphne odora f. rosacea (Makino) H. Hara; Daphne odora var. variegata Bean; Daphne sinensis Lam.; Daphne speciosissima Carrière; Daphne triflora Lour.); . S. China to Vietnam, Taiwan: China South-Central, China Southeast, Taiwan, Vietnam; […]

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Daphne × transatlantica (Cultivated- USA)

Daphne × transatlantica C.D.Brickell & A.R.White, New Plantsman 7: 245 2000. ; . Daphne × transatlantica ‘Blafra’ Eternal Fragrance from California-GS28102020-4 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (2) Daphne × transatlantica ‘Blafra’ often marketed as Eternal Fragrance Species is hybrid, cross between D. caucasica (deciduous female) and D. collina (evergreen male). The cultivar is  rounded, open-branched shrub that features intensely fragrant white flowers in spring with irregular and sporadic continued […]

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Lauraceae member ?- Chandigarh

PM1 2-10-2018 tree id from chandigarh : 5 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (6) Habit- large tall tree, leaves 8-9 cm long by 2-3 cm wide, green smooth above; pale green densely hairy below; base oblique, young branches are covered with suberin like deposition. habitat- Garden locality- chandigarh date- 30-09-2018 Any idea about the family ? Lauraceae ?? Difficult to say.

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Synotis cappa

Synotis cappa (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) C.Jeffrey & Y.L.Chen, 319 1984. (syn: Cineraria uncinata Spreng. ex DC.; Senecio angulosus Wall.; Senecio aureus Wall.; Senecio cappa Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don; Senecio densiflorus Wall.; Senecio densiflorus var. lobbi Hook. fil.; Senecio nagensium var. lobbi (Hook. fil.) Craib; Senecio tsoongianus Ling; Senecio uncinellus DC.; Solidago angulosa Wall. ex DC.; Solidago densiflora Wall.); . Himalaya to China (Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi) and Indo-China as per POWO; . China (Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan), Tibet, India (West Bengal, Darjeeling, Meghalaya), Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar [Burma] (widespread), Vietnam as per Catalogue […]

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