• Dioscorea decipiens

    Dioscorea decipiens Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 293 1892. (syn: Dioscorea decipiens var. glabrescens C.T.Ting & M.C.Chang); China (Yunnan) to Indo-China: Bangladesh, China South-Central, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam as per POWO; . Fwd: ID No.1112020_1 RD : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) Please help me to identify this species of Dioscoreaceae. Place: Assam Date: 14/10/20 It looks like Dioscorea decipiens Hook. f. Thanks, …,…

  • Veronicastrum

    Veronicastrum brunonianum (Benth.) D.Y. Hong (China (Guizhou, W-Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan), Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim as per Catalogue of life)         

  • Veronicastrum brunonianum

    Veronicastrum brunonianum (Benth.) D.Y. Hong, Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 67(2): 230, 401, pl. 62 1979. (syn: Calorhabdos brunoniana Wall. ex Benth.; Veronica brunoniana Wall.); . China (Guizhou, W-Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan), Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim as per Catalogue of life; . SK 2820 03 November 2020 : 11 posts by 3 authors. 5 images- 7 mb each. Location: Kathmandu Valley Date:  October…

  • Picea mariana (Kew Garden, UK)

    Picea mariana (Mill.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb., Prelim. Cat. 71 1888. (syn: Abies mariana Mill.; Abies nigra (Castigl.) Du Roi; Peuce rubra Rich.; Picea brevifolia Peck; Picea brevifolia var. semiprostrata Peck; Picea mariana var. beissneri Rehder; Picea mariana var. brevifolia (Peck) Rehder; Picea mariana f. empetroides Vict. & J.Rousseau; Picea mariana f. fastigiata Rehder; Picea mariana var. fastigiata (Rehder) Rehder; Picea mariana f. grisea Vict.; Picea mariana f. nana (Beissn.) Rehder; Picea mariana f. semiprostrata (Peck) S.F.Blake; Picea mariana var. semiprostrata (Peck) Teeri; Picea mariana f. squamea Vict.; Picea nigra (Castigl.) Link; Picea nigra var. brevifolia (Peck) Rehder; Picea nigra var. fastigiata Carrière; Picea nigra var. nana Beissn.; Picea nigra var. semiprostrata (Peck) Brainerd, L.R.Jones & Eggl.; Picea nigra var. virgata Rehder; Pinus canadensis var. nigra Castigl.; Pinus marylandica Antoine; Pinus nigra Aiton); Subarctic America…

  • Veronica speciosa (Introduced)

    Veronica speciosa R.Cunn. ex A.Cunn., Bot. Mag. 63: t. 3461 1836. (syn: Hebe imperialis Cockayne; Hebe speciosa (R.Cunn. ex A.Cunn.) Andersen; Veronica hendersonii hort.; Veronica imperialis Hort. ex Vilmorin; Veronica kermesina Loud.; Veronica speciosa var. imperialis Boucharlat); . New Zealand (W-coastal cliffs of North Isl., endangered), Hawaii (I) (Hawaii Isl. (I) (Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (I)), USA (I) (California (I)), ?England (I), Ireland (I), Colombia (I), Mexico (I),…

  • Echinops sahyadricus

    Echinops sahyadricus Sushant More, Fabio Conti & Harshal S. Bhosale, Nordic Journal of Botany, Volume 38, Issue 10 (2020); .  Asteraceae Fortnight Part 2-Discoid heads- Echinop echinatus (NSJ-01): Attachments (3). 2 posts by 2 authors. Echinop echinatus (Indian globe thistle) from Satara It should be Echinops sphaerocephalus as per images, details and references herein. Echinops sahyadricus as per images and details…

  • Brugmansia versicolor (USA)

    Brugmansia versicolor Lagerh., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 20: 666 1895. (syn: Brugmansia dolichocarpa Lagerh.; Brugmansia mollis (Saff.) Moldenke; Datura dolichocarpa (Lagerh.) Saff.; Datura mollis Saff.; Datura versicolor (Lagerh.) Saff.); Venezuela (Merida), Ecuador, Mexico (I), Colombia (I), USA (I) (Georgia (I)), Trinidad & Tobago (I) as per Catalogue of Life; . Brugmansia versicolor ‘Betty Marshall’   Brugmansia versicolor ‘Betty Marshall’ from California-GS07112020-1 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (4) Brugmansia…

  • Crotalaria species- Rajouri, J & K

    please id : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2) spotted at an altitude of 1300msl in chirpine forest of northwest Himalaya (Rajouri, J&K) I hope Crotalaria sp

  • Calibrachoa ‘Balcabrite’ (USA)

    Calibrachoa ‘Balcabrite’; . Calibrachoa ‘Balcabrite’ from California-GS07112020-3 : 1 post by 1 author. Calibrachoa ‘Balcabrite’, often also marketed as Calibrachoe ‘Cabaret Bright Red’, is an evergreen perennial usually grown as an annual. It has trailing stems and small, simple leaves. Small, intense red flowers, with fine, dark red veins and a yellow throat, are produced over…

