• Chrysanthemum cultivars- Mughal Gardens, Kashmir

    for ID 080710MN :  Attachments (1). 13 posts by 7 authors. Request ID of this flower. Date/Time : 11th June 2009- 9.00am  Location- Place, altitude and GPS: Mughal Gardens, Kashmir  Habitat- garden/ urban/wild/type:  Urban  Plant Habit-tree/shrub/climber/herb:  Herb  Height/length:  1 ft.  Leaves-type/shape/size  Inflorescence type /size:    Flowers-size/colour/calyx/bracts:  daisy like  Fruits type-shape/size/seeds:  –  Fragrance/odour/pollinator/uses  and so on:  fragrant…

  • Plectranthus malabaricus

    Plectranthus malabaricus (Benth.) R.H.Willemse, Blumea 25: 509 1979. (syn: Coleus leptostachys Benth.; Coleus macraei Benth.; Coleus malabaricus Benth.; Coleus ovatus Benth.; Coleus walkeri Benth.; Plectranthus malabaricus var. leptostachys (Benth.) R.H.Willemse); S. India, Sri Lanka as per POWO; Herbs, stem 4-angled, purplish. Leaves ovate, obtuse or acute, base truncate or subcordate, puberulous, to 15 x 13 cm. Panicles terminal, to 30 cm long. Calyx striate, upper lip broadly ovate, lower 3-lobed,…

  • Clerodendrum lasiocephalum

    Clerodendrum lasiocephalum C.B.Clarke as per efi thread; Shrub 3-10 ft tall. Bark brown, thin, branches and branchlets obtusely quadrangular, pubescent, nodes flattened. Leaves opposite, ovate-elliptic or sub-orbicular, 8-36 x 6-24 cm across, base acute, margin minutely dentate-serrate, apex acuminate, chartaceous, glabrous above and slightly pubescent beneath, lateral veins 6-9 on either side of…

  • Taraxacum species?- Oman

    Asteraceae Plant for ID : 260114 : AK-22 : Attachments (2).  1 post by 1 author. Small plant seen growing wild at 3000 metres in Oman on 4/1/14. Sonchus species? Sonchus olraceus  ?? Thanks, …, Looks different from Sonchus oleraceus May be some Taraxacum‎ species as per comparative images herein. OK …! Isn’t Taraxacum sp. single stem flower ……

  • Croton megalocarpus (Kenya)

    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 ? (USA)

    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

    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

    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 ?

    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…

  • Capsicum species/ Cultivars?- Ladakh

    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 (Introduced)

    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 ? (Kenya)

    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),…

  • Erigeron species- Nairobi, Kenya

    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

    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

    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…

  • Orthosiphon species ?- Nairobi, Kenya

    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

    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 (Australia)

    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 or Croton dichogamus (Kenya) ?

    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…

  • Sonchus species- Indonesia

    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…