• Boehmeria clidemioides

    Boehmeria clidemioides Miq., Pl. Jungh. 34 1851. (Syn: Boehmeria clidemioides var. cinerascens (Hook. fil.) H. Hara; Boehmeria clidemioides var. platyphylloides T. Yahara; Boehmeria platyphylla var. cinerascens Hook. fil.; Boehmeria platyphylla var. clidemioides (Miq.) Wedd.; Boehmeria sidifolia Wedd.; Ramium sedifolium (Wedd.) Kuntze); . China (NW-Guangxi, Yunnan), SE-Tibet, Bhutan, NE-India, Laos, Myanmar [Burma], Nepal,…

  • Smythea

    Smythea bombaiensis (Dalz.) Banerjee & P. K. Mukherjee (India (Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala) as per Catalogue of life)           . Revision of Smythia (Rhamnaceae) : 3 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1)- 6 Mb.  A synopsis of the genus Smythea (Rhamnaceae) – Daniel Cahen & Timothy M. A. Utteridge- Kew Bulletin…

  • Curcuma species- Java, Indonesia

    Zingiberaceae of Java : 5 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2) My friend need your help to identify the following plant please.  It is Curcuma species Is it Curcuma phaeocaulis or C. mangga or something else?  

  • Aspilia africana (Kenya)

    Aspilia africana (Pers.) C.D.Adams, Webbia 12: 236 (1956) (syn: Aspilia africana var. ambigua C.D.Adams ; Aspilia africana var. guineensis C.D.Adams ; Aspilia africana var. minor C.D.Adams ; Aspilia guineensis O.Hoffm. & Muschl. ; Aspilia helianthoides var. papposa O.Hoffm. & Muschl. ; Aspilia latifolia Oliv. & Hiern ; Coronocarpus helianthoides Benth. ; Wedelia africana var. ambigua (C.D.Adams) Isawumi ; Wedelia africana var. guineensis (O.Hoffm. & Muschl.) Isawumi ; Wedelia africana var. minor (C.D.Adams) Isawumi ;…

  • Macrosphyra longistyla (Cultivated)

    Macrosphyra longistyla (DC.) Hiern, Fl. Trop. Afr. 3: 106 1877. (syn: Gardenia longistyla (DC.) Hook.; Gardenia paleacea A.Rich.; Macrosphyra paleacea (A.Rich.) K.Schum.; Oxyanthus villosus G.Don; Randia longistyla DC.; Solena longistyla (DC.) D.Dietr.); . W. Tropical Africa to SW. Ethiopia: Benin, Burkina, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea,…

  • Macrosphyra

    Macrosphyra longistyla (DC.) Hiern (Cultivated) (W. Tropical Africa to SW. Ethiopia: Benin, Burkina, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, Uganda, Zaïre as per POWO)  

  • Onosma hypoleucum

    Onosma hypoleucum I.M. Johnst., J. Arnold Arbor. 32(3): 220–221 1951.; . Plant for ID ABJUL01/38 : 23 posts by 5 authors. 2 images. I found this high on a slope with no access and could not get a close up of the flowers. There were several plants lower but without…

  • Arabis amplexicaulis ?

    .  Arabis for id from Chakrata:: NS June 24 : 6 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (4). This small herb was shot from Chakrata area this year.. Wanted to know which species of Arabis ? (or any other genus) this can be.. Seems to be Arabidopsis thaliana efi page on…

  • Hypericum himalaicum

    Hypericum himalaicum N.Robson, J. Jap. Bot. 52: 287 1977. (syn: Hypericum monanthemum var. brachypetalum Franch.; Hypericum pallens D. Don; Hypericum setosum Wall.); . India: Himalayas from 912 to 3500 m. Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Sikkim and West Bengal (Darjeeling); Nepal and Bhutan as per BSI Flora of…

  • Strobilanthes lamiifolia

    Strobilanthes lamiifolia (Nees) T. Anderson, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 9: 476 1867. (Syn: Goldfussia lamiifolia Nees (unresolved); Goldfussia rotundifolia (D. Don) Bremek.; Ruellia rotundifolia D. Don; Strobilanthes austinii C.B. Clarke ex W.W. Sm.; Strobilanthes feddei H. Lév.; Strobilanthes hancockii C.B. Clarke ex W.W. Sm.; Strobilanthes mahongensis H. Lév.); Bhutan, China, India,…

  • Liparis deflexa

    Liparis deflexa Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 697 1890. (syn: Leptorchis deflexa (Hook. f.) Kuntze; Leptorkis deflexa (Hook.f.) Kuntze; Liparis flavoviridis Blatt. & McCann; Liparis prazeri King & Pantl.); . India, Himalaya to Indo-China: Assam, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO; . Common…

