• Ocimum americanum ?

    Ocimum americanum ?; . Plant ID from Bangladesh SM150 : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2). Habit: Herb Habitat: Wild Location: Bandarban Most probably an Ocimum sp. Supporting …, may be Ocimum americanum L  

  • Dendrobium lindleyi

    Dendrobium lindleyi Steud., Nomencl. Bot. ed. 2, 1: 490 1840. (Syn: Callista aggregata Kuntze; Callista aggregata (Roxb.) Brieger; Dendrobium aggregatum Roxb. [Illegitimate]; Dendrobium aggregatum var. majus Rolfe; Dendrobium alboviride var. majus Rolfe; Dendrobium lindleyi var. majus (Rolfe) S.Y.Hu; Epidendrum aggregatum Roxb. ex Steud.); . E. Himalaya to S. China and…

  • Selaginella species- Valparai, Tamilnadu

    Valparai 28.06.14 TBN for id/ TBN June 05 : 8 posts by 5 authors. Attachments (1). Please identify this ? Fern seen on the roadside at Valparai. The plant is liverwort Trichocolea tomenlilla The poor picture quality does not help in its identification, but it is definitely not a Trichocolea….

  • Primula hybrids- Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir & Panipat, Haryana

    Plumbaginaceae and Primulaceae (incl. Myrsinaceae) Fortnight: Primulaceae-Primula x polyantha cultivar from Kashmir-GSJUN29 : 3 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (3). Primula x polyantha? cultivar with red flowers with yellow center, photographed from Srinagar, Kashmir. it is a hybrid species of primula now identified as P. fever I don’t think P….

  • Cacti at Nasik

        Cactus For ID : Nasik : 060714 : AK-10 : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1). A small, cultivated Cactus at a Cactus Nursery in Nasik. Picture taken on 27/2/14.   Cactus For ID : Nasik : 080714 : AK-14 : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1)….

  • Primula hybrids- California, USA

    Plumbaginaceae and Primulaceae (incl. Myrsinaceae) Fortnight: Primulaceae-Primula vulgaris? yellow cultivar from California-GSJUN32 : Attachments (3). 4 posts by 3 authors. Primula vulgaris? yellow cultivar from California efi page on Primula vulgaris May be Primula auricula A reply from …, Creator of Primula World – A Visual Reference for the Genus…

  • Microsorum punctatum

    Microsorum punctatum (L.) Copel., Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 16(2): 111 1929. (Syn: Acrostichum punctatum L. f.; Acrostichum punctatum L.; Colysis irioides (Poir.) J. Sm.; Drynaria irioides (Poir.) J. Sm.; Drynaria polycarpa Brack.; Microsorum irioides (Poir.) Fée; Microsorum irregulare Link; Microsorum neoguineense (Copel.) Copel.; Microsorum polycarpon (Cav.) Tardieu; Microsorum sessile Fée;…

  • Solanum americanum

    Solanum americanum Mill., Gard. dict. ed. 8: Solanum no. 5. 1768; . Solanum villosum (left), Solanum americanum (middle) & Solanum nigrum (right) (Solanum americanum, solanum nigrum & Solanum villosum– 5 images.) . Annual herb differing from Solanum nigrum in 3-10 flowered cymes, less than 5 mm across, smaller anthers barely 1-1.5 mm…

  • Vitaceae member- Woody climber from Chakrata, Uttarakhand

      25062014GS1 Woody climber for ID from Chakrata-GSJUN06 : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1). Woody climber from Chakrata was lying identified as Cayratia trifolia, but after comparing with my photographs from Delhi this seems to be totally different with leaflets entire along sides, with distinct cuneate base and…

  • Swertia beddomei

    Swertia beddomei C.B.Clarke, Fl. Brit. India 4: 127 1883. ; . Erect herbs, to 60 cm high; branchlets 4-angled and obscurely 4 winged. Leaves opposite-decussate, sessile, 1-3 x 0.8-2 cm, ovate-orbicular, subamplexicaule at base, margins entire, obtuse at apex, 3-5 ribbed, coriaceous. Flowers in densely panicled, flat topped terminal and…

