• Musa sabuana

    Musa sabuana K.Prasad, A.Joe, Bheem. & B.R.P.Rao, Indian J. Forest. 36: 151 (2013) (syn: Musa indandamanensis L.J.Singh); . Andaman Is., Nicobar Is. as per POWO; . Images of new species: Kindly find enclosed herewith the images of new species recently described from Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Musa indandamanensis L. J. Singh (Musaceae)…

  • Rubiaceae member?- Jawadhu hills of Eastern ghats, TN

      Shrub from Jawadhu hills 1 image. Found in Jawadhu hills of Eastern ghats,TN, altitude around 800M MSL. Lauraceae member? the buds do not look like Lauraceae, may be Rubiaceae or some other family  

  • Goniothalamus simonsii

    Goniothalamus simonsii Hook. f. & Thomson, Fl. Ind. 1: 108 1855. ; . Arunachal Pradesh? , Assam? , Meghalaya as per India Biodiversity Portal; . Shrub or small tree about 2-3 m tall, young parts brown pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, narrow obovate-elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 24-40 x 7-14 cm across, base acute…

  • Agave species- Nog, Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh

    131222020PP3 Request for identification of this tree. Date: 19th June 2020 Time: 0948 hrs Location- Nog, Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh Habitat- Wild, on the hills near Sutlej river P.S Saxicola caprata (Pied Bushchat) – Male sitting on apex Agave sp. Agave Inflorescence only  

  • Bassia indica

    Bassia indica (Wight) A. J. Scott, Feddes Repert. 89: 108. (1978). (syn: Kochia indica Wight; Kochia griffithii Bunge ex Boiss.; Kochia scoparia subsp. indica (Wight) Aellen; Bassia joppensis Bornm. & Dinsm.); . Morocco; Algeria; Tunisia; Libya; Afghanistan (Nangarhar); Pakistan (Sind, Baluchistan, N. W. Frontier Prov., Pakistani Punjab); NW-India (Jammu, Ladakh, Jammu &…

  • Dalbergia malabarica

    Dalbergia malabarica Prain, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 70: 48 (1901) (syn: Dalbergia tamarindifolia var. pubescens Baker); . India (N) ; Karnataka; Kerala; Maharashtra; Orissa; Tamil Nadu as per ILDIS; . dal-BERG-ee-uh — for Nils & Carl Dahlberg, Swedish botanist and officer, respectively … Dave’s Botanary mal-uh-BAR-ih-kuh — of or from the Malabar…

  • Strobilanthes aurita

    Strobilanthes aurita J. R. I. Wood, Kew Bull. 50: 12 1995. (syn: Mackenziea caudata T. P. Ramamoorthy); SW-India (Kerala, Karnataka) as per Catalogue of Life; . Subshrubs; branches terete, glabrous. Leaves 8-12 x 2-3 cm, elliptic, caudate acuminate, glabrous, entire; nerves 8 pairs. Spikes 1.5 x 2 cm axillary, solitary or…

  • Albizia species ?- Manipur

    id manipur flora june1 : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2) id of the plant in Manipur pl- seen in the orchid arboratum near Imphal. Thanks, … Was it a herb or a shrub ? It was a small tree please. Any other information …, like habit or leaves, Capparis sp. ?? Inflorescence looks like that…

  • Reworked menu on efloraofindia.com

    Reworked menu on efloraofindia.com I have reworked on the Menu (Side bar, Navigation at bottom and Top Menu). A few things which were left out earlier have been added. I hope it is fine now. Looking good, Sir It looks wonderful, …  

  • Hosta ‘Blue Angel’

    Hosta ‘Blue Angel’; . Flower for ID – New York – 021113 – RK – 1 : Attachments (2 + 1). 3 posts by 2 authors. At the Cloisters, New York – 20/06/13 – afternoon. Request ID. Looks like some Hosta to me. yes Hosta ‘Blue Angel’ . References: missouribotanicalgarden https://www.waltersgardens.com/variety.php?ID=HSBLA https://www.growingcolors.com/plant/Hosta-Blue-Angel

  • Flora of Vetal Tekdi, Pune

    Book Release Vetal Tekdi Pune Maharashtra It gives me intense pleasure to announce the release of my Book tomorrow. Thanks to all members and moderators of this fantastic group. I welcome you all to join the book launch function on Zoom or FB Live. Satish Phadke is inviting you to…

  • Hedychium species- Sairep, Mizoram

    MS, Dec., 2020/04 Hedychium sp. for id.: 3 images. Location : Sairep Date : 23-09-2016 Habit : Herb Habitat : Wild Hedychium spicatum Sm. ?? Hedychium sp.  

  • Message for non-updating of our existing site

    What message should we write ? Due to non-updating of our existing site, what message should we write as a Site notice, in place of the existing one. Currently we have the following disposable message, which is displayed when anyone opens the site: ‘Pl. post your images to indian…@googlegroups.com or jmg…@gmail.com for incorporation…

  • Ilex excelsa ?

    Ilex excelsa (Wall.) Hook. fil. ?; , Spike-thorn family? ABMAY01/16 : 8 posts by 3 authors. 7 images. This tree is flowering now but the tiny flowers are high up in the tree. I tried my best to take a clear picture for a tight crop. The leaves are entire, glossy and dark green….

  • Trachys muricata ?

    Trachys muricata ? . Please ID 230916PA1 : 2 posts by 1 author. Attachments (1) Sending two images for identification. Reported from plateau habitat junnar Maharashtra. White tomentose leaves one is Trachys muricata,    

  • Jasminum lanceolaria

    Jasminum lanceolaria Roxb., Fl. Ind. 1: 98 1820. (syn: Jasminum discolor Franch.;  Jasminum dunnianum H.Lév.; Jasminum lanceifolium Roxb., not validly publ.; Jasminum lanceolaria var. puberulum Hemsl.; Jasminum lanceolaria f. unifoliolatum Hand.-Mazz.; Jasminum lonchophyllum Voigt;  Jasminum pachyphyllum Hemsl.; Jasminum paniculatum Roxb.; Jasminum shimadae Hayata; Jasminum superfluum Koidz.); . Assam to Nansei-shoto and Indo-China: Andaman Is., Assam,…

  • Our new https://efloraofindia.com/ site is ready now

    Our new https://efloraofindia.com/ site is ready now I am back on efloraofindia e-group. This is in continuation of my earlier post at eFloraofIndia Google site will no longer be edited. I could incorporate around 2600 edits (including images in them) in around 1400 posts (pages) from 26.10.20 to 3.12.20, in our new…

  • Quercus lanata

    Quercus lanata Sm., in A.Rees, Cycl. 29: n.° 27 (1814) (syn: Quercus banga Ham. ex Hook.f. ; Quercus banga Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don ; Quercus lanuginosa D.Don ; Quercus lanuginosa subsp. eulanuginosa A.Camus ; Quercus nepaulensis Desf. ; Quercus oblongata D.Don ); . Sri Lanka, Himalaya to China (Yunnan, Sichuan): China South-Central, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam,…

  • plants/ grasses- cleaning nitrates and phosphates from waste water

    plants/ grasses that help in cleaning nitrates and phosphates from waste water I wanted to ask you or the group if you know the plants/grasses that help in cleaning nitrates and phosphates from waste water. Different aquatic plant species, such as water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), duck weed (Lemna spp.), water…

  • Rules

    Rules Sometimes it is so difficult to ID plant species with even with images covering   all aspects of plant parts. And some of the members posting very blurred images, only flower close-ups and one or two images only. I believe it would not be difficult take different angle images of…