  • Lysimachia deltoidea

    Lysimachia deltoidea Wight, Ill. Ind. Bot. 2: 137, pl. 144 1850. (syn: Lysimachia ferruginea Edgew.; Lysimachia grisea Knuth; Lysimachia japonica Thw.; Lysimachia metziana Hohen. ex Hook. fil.; Lysimachia metziana Hohen. ex Knuth; Lysimachia umbrosa Gardn. ex Thw.); . NE-India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar [Burma] (Kachin, Sagaing), Bhutan, Assam, Darjeeling, Nepal as…

  • Murdannia divergens

    Murdannia divergens (C.B.Clarke) G.Brückn., Pflanzenfam. ed. 2 15a: 173 1930. (Syn: Aneilema divergens (C.B.Clarke) C.B.Clarke; Aneilema herbaceum var. divergens C.B.Clarke; Aneilema herbaceum var. viscidum C.B.Clarke; Aneilema scapiflorum Hook.f. & Thomson ex C.B.Clarke [Invalid]; Commelina wallichiana Steud.; Murdannia divergens var. dilatata Hand.-Mazz.; Phaeneilema divergens (C.B.Clarke) G.Brückn.); . Nepal to S. China…

  • Habenaria arietina

    Habenaria arietina Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 138 1890. (syn: Habenaria ensifolia var. gigantea (Pradhan) P.K.Sarkar; Habenaria ensifolia var. khasiensis (Pradhan) P.K.Sarkar; Habenaria intermedia var. arietina (Hook.f.) Finet; Habenaria pectinata var. arietina (Hook.f.) Kraenzl.; Habenaria pectinata var. gigantea Pradhan; Habenaria pectinata var. khasiensis Pradhan; Ochyrorchis arietina (Hook.f.) Szlach.); . Himalaya…

  • Dichrocephala chrysanthemifolia

    Dichrocephala chrysanthemifolia (Blume) DC., Archives de Botanique 2: 518 1833. (Syn: Cotula chrysanthemifolia Blume; Cotula chrysanthemifolia Blume; Dichrocephala abyssinica Sch.Bip. ex A.Rich.; Dichrocephala chrysanthemifolia var. abyssinica (A.Rich.) Asch.; Dichrocephala chrysanthemifolia f. chrysanthemifolia ; Dichrocephala chrysanthemifolia var. chrysanthemifolia ; Dichrocephala chrysanthemifolia f. macrocephala Asch.; Dichrocephala grangeaefolia DC.; Dichrocephala macrocephala Sch.Bip. ex…

  • Ladakh- Nubra Valley plant

    SK53JUL26-2016:ID : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2) Enclosing some pictures for identification. Location : Nubra Valley Altitude: 10300 ft. Date:  22 August 2014 Another which I cannot place at this time.  Seems distinctive enough.  Asteraceae ?? Close to Carpesium sp. ? I think looks different from Carpesium Do you think…

  • Thalictrum virgatum

    Thalictrum virgatum Hook. fil. & Thomson, Fl. Ind. 1: 14 1855. (Syn: Thalictrum englerianum Ulbr.; Thalictrum macrostigma Herb. Kew. ex Lecoy.; Thalictrum verticillatum H. Lév.; Thalictrum virgatum var. stipitatum Franch.); . Himalaya to China (Sichuan, Yunnan) and Assam: Assam, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Nepal, Tibet as per POWO; . Nepal, Bhutan,…

  • Stellera chamaejasme

    Stellera chamaejasme L., Sp. Pl. 1: 559 1753. (Syn: Chamaejasme stelleriana Kuntze; Daphne hypericifolia Wall.; Daphne meisneriana J. J. Halda; Daphne oppositifolia Buch.-Ham. ex Meissn.; Daphne sericea D. Don; Daphne virgata Wall.; Diplomorpha virgata Wall. ex C. A. Mey.; Passerina chamaedaphne Bunge; Passerina chamaejasme (L.) Fisch. ex Meissn.; Passerina concinna…

  • Stellera

    Stellera chamaejasme L. (S. Siberia to Korea and Himalaya: Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, China South-Central, Chita, East Himalaya, Inner Mongolia, Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, Nepal, Qinghai, Tibet, Xinjiang as per POWO)   . Species with description from Flora of Pakistan (Distribution): Stellera lessertii (Wikstr.) C.A. Mey. (Europe, Caucasus, Mesopotamia, C. Asia, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, W. Pakistan and Kashmir) ….

  • Schisandra propinqua

    Schisandra propinqua (Wall.) Baill., Hist. Pl. 1: 148 1868. (syn: Kadsura propinqua Wall.; Schisandra propinqua subsp. propinqua ; Schisandra propinqua var. propinqua ; Sphaerostema propinquum (Wall.) Blume); . Himalaya to C. & S. China, Jawa to Bali (as per WCSP) . Schisandra species are apparently dioecious plants in which male…