• Cattleya hybrid- Kodikkanal, Tamil Nadu

    efloraindia: 301111 BRS221: Pl. find the attached file contain photos for id. request. Location:Kodikkanal Date: 2006 from a House garden. Cattleya hybrid.

  • Spathoglottis hybrids- Lalbagh, Bangalore

      Orchid for ID : Lalbagh Botanical Garden Nursery, Bangalore : 28OCT20 : AK-50 : 5 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1) A cultivated Orchid seen at the nursery. Spathoglottis Species? This is a hybrid of Spathoglottis.

  • Cleistocactus species ?- Bangalore, Karnataka

      Cactus for ID : Lalbagh Botanical Garden Nursery, Bangalore : 17OCT20 : AK-27 : 8 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) A potted Cactus seen at the nursery. Pl. check comparative images at Cactaceae Some Echinocereus Species? I think some Cleistocactus as per comparative images at Cactaceae

  • Taxus baccata (UK/ USA)

    Taxus baccata L., Sp. Pl. 1040 1753. (Syn: Cephalotaxus adpressa Beissn.; Cephalotaxus brevifolia Beissn.; Cephalotaxus tardiva Siebold ex Endl.; Taxus adpressa Carrière; Taxus aurea K.Koch; Taxus baccata var. adpressa-aurea A.Henry ……………………….; Taxus baccifera Theophr. ex Bubani; Taxus columnaris K.Koch; Taxus communis J. Nelson [Illegitimate] ..; Taxus disticha Wender. ex Henkel & Hochst. [Invalid]; Taxus dovastonii Carrière [Invalid]; Taxus elvastonensis Beissn.;                                                     …

  • Cymbidium hybrids- Muscat, Oman

      Cultivated Orchid for ID : 30OCT20 : AK-56 : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1) A cultivated Orchid seen at a flower shop, probably in Muscat Should be a hybrid of Cymbidium.

  • Gesneriaceae member ?- Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

      SK 2809 25 October 2020 : 12 posts by 2 authors. 2 images- 6 mb each. Location: Kathmandu Valley Date:  October 2020  Elevation: 2400m. Habitat  : Wild Any chance for Gentianaceae Probably not. Sorry, I meant to say any chance of Gesneriaceae ? I do not think this is Gesneriacece. Any clue about the family…

  • Zingiber neotruncatum ?

    Zingiberaceae plant for Id : 5 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2) Please identify this Zingiberaceae plant from Pelhar Dam, Maharashtra, Aug -15. Is it Elettaria cardammum? Thanks, … But does not match with images of Elettaria cardamomum Do you have other images ? If so pl. post. Definitely a Zingiber sp. What are the species listed in Maharashra? Slightly…

  • Recent Approaches in Plant Biology: Paving the Way for Green Agriculture

      An International Webinar on 3,4 Dec. 2020 : 1 attachment- brouchre Our department is organizing an international webinar on the theme “ Recent Approaches in Plant Biology: Paving the Way for Green Agriculture”. If you feel it appropriate, the flyer (attached here) of this webinar may please be posted in the…

  • Amomum koenigii ?

      Amomum koenigii ?;   MSJune,2015/04 Zingiberaceae : 6 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (1) Location : Ex-Tleu, Mizoram Date : 25-06-2015 Habit : Herb Habitat : Wild To me it is a cultivar of Elettaria cardamomum Found wild in the forest It grows wild in the forest, not cultivated. Pl. check again. It is not E.cardamomum Amomum koenigii J.F.Gmel….

  • Hydrocotyle prolifera (Introduced)

      Hydrocotyle prolifera Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 15 1854. (syn: Hydrocotyle australis Coult. & Rose; Hydrocotyle canbyi Coult. & Rose; Hydrocotyle polystachya var. triradiata A. Rich.; Hydrocotyle verticillata var. triradiata (A. Rich.) Fern.); USA (Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, District of Columbia, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Jersey, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia), Cuba as per Catalogue of life;…

  • Psychotria erratica

    Psychotria erratica Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 168 1880. (syn: Uragoga erratica (Hook.f.) Kuntze); . Nepal to China (Yunnan): Assam, Bangladesh, China South-Central, East Himalaya, India, Nepal, Tibet as per POWO; . Shrubs, up to 1.25 m tall; stems glabrous. Leaves simple, opposite decussate; stipules ca. 0.5 cm, 2-fid, cuspidate, ciliate; petioles ca. 0.5-2.2 cm long, slender; lamina ca. 5-16 x…

  • Spiraea species- Europe

      Rosaceae Fortnight-PC-17-03.09.2015 : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3) Probably a spirea. please identify/correct me. Spiraea sp. ??? Yes, Spiraea as also suggested by …

  • Melanoseris decipiens var. multifida

    Melanoseris decipiens var. multifida (Hook. fil.) Ghafoor, Qaiser & Roohi Bano, Pakistan J. Bot. 49: 1325 (2017) (syn: Cicerbita decipiens var. multifida (Hook.f.) Roohi Bano & Qaiser; Lactuca decipiens var. multifida Hook.f.); . Afghanistan to Nepal: Afghanistan, Nepal, West Himalaya as per POWO; . . References: POWO  Catalogue of Life (Melanoseris decipiens (C. B. Cl.) N. Kilian & Ze…

  • Cotoneaster dammeri (Slovakia) ?

