• Rheum species- California, USA

    Polygonaceae Fortnight: Rheum sp for ID from Tahoe lake area from California-GSMAY64 : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (3). Rheum sp., cultivated in private houses in Tahoe area, not sure whether it is R. rhabarbarum (as it lacks long red petioles) or some other species. Please help in ID…

  • Solanum macrocarpon

    Solanum macrocarpon L., Mant. Pl. 2: 205 1771.; . Tropical Africa, Comoros, Madagascar: Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Comoros, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe;…

  • Persicaria hydropiper ?

    Persicaria hydropiper ?; . Persicaria maculosa from Kashmir : Attachments (3). 4 posts by 3 authors. Persicaria maculosa Gray (syn: Polygonum persicaria L.) from Kashmir, growing in wet places. Photographed from Harwan on June 17, 2010. Common names: Lady’s-thumb, Redshank, Spotted lady’s-thumb , Smart weed French: Renouée persicaire Used as…

  • Persicaria decipiens

    Persicaria decipiens (R.Br.) K.L.Wilson, Telopea 3: 178 1988. (syn: Persicaria minor subsp. decipiens (R.Br.) Soják; Persicaria salicifolia (Brouss. ex Willd.) Assenov [Illegitimate]; Persicaria serrulata (Lag.) Webb & Moq.; Polygonum decipiens R.Br.; Polygonum salicifolium Brouss. ex Willd.; Polygonum serrulatoides H.Lindb.; Polygonum serrulatum Lag.); . Tropical & Subtropical Old World to Australasia:…

  • Persicaria sagittata

    Persicaria sagittata (L.) H.Gross, Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 113 1919. (Syn: Helxine sagittatum (L.) Raf.; Persicaria sagittata var. sieboldii (Meisn.) Nakai; Persicaria sieboldii (Meisn.) Ohki; Persicaria sieboldii var. brevifolia Kitag.; Polygonum belophyllum Litv.; Polygonum paludosum (Kom.) Kom.; Polygonum sagittatum L.; Polygonum sagittatum var. boreale Meisn.; Polygonum sagittatum var. gracilentum Fernald;…

  • Gynochthodes

    Gynochthodes ridsdalei Razafim. & B.Bremer ? (S. India as per WCSP) Gynochthodes umbellata (L.) Razafim. & B. Bremer (Andaman Is.; Assam; Bangladesh; Bismarck Archipelago; Borneo; China South-Central; China Southeast; Hainan; India; Japan; Jawa; Malaya; Marianas; Nansei-shoto; New Guinea; Philippines; Queensland; Samoa; Solomon Is.; Sri Lanka; Sumatera; Taiwan; Thailand; Vietnam as per…

  • Oenothera laciniata (Introduced)

    Oenothera laciniata Hill, Hort. Kew. 172/4 1768. (Syn: Oenothera biennis Walter; Oenothera laciniata var. laciniata ; Oenothera longiflora Scheele; Oenothera mexicana Spach; Oenothera minima Pursh; Oenothera sinuata L.; Oenothera viscosa Rafin.; Onagra sinuata (L.) Moench; Raimannia laciniata (Hill) Rose); . USA (Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Delaware, Florida,…

  • Persicaria lanata

    Persicaria lanata (Roxb.) N. N. Tsvelev in Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 25: 186. 1988.  (Syn: Polygonum lanatum Roxb.; Polygonum lanigerum auct. non R. Br.: Meisn.; Polygonum lapathifolium var. lanatum (Roxb.) Steward; Persicaria lapathifolia subsp. lanata (Roxb.) Sojak; Persicaria lapathifolia var. lanata (Roxb.) Hara) as per Flora of Pakistan; . Bulgaria to Caucasus,…

  • Bistorta macrophylla

    Bistorta macrophylla (D.Don) Soják, Preslia 46: 152 1974. (Syn: (=) Bistorta sphaerostachya (Meisn.) Greene; (≡) Polygonum macrophyllum D. Don (basionym); (=) Polygonum sphaerostachyum Meisn.); . Himalaya to Central China and N. Myanmar: Assam, China North-Central, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Tibet, West Himalaya as per POWO; . Common name: Large-Leaf…

  • Polygonum effusum

    Polygonum effusum Meisn., Prodr. 14: 93 1857. ; . Afghanistan to Indian Subcontinent: Afghanistan, Assam, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, West Himalaya as per POWO; .   Polygonaceae Fortnight- Polygonum pleibium from Kaithal:: NS May 32 : 5 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (6). These pics were recorded from Kaithal, I hope they…

  • Pteropyrum scoparium (Oman)

    Pteropyrum scoparium Jaub. & Spach, Ill. Pl. Orient. 2: 10 1844. ; . E. Arabian Peninsula (Hajar Mountains): Gulf States, Oman as per POWO; . Polygonaceae Fortnight : 1 – 14 May 2014 : Pteropyrum scoparium : Jabal Akhdar,Oman : 140514 : AK-18 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments…

  • Pteropyrum

    Species with description & keys from Flora of Pakistan (Distribution): Pteropyrum aucheri Jaubert & Spach (Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan) Pteropyrum olivieri Jaubert & Spach (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Arctic and Subarctic Europe, India, China, Central Asia and N.America)- No distribution in India as per POWO and Checklist of…

  • Psychotria flavida

    Psychotria flavida Talbot, Syst. List Trees Bombay 113 1894. ; . S. India as per WCSP; . Common name: South Indian Wild Coffee • Marathi: Shivan Yallaki . Small shrubs; branchlets terete, glabrous. Leaves 10-18 x 3.5-8 cm, elliptic-oblong or obovate, attenuate at base, acute at apex, glabrous, yellowish green…

  • Ipomoea campanulata

    Ipomoea campanulata L., Sp. Pl. