• Threatened Taxa of Telangana State

    Fwd: Request for sharing photographs to be used in Threatened Taxa of Telangana State : 3 posts by 1 author. Season’s Greetings. Hope you are fine. While thanking you for earlier help extended to us during the COP11 in 2012 with sharing some of the wonderful photographs of plants and…

  • Sarcochlamys pulcherrima

    Sarcochlamys pulcherrima Gaudich., Voy. Bonite, Bot. , pl. 89 1829. (syn: Sphaerotylos medogensis C.J. Chen; Urtica pulcherrima Roxb.); . E. Himalaya to China (NW. Yunnan) and Indo-China: Assam, Bangladesh, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Thailand, Tibet as per POWO; . SE-Tibet, China (NW-Yunnan), Malaysia, Bhutan, NE-India (Assam), Thailand, Myanmar [Burma]…

  • Didymocarpus villosus

    Didymocarpus villosus D.Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 123 1825. (syn: Henckelia villosa (D. Don) Spreng.; Roettlera villosa (D. Don) Kuntze); SK683 28 JUL-2017:ID : 8 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (8) Location: Shivapuri National Park, Nepal Altitude:6000 ft. Date: 22 July 2017 Didymocarpus pulcher C. B. Clarke   ???? Beautiful images. I think…

  • Tricyrtis maculata

    Tricyrtis maculata (D.Don) J.F.Macbr., Contr. Gray Herb. 53: 5 1918. (syn: Compsanthus maculatus (D.Don) Spreng.; Compsoa maculata D.Don; Corchorus polygonatum H.Lév.; Disporum esquirolii H.Lév.; Tricyrtis elegans Wall. [Invalid]; Tricyrtis esquirolii (H.Lév.) H.Hara; Tricyrtis pilosa Wall.); . Nepal to S. China as per WCSP; / SK682 28 JUL-2017:ID : 9 posts…

  • Schima wallichii var. khasiana

    Schima wallichii var. khasiana (Dyer) Bloem. (syn: Gordonia superba Hook. fil. & Thoms. ex Dyer; Schima forrestii Airy-Shaw; Schima khasiana Dyer); . China (Yunnan), SE-Tibet, N-Vietnam, Bhutan, Myanmar [Burma] (Kachin, Sagaing, Shan), India (Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya) as per Catalogue of Life; . Common name: Khasi Schima . Plants from Northeast…

  • Benkara

    Benkara fasciculata (Roxb.) Ridsdale (Central Himalaya to Philippines: Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, East Himalaya, Malaya, Nepal, Philippines, Vietnam as per POWO)         Benkara griffithii (Hook.f.) Ridsdale (E. Himalaya to S. Central China: Assam, China South-Central, East Himalaya as per POWO)     Benkara malabarica (Lam.) Tirveng. (S. India, Sri Lanka as per WCSP)     . BSI Flora of India Checklist (Distribution): Benkara fasciculata (Roxb.)…

  • Zingiber species- Dilkhan, Mizoram

    MS July, 2017/03 for ID : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2) Location : Dilkhan, Mizoram Date : 13-07-2017 Habit : Herb Habitat : Wild Flowers not clear Do you have better images clearly showing the flowers as requested by … ? Zingiber mizoramensis ?? Flowers required

  • Sonchus wightianus ?

    Sonchus wightianus ?; . Asteraceae For ID : Nasik : 24FEB16 : AK-09 : 09/09 : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) Asteraceae weed found growing wild on 29th Dec,2015. Kindly help in id. If you have any other pictures, pl. post. Unfortunately I have only this picture. Sonchus oleraceous ?? Thanks for…

  • Selaginella species- Soureni, Mirik, West Bengal

    SK644 13 JUL-2017:ID : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3) Location: Soureni, Mirik, India Date: 20 May 2017 Altitude: 4200 ft.  The same inadequate photos of a useless specimen of a juvenile Selaginella since, as I said, it is sterile. I could only give a guess, which I did, and anyone…

  • Herminium fallax

    Herminium fallax (Lindl.) Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 129 (1890) as per POWO; . Peristylus fallax Lindl., Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl. 298 1835. (syn: Habenaria fallax (Lindl.) King & Pantl.; Herminium fallax (Lindl.) Hook.f.; Monorchis fallax (Lindl.) O.Schwarz; Peristylus fallax var. dwarikae Deva & H.B.Naithani; Platanthera fallax (Lindl.) Schltr.); ….

  • Hypericum species- Soureni, Mirik,West Bengal

              SK626 07 JUL-2017:ID : 9 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (6) Location: Soureni, Mirik, India Date: 19 May 2017 Altitude: 4000 ft.  Hypericum cordifolium Choisy  ??? I am unable to recall the name. Pl. Check comparative images at efi site. Could not decide. Could someone help ?…

  • Impatiens drepanophora

    Impatiens drepanophora Hook.f., Rec. Bot. Surv. India 4: 17 1905. ; . Nepal, Sikkim, Myanmar [Burma], Bhutan, Darjeeling, NE-India (Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya, Assam), Tibet (Medou, Pamo), China (Yunnan) as per Catalogue of Life; . Fwd: Impatiens for identification. I.chapaensis? Arunachal Pradesh 25.5.17 : 5 posts by 2 authors….

  • Didymocarpus cinereus

    Didymocarpus cinereus D.Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 122 1825. (Syn: Didymocarpus obtusus Wall.; Henckelia cinerea (D. Don) Spreng.; Roettlera cinerea (D. Don) Kuntze); . SK49JUL25-2016:ID : 6 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (5) Enclosing some pictures for identification. Begonia spp?? Location : Sundarijal Nepal Altitude: 6000 ft. Date:  24 July, 2016 Yes…

  • Clematis tibetana

    Clematis tibetana Kuntze, Verh. Bot. Vereins Prov. Brandenburg 26: 172 1885. ; . W. China to W. & Central Himalaya: Nepal, Pakistan, Tibet, West Himalaya, Xinjiang as per POWO; . Clematis tibetana Kuntze: 5 very high res. images. Location: Dunai, Dolpa,  Nepal Altitude:  2000m. Date: 20 June 1022 Habit : Wild . SK601…

  • Helminthostachys zeylanica

    Helminthostachys zeylanica (L.) Hook., Gen. Fil. , pl. 47, B 1840. (Syn: Botrychium zeylanicum (L.) Sw.; Botryopteris crenata Presl; Botryopteris mexicana Presl; Helminthostachys crenata Presl; Helminthostachys dulcis Kaulf.; Helminthostachys integrifolia Presl; Helminthostachys laciniata J. Voigt; Helminthostachys mexicana (Presl) Spreng.; Helminthostachys zeylanica var. brachyspicae Nampy & Madhus.; Ophiala zeylanica (L.) Desv.;…

  • Helminthostachys

    Helminthostachys zeylanica (L.) Hook. (Tropical & Subtropical Asia to W. Pacific: Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, Caroline Is., China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Marianas, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Northern Territory, Philippines, Queensland, Santa Cruz Is., Solomon Is.,…

  • Piper betleoides

    Piper betleoides C.DC., Candollea 1: 186 1923. (syn: Piper betleoides var. glabrifolium C. DC.); . Bhutan, Sikkim, India (Darjeeling) as per Catalogue of Life; . Climbing shrub, stems weakly striate when dry, glabrous or minutely puberulous. Leaves membranous, lower ones broadly ovate-cordate, upper ones ovate to ovate lanceolate, 9-17 x…

  • Fimbristylis argentea

    Fimbristylis argentea (Rottb.) Vahl, Enum. Pl. Obs. 2: 294 1805. (syn: Aplostemon triquetrum Raf.; Fimbristylis monandra (Rottb.) F.Muell.; Iria monandra (Rottb.) Kuntze; Iria muelleriana Kuntze; Scirpus argenteus Rottb.; Scirpus monander Rottb.; Scirpus nanus Poir.); . Annuals, 5-10 cm tall; culms tufted, compressed, trigonous, glabrous. Leaves basal, 3-10 x 0.1 cm,…

  • Eurya cerasifolia

    Eurya cerasifolia (D.Don) Kobuski, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 25: 3226 1938 publ. 1937. (syn: Diospyros cerasifolia D. Don; Eurya acuminata Wall.; Eurya acuminata var. wallichiana Dyer; Eurya symplocina Bl.; Eurya wallichiana Planch. ex Dyer); . India (West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya), Sikkim, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar [Burma] (Chin,…

  • Globba species- Assam

    Globba sp. from Assam KD 05 2017 : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (3) Attached images are Globba sp. Please ID the sp. Date : 25.06.2017 Location: Assam Family : Zingiberaceae Genus & species : Globba sp. Habitat: Grows wild on dense forest Habit : Herb     I hope this can…