  • Campanula pallida var. tibetica

    Campanula pallida Wall. var. tibetica (Hook. f. & Thomson) H. Hara, J. Jap. Bot. 50:270. 1975 (Syn: (≡) Campanula colorata var. tibetica Hook. f. & Thomson (basionym)); . Common name: Tibetan Pale Bellflower . Campanulaceae & Gentianaceae Week: Campanulaceae-Campanula sp. from Turtuk Ladakh: While going thru my collection of photographs…

  • Canscorinella stricta

    Canscorinella stricta (Sedgwick) Nampy & Shahina (Syn: Canscora stricta Sedgwick; C. devendrae Singh & Diwakar); . Image by Shahina Shanavas, Inserted by Gurcharan Singh (Please click link to see details)   Two species of Canscorinella – C. bhatiana & C. stricta : 2 posts by 2 authors. 1 correct image…

  • Agrostistachys indica

    Agrostistachys indica Dalzell, Hooker’s J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 2: 41 1850. (Syn: Agrostistachys indica var. genuina Müll.Arg. [Invalid]; Agrostistachys indica subsp. longifolia (Müll.Arg.) Pax & K.Hoffm.; Agrostistachys indica var. longifolia Müll.Arg.; Agrostistachys indica var. maesoana (Vidal) Pax & K.Hoffm.; Agrostistachys indica var. subintegra Pax & K.Hoffm.; Agrostistachys longifolia (Müll.Arg.)…

  • Thlaspi species- Kalatope, Chamba

    Kalatope id Al071912 – Thlaspi sp…??: This is one observation.. I had overlooked thinking it to be Thlaspi cochleariforme .. But unfortunately I could not go back to see the fruit… I hope you would be able to help me to id … Location Kalatope Chamba Altitude 2400 mts Habit…

  • Eriophyllum species- San Francisco, USA

      Requesting ID of this plant with yellow flowers on a beach – San Francisco, USA : 05062013 : ARK-01 : 7 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2). Requesting to please ID this plant with yellow flowers captured on a beach in San Francisco, USA in May 2013. A close…

  • Solanum villosum ?

    Solanum villosum ? ;     Sonalum ID from Bangladesh SM120 : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2). Habit: Herb Habitat: Wild Location: Dhaka City Flowering: June Solanum sp…? Could be S. villosum subsp. mineatum but fruits (ripe) are necessary for identification.      Solanaceae Fortnight:: Solanum for id…

  • Alternanthera bettzickiana ?

    Alternanthera bettzickiana ?; . Goa, May 2014 :: Requesting ID of this shrub :: 20JUN14 :: ARK-38 : 5 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (4). Requesting to please ID this shrub from a cultivated garden in Aguada, Goa in May 2014. I think, in gardening terms, it is called ‘bhaaji’…

  • Lepisorus nudus

    Lepisorus nudus (Hook.) Ching, Bull. Fan Mem. Inst. Biol. 4(3): 83 1933. (Syn: Drynaria nuda (Hook.) Fée; Phymatodes nuda (Hook.) J. Sm.; Pleopeltis nuda Hook.; Polypodium nudiusculum Kunze; Polypodium nudum (Hook.) Kunze); . Indian Subcontinent to China (Yunnan) and Indo-China, Sumatera, Japan: Assam, China South-Central, East Himalaya, India, Japan, Myanmar,…

  • Lepisorus

    Lepisorus contortus (Christ) Ching (Indian Subcontinent to China, Taiwan: Assam, Bangladesh, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, West Himalaya as per POWO) Lepisorus microphyllus (C.Presl) ined. (Arunachal Pradesh to Temp. E. Asia: Assam, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Vietnam as per POWO);…