• Amomum cannicarpum

    Amomum cannicarpum (Wight) Benth. ex Baker, Fl. Brit. India 6: 240 1892. (Syn: Cardamomum cannicarpum (Wight) Kuntze; Elettaria cannicarpa Wight); . SW. India as per POWO (Meistera cannicarpa (Wight) Škorničk. & M.F.Newman); . Common name: Canna-Fruit Cardamom . Leafy stem 2-3 m high, erect, straight, loosely clumped; rootstock horizontal, much branched,…

  • Sacciolepis interrupta

    Sacciolepis interrupta (Willd.) Stapf, Fl. Trop. Afr. 9: 757 1920. (Syn: Hymenachne interrupta (Willd.) Buse; Panicum interruptum Willd.; Panicum inundatum Kunth [Illegitimate]; Panicum roxburghianum Schult. [Illegitimate]; Panicum turritum Thunb. [Invalid]; Panicum uliginosum Roth; Sacciolepis mukuku Vanderyst [Invalid]; Sacciolepis simaoensis Y.Y.Qian); . Guinea-Bissau, Chad, Tanzania to Botswana, China (Yunnan) to Tropical…

  • Bolboschoenus maritimus subsp. affinis

    Bolboschoenus maritimus subsp. affinis (Roth) T.Koyama, Brittonia 31: 284 1979. (syn: Bolboschoenus affinis (Roth) Drobow; Bolboschoenus maritimus var. affinis (Roth) Parmar; Bolboschoenus popovii T.V.Egorova; Bolboschoenus strobilinus (Roxb.) V.I.Krecz.; Scirpus affinis Roth; Scirpus maritimus subsp. affinis (Roth) Norl.; Scirpus strobilinus Roxb.; Scirpus tuberosus subsp. affinis (Roth) M.R.Almeida Scirpus vulpinicolor T.Koyama); . Bolboschoenus maritimus is an almost cosmopolitan species (Cook 1996)…

  • Bolboschoenus

    Bolboschoenus maritimus (L.) Palla Bolboschoenus species?- Surkhet, West Nepal     

  • Stylosanthes scabra

    Stylosanthes scabra Vogel (Syn: Stylosanthes diartha S.F.Blake; Stylosanthes gloiodes S.F.Blake; Stylosanthes plicata S.F.Blake); . sty-lo-SAN-theez — Greek: stylos (having styles); anthos (flowers) … Dave’s Botanary SKAY-bruh or SKAB-ruh — rough … Dave’s Botanary . commonly known as: shrubby stylo • Hindi: खड़ कलमफूल khar kalamphool • Kannada: ಒರಟು ಕಡ್ಡಿಹೂವು oratu kaddihoovu • Malayalam: നിലത്തുവര nilathuvara • Marathi: उग्र कलमफूल ugra kalamphool • Tamil: சொர சொர…

  • Strobilanthes angustifrons

    Strobilanthes angustifrons C.B.Clarke, Fl. Brit. India 4: 466 1884. (syn: Goldfussia acuminata Shakya; Goldfussia edgeworthiana Nees; Pteracanthus angustifrons (C.B.Clarke) Bremek. (Unresolved)); . Plants of Uttarakhand – NSD 1- Strobilanthes glutinosus for validation: 2 images. this plant is from Chamoli, Uttarakhand. Pic taken on 25/11/2022. I think this is Strobilanthes glutinosus but…

  • Delphinium densiflorum

    Delphinium densiflorum Duthie ex Huth, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 20: 393 1895. (syn: Delphinium brunonianum var. densum Maxim.); . W. & Central Himalaya to China (C. Gansu): China North-Central, Nepal, Qinghai, West Himalaya as per POWO; . Delphinium densiflorum (Ranunculaceae) from Uttarakhand: Sep. 2014_DSR_2 : 4 posts by 4 authors. Attachments…

  • 3. Subject/ Area Experts

    Subject/ Area Experts: . Dr. Manoj Chandran (Poaceae) Dr. M. Sabu (Zingiberaceae, Marantaceae & Musaceae) Dr. N.P. Balakishnan (Euphorbiaceae) Dr. Chris Fraser-Jenkins (Pteridophytes) Dr. V P Prasad (Cyperaceae) Dr. Mayur Nandikar (Commelinaceae) Dr. Wojciech Adamowski (Impatiens) Dr. Anil Kumar (Poaceae) Dr. V. Sampath Kumar (Lamiaceae) Dr. Pascal Bruggeman (Arisaema) Dr….