  • Calibrachoa ‘Orange Red Eye’ (USA)

    Calibrachoa ‘Orange Red Eye’; . Calibrachoa ‘Orange Red Eye’ from California-GS07112020-6 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (2) Calibrachoa Minifamous ‘Orange Red Eye’, beautiful cultivar with orange flowers having red centre. Photographed from Regan Nursery, Fremont, California, 30-7-2017 . References: https://www.dobies.co.uk/Garden/Flowers/Flower-Plants/All-Flower-Plants/Calibrachoa-Plants—Orange-Red-Eye_MH6068.htm

  • Calibrachoa ‘Cabaret Pink Vein’ (USA)

    Calibrachoa ‘Cabaret Pink Vein’; . Calibrachoa ‘ Hybrid Cabaret Pink Vein’ from California-GS07112020-7 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (2) Calibrachoa ‘Hybrid Cabaret Pink Vein’ Photographed from Summerwinds Nursery, Sunnyvale, California, 31-5-2014 . References: https://www.123rf.com/photo_34276411_calibrachoa-cabaret-pink-vein-cabaret-pink-vein-calibrachoa-annual-bedding-plant-with-green-leaves-a.html

  • Kalanchoe laciniata

    Kalanchoe laciniata (L.) DC., Pl. Hist. Succ. t. 100 1802. (syn: Cotyledon heterophylla Roxb.; Cotyledon laciniata L.; Kalanchoe biternata Wight ex Wall.; Kalanchoe brachycalyx Engl.; Kalanchoe densiflora var. subpilosa Cuf.; Kalanchoe gloveri Cufod.; Kalanchoe gracilis Hance; Kalanchoe laciniata subsp. faustii (Font Quer) Maire; Kalanchoe lentiginosa Cufod.; Kalanchoe macrosepala Hance; Kalanchoe rohlfsii Engl.; Kalanchoe schweinfurthii Penzig; Kalanchoe takeoi Hayata; Vereia laciniata (L.) Willd.); . South Sudan, Benin, Eritrea, Chad, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, ?Rwanda, ?Burundi, E-D.R.Congo (Zaire), Congo (Brazzaville), S-Angola, E-Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Mozambique, S-India,…

  • Clerodendrum chinense ?

    Clerodendrum chinense ?; . SK 2824 05 November 2020 : 7 posts by 2 authors. 3 images- 7 mb each. Location: Kathmandu Valley Date:  October 2020  Elevation: 1500m. Habitat  : Wild Looks like young plant of Clerodendrum chinense (Osbeck) Mabb.! Yes, appears close to Clerodendrum chinense Only doubt is that base appears to be more cordate.

  • Lactarius subindigo

    Lactarius subindigo Verbeken & E. Horak;   Lactarius subindigo Verbeken & E.Horak submission Nov20 AS2 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (3) Here’s one new mushroom addition to site. Lactarius subindigo Verbeken & E.Horak Family – Russulaceae It is considered as an good edible wild mushroom on bruising shows blue coloration, this particular individual was infected by…

  • Checklist of Flora of Ladakh

    Checklist of Flora of Ladakh : 4 posts by 2 authors. Pl. find Ladakh checklist by L. Klimeš and B. Dickoré as published in 2009 as per https://sites.google.com/a/shpa.org.uk/main/flora-of-ladakh?tmpl=%2Fsystem%2Fapp%2Ftemplates%2Fprint%2F&showPrintDialog=1 https://www.butbn.cas.cz/klimes/desert.html I think it may be more reliable as far as Ladakh Flora is concerned. BSI Floras of India may have been published much earlier….

  • Heliantheae member?- Munnar, Kerala

    Fwd: Identity : 4 posts by 1 author. Attachments (1). Can you please identify this plant??? Can you give more details of the plant along with sending smaller size pictures as per Posting Guidelines I got this picture from a friend of mine. She collected this plant from Munnar, Kerala. An Asteraceae herb. According to her, the plant…

  • Flammulina

    Flammulina populicola Redhead & R.H. Petersen Flammulina species- Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

  • Flammulina populicola

    Flammulina populicola Redhead & R.H. Petersen; Flammulina populonica submission Nov20 AS1 : 5 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (6) Flammulina populonica Family – Physalacriaceae Habitat – On Celtis australis rotting stump Photographed at Kullu, Himachal Pradesh In January 2020 I do not find any listing of it in Catalogue of Life. Searching for Flammulina populonica leads to Flammulina populicola. Wikipedia…

  • Elatostema obtusum

    Elatostema obtusum Wedd., Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. IV, 1: 190 1854. (syn: Dorstenia pubescens Blanco; Procris obtusa Wall.); . Himalaya to China: Assam, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Tibet, West Himalaya as per POWO; . China (S-Gansu, W-Hubei, NW-Hunan, S-Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan), SE-Tibet, Bhutan, NE-India, Nepal, Sikkim, Thailand as per Catalogue of Life; . Elatostema obtusum Wedd. : 5 posts by…