      Cotoneaster dammeri C.K.Schneid., Ill. Handb. Laubholzk. 1: 761 (1906) (syn: Cotoneaster dammeri var. radicans Dammer ex C.K.Schneid.; Cotoneaster dammeri var. songmingensis C.Y.Wu & L.H.Zhou; Cotoneaster humifusus Duthie ex J.H.Veitch; Cotoneaster kweitschoviensis G.Klotz; Cotoneaster radicans (Dammer ex C.K.Schneid.) G.Klotz; Pyrus dammeri (C.K.Schneid.) M.F.Fay & Christenh.; Pyrus kweitschoviensis (G.Klotz) M.F.Fay & Christenh.; Pyrus radicans (Dammer ex C.K.Schneid.) M.F.Fay & Christenh.); Native to: China North-Central, China South-Central, Tibet; Introduced into: Austria, British Columbia, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, New…

  • Barringtonia species- Thailand

      ID request28112017CP1 : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2)- 1 MB each. Kindly identify this tree growing in Thailand. Barringtonia as per … in another thread: Myrtaceae Thank you … Would you know the species? Check with Barringtonia acutangula Looks different from Barringtonia acutangula Resembles Barringtonia acutangula. … probably is right. Could it be Barringtonia racemosa?

  • Verbascum phoeniceum (Cultivated- Oman)

    Verbascum phoeniceum L., Sp. Pl. 178 1753. (syn: Celsia rechingeri Murb.; Thapsus pheniceum (L.) Raf.; Verbascum cisalpinum Biroli; Verbascum collinum Salisb.; Verbascum cupreum Sims; Verbascum ferrugineum Andr.; Verbascum plantaginifolium Schur; Verbascum puniceum Schrad.; Verbascum triste Sibth. & Sm.); Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Serbia & Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Hercegovina, Poland, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, C- & E-European Russia, Ukraine, Crimea, Netherlands (I),…

  • Vicoa cernua

    Vicoa cernua Dalz., Bombay Fl.: 126 (1861) (syn:  Inula cernua (Dalzell) R.R.Stewart ; Inula dalzellii Hand.-Mazz. ; Jacobaea cernua (Dalzell) Kuntze ; Pentanema cernuum (Dalzell) Y.Ling ; Vicoa gokhalei Gosavi, Madhav, Chandore & S.R.Yadav); . Indian Subcontinent to China (Yunnan) and N. Thailand: China South-Central, East Himalaya, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand as per POWO; .  Asteraceae…

  • Gymnopus species?- Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

    SK 2805 23 October 2020 – Mycophyta : 9 posts by 3 authors. 2 images- 6 mb each. Location: Kathmandu Valley Date:  October 2020  Elevation: 2400m. Habit : Wild Pl. check comparative images at Order Agaricales Gymnopus/Marasmiellus Gymnopus sp (Omphalotaceae) Close to Gymnopus peronatus (Bolton) Gray or G. dryophilus (Bull.) Murrill Difficult to say as per Gymnopus dryophilus (Bull.) Murrill and…

  • Cayratia pedata ?

    Cayratia pedata ?; . Pedate leafed Climber: A climber with red stem. Leaves pedate. Mt Slamet west slope 2000 m alt. ID is requested.  A species from Vitaceae family, I guess. Cayratia pedata Gagnep. Thanks, …, for the suggestion as Cayratia pedata It may be something similar as it does not have distribution in Indonesia Cayratia pedata (Lam.) Gagnep….

  • Taraxacum candidatum

    Taraxacum candidatum Kirschner, Štěpánek & Klimeš, “Preslia 78(1): 36 (31, 37-38, 41, 60; figs. 4, 13c)” 2006; . Afghanistan to S. Xinjiang and W. Himalaya: Afghanistan, Tadzhikistan, Tibet, West Himalaya, Xinjiang as per POWO; . Common name: White Himalayan Dandelion . Request for ID: 11092014 NS02 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (1). Date/Time- August 2014 Location- Place, Altitude, GPS- Spiti Valley,…