  • Senecio neelgherryanus

    Senecio neelgherryanus DC., “in Wight, Contrib. 23.” 1834. ; Images by Anurag Sharma (ID by P. Santhan), Inserted by Gurcharan Singh (Please click link to see details)     Herbs, greenish white, perennial, stout, villous; stems 30-50 cm high, terete. Leaves greyish green, oblong to lanceolate, obtuse, serrate, 7-12.5 x…

  • Osbeckia octandra

    Osbeckia octandra DC.; . Common name: Eight Stamen Osbeckia • Sanskrit: Heen bowitiya .   HAL 7 16/11/14 : 9 posts by 5 authors. Attachments (1) Please ID this ornamental plant with pink flowers. Photo was taken in Sri Lanka in Mar 2013 It looks like Melastoma malabathricum efi page…

  • Arenga species- Bot. Garden, Kolkata

    IBG today : Arecaceae : unknown11 : 7 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (7). This has glaucous abaxial. The last pic is of an unknown small snail, I think. It is not glaucous but silvery – Arenga engleri Becc.? Without details of inflorescences/fruits this is not straightforward. If as you…

  • Andrographis producta

    Andrographis producta (C.B.Clarke) Gamble, Fl. Madras 1049 1924. (Syn: Andrographis neesiana var. producta C.B.Clarke); . Erect subshrubs, 1.2-1.5 m high. Leaves opposite, 4-14 x 1.5-5 cm, elliptic, lanceolate, attenuate at base, acute at apex, glabrous; lateral nerves 4-10 pairs; petioles 3-6 mm long. Flowers in paniculate axillary or terminal racemes;…

  • Onychium

    Onychium cryptogrammoides Christ (Pakistan to China and Indo-China: China North-Central, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, Tibet, West Himalaya as per POWO) Onychium tenuifrons Ching (E. Himalaya to China (W. Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan): China South-Central, East Himalaya as per POWO)    

  • M Sharfuddin Khan

    Fwd: About M Sharfuddin Khan : 1 post by 1 author. Who is M Sharfuddin Khan? I am finding lot of litrature from him on net like given in the link: http://forest.ap.nic.in/ForestFloraofAndhraPradesh.htm Do you have his e-mail Id or tel. no.? Mr. M.S. Khan was Silviculturist in erstwhile Hyderabad Govt….

  • Hedychium ellipticum

    Hedychium ellipticum Buch.-Ham. ex Sm., Cycl. 16: 2 1811. (Syn: Gandasulium ellipticum (Buch.-Ham. ex Sm.) Kuntze; Hedychium fastigiatum Voigt [Illegitimate]); . Himalaya to Indo-China: Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO; .  Arecaceae, Araceae, Zingiberaceae Fortnight 1-14 Aug 2014: Hedychium ellipticum (Zingiberaceae) for validation…

  • Aeschynanthus parasiticus

    Aeschynanthus parasiticus (Roxb.) Wall., Numer. List 796 1829. (syn: Aeschynanthus andamanensis Goel, M.K.V.Rao & Mehrotra; Aeschynanthus deleiensis C.E.C.Fisch.; Aeschynanthus grandiflorus (D.Don) Spreng. [Illegitimate]; Aeschynanthus grandiflorus var. parasiticus (Roxb.) C.B.Clarke; Aeschynanthus macranthus (Merr.) Pellegr.; Aeschynanthus mimetes B.L.Burtt; Aeschynanthus pachytrichus W.T.Wang; Incarvillea parasitica Roxb.; Trichosporum grandiflorum D.Don [Illegitimate]; Trichosporum macranthum Merr.); ….

  • Cycas darshii

    Cycas darshii RCSrivast. & B Jana sp. nova, Indian Journal of Plant Sciences 2014 Vol.3 (2) April -June; . IBG today : Cycas sp. 02 : 7 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (9). It is possible that I am posting the same species in several threads. Because they were scattered…

  • Cycas edentata (Cultivated)

    Cycas edentata de Laub., Blumea 43: 373 1998. (Syn: Cycas circinalis f. maritima J.Schust.; Cycas litoralis K.D.Hill); . This species is widespread and locally common in much of southeast Asia. Subpopulations are found in Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam. This species occurs only along shorelines, in full…

  • Arisaema tortuosum var. neglectum

    Arisaema tortuosum var. neglectum (Schott) Fisch., Fl. Madras 1585 1931. (Syn: Arisaema neglectum Schott); . AAZ Fortnight :: Araceae :: SMP1 : Arisaema tortuosum Near Pune : 4 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (6)- 5 correct images as above. Arisaema tortuosum I think not A. tortuosum First image is Arisaema…

  • Ceriscoides turgida ?

    Fwd: Randia wallichii ? from Assam : 2 posts by 1 author. Attachments (3). Kindly see if these plants could be identified. To me appears some what close to images at Ceriscoides turgida (Roxb.) Tirveng.