Croton megalocarpus Hutch., Fl. Trop. Afr. 6(1): 760 1912. (syn: Croton elliotianus Pax [Illegitimate]); . S. Somalia to S. Tropical Africa: Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre as per POWO; . Tree For ID : Kenya : 24OCT16 : AK-29 : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2) Seen in the first week of July. No flowers, only…
Centaurea benedicta (L.) L., 1296 1763. (syn: Benedicta officinalis Bernh.; Calcitrapa benedicta (L.) Sw.; Calcitrapa lanuginosa Lam.; Carbenia benedicta (L.) Benth.; Cardosanctus officinalis (Bernh.) Bub.; Carduus benedictus (L.) Garsault; Carduus benedictus (L.) Steud.; Centaurea centriflora Friv. ex Gugler; Centaurea pseudobenedicta E. H. L. Krause; Cnicus benedictus L.; Cnicus benedictus var. kotschyi (Sch. Bip.) Boiss.; Cnicus bulgaricus P. P. Panov; Cnicus kotschyi Sch. Bip.; Cnicus microcephalus Boiss.; Cnicus pseudobenedictus Hort. Dorpat. ex Aschers.; Epitrachys microcephala C. Koch; Hierapicra benedicta (L.) Kuntze); England (I), Ireland (I), France (I), Portugal, Spain, Belgium…
Ajania tibetica (Hook.f. & Thomson) Tzvelev, Fl. URSS 26 410 1961. (syn: Ajania sikangensis Ling; Chrysanthemum tibeticum (Hook. fil. & Thomson ex C. B. Cl.) R. V. Kamelin; Chrysanthemum tibeticum (Hook. fil. & Thomson) Hoffm.; Chrysanthemum tibeticum (Hook. fil. & Thomson) S. Y. Hu; Chrysanthemum tibeticum B. Fedtsch.; Pyrethrum tibeticum Hook. fil. & Thoms. ex C. B. Cl.; Tanacetum tibeticum Hook. fil. & Thomson); Tibet, China (Sichuan),…
Eritrichium spathulatum (Benth.) C. B. Cl., J.D.Hooker, Fl. Brit. India 4: 164 (1883). (syn: Cynoglossospermum spathulatum (Benth.) Kuntze; Echinospermum spathulatum Benth.; Eritrichium canum var. spathulatum (Benth.) Y.J.Nasir; Eritrichium jacquemontii Decne.); . NE. Pakistan to Tibet: Pakistan, Tibet, West Himalaya as per POWO; . Boraginaceae week: Unidentified one from Hemis Ladakh: 5 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (3) Seen…
Geranium saxatile Kar. & Kir., Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 15: 177 1842. (syn: Geranium collinum var. alpinum Regel; Geranium collinum var. saxatile [Kar. & Kir.] Regel; Geranium grandiflorum var. alpinum (Regel) R. Knuth in Engl.; Geranium regelii Nevski); Central Asia to Mongolia and Pakistan as per POWO; Fwd: Geraniums in Ladakh Part I : 8 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (6) I am posting some fine images of a showy Geranium taken…
Plants of Ladakh – ID Request2 – 19Jun09:SJ: This is the only photo of this potted plant. Would much appreciate ID. looking like Adenium Most likely to be a Solanaceae, Solanum may be… Xeromphis or Himalrandia sp?? I too agree with …, its very close to Solanaceae, Did not find any match…
Andropogon hallii Hack., Sitzungsber. Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss., Wien, Math.-Naturwiss. Cl., Abt. 1 89: 127 1884. (syn: Andropogon gerardii subsp. hallii (Hack.) Wipff; Andropogon gerardii var. incanescens (Hack.) B.Boivin; Andropogon gerardii var. paucipilus (Nash) Fernald; Andropogon hallii var. bispicatus Vasey ex Beal, pro syn.; Andropogon hallii var. flaveolus Hack.; Andropogon hallii var. incanescens Hack.; Andropogon hallii var. muticus Hack.; Andropogon paucipilus Nash; Andropogon provincialis var. paucipilus (Nash) Fernald & Griscom; Leptopogon flaveolus (Hack.) Roberty; Sorghum hallii (Hack.) Kuntze); . Central Canada to N. & W. Central U.S.A.: Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,…
Emilia fosbergii Nicolson, Phytologia 32: 34. 1975 34 1975. (syn: Cacalia coccinea Sims; Emilia coccinea (Sims) G. Don); . Angola, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, ?South Sudan, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, ?Benin, Togo, Bioko Isl. (Fernando Poo), Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo (Brazzaville), Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, ?Sao Tome, Costa Rica (I), Panama (I),…
Asteraceae Fortnight : Part 1 – Radiate Heads : Request For ID : Nairobi,Kenya : 080513 : AK-14 : Attachments (1). 2 posts by 2 authors. A small plant seen on 23/1/2009 in Nairobi, Kenya. Cultivated, garden plant with white flowers. Id please. Erigeron alpinus ?? I think looks different as per https://www.gbif.org/species/9074530 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erigeron_alpinus https://www.plant-world-seeds.com/store/view_seed_item/2933…
Potentilla pamirica Th.Wolf, Trudy Imp. Bot. Sada Petra Velikago 31: 489 (1915); . Tajikistan (Pamir Alai), S.W.Mongolia, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Kashmir and China (Zizang and Kunlun Shan) as per Flora of Pakistan; . Common name: Pamir Cinquefoil . Potentilla fruticosa from Ladakh (16/06/2011 NSJ-01): Potentilla fruticosa from Ladakh. Pl validate. Not Potentilla fruticosa …, which…
Astragalus oplites Benth. ex R. Parker, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1921: 270 1921. (syn: Astragalus cicerifolius Royle ex Bunge; Astragalus microphyllus Jacquem. ex Baker; Astragalus oplites Benth. ex Baker; Astragalus zanskarensis subsp. oplites (Benth. ex Parker) Deml; Tragacantha cicerifolia (Bunge) Kuntze); . China (Xinjiang), Tibet, Jammu & Kashmir (Ladakh, Nubra), NW-India (Kunawar) as per Catalogue of Life; . Astragalus sp-??- at Changla pass route – Ladakh– July-PKA-36 : 8…
Marrubium vulgare : For Validation : Kenya : 19AUG16 : AK-21 : 21/21 : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2) Seen growing wild in Nairobi. Kindly validate. Looks different from images at net e.g. at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrubium_vulgare Thanks for the correction. Hope to get the correct id. Hoping you’re right Did not find any Marrubium species listing…
Pseudoraphis minuta (Mez) Pilg., Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 10: 210 1928. (syn: Chamaeraphis minuta Mez; Pseudoraphis minuta var. laevis B.K.Simon); . India to Indo-China, N. Australia: Assam, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Northern Territory, Queensland, Vietnam as per POWO; . Hooghly : grass : sk : 31/5/13 : Attachments (7). 7 posts by 3 authors. Date/Time- 24/5/13; 11.40 am Location-…
Solanum coactiliferum J. M. Black, Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. South Australia 33: 224 1909; . Australia (C-Western Australia, S-Northern Territory, SW-Queensland, W-New South Wales, NW-Victoria) as per Catalogue of Life; . Id confirmation-Solanum: Solanum sturtianum-Pl confirm.-from Australia. Solanum coactiliferum J.M.Black ?? I am also with … Yes possible as per https://keys.lucidcentral.Solanum_coactiliferum.htm https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Solanum~coactiliferum http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/Solanum_coactiliferum.htm http://plantsoftheworldonline.names:818736-1 Great…
Croton dichogamus Pax, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 43: 78 1909. ?; . Ethiopia to Mozambique: Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda as per POWO; . Shrubs For ID : Kenya : 14OCT16 : AK-20 : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (5) Seen in Kenya in the Mara Triangle, Masai Mara near the banks of River…
Plant of Indonesia 4: Asteraceae of Mt Slamet : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) Another Asteraceae, we would like to know the name please Sonchus oleraceus L. ?? Thanks, …, for the initial id. Sonchus asper is more likely (if found there) rather than Sonchus oleraceus OK …! May be some other species as it…
Saussurea schultzii Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 366 (1881) (syn: Theodorea schultzii (Hook.f.) Kuntze); N. Pakistan to W. Himalaya and W. Tibet as per POWO; Images by Sayed Nudrat Zawar, ID by Gurcharan Singh, Pankaj Kumar, Srikant Ingalhalikar, Saroj Kasaju and J M Garg ID for Leh Flowers 33 a-c : 9 posts by 5 authors. Attachments (3) Please identify this…
Shrub For ID : Kenya : 25AUG16 : AK-30 : 30/30 : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (4) Shrub seen in the first week of July. Tiny flowers. Boraginaceae member ? Diospyros sp., Thanks for the clue … I will try searching further.
Hibiscus calyphyllus Cav. (syn: Hibiscus calycinus Willd.; Hibiscus wildii Suess.); . Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cape Provinces, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe as per POWO; . Wild Flower for ID : Kenya…
Tree For ID : Kenya : 19AUG16 : AK-19 : 19/19 : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3) A medium sized tree with round fruits seen in first week of July in a village. Not sure whether cultivated or growing wild Resembles Flacourtia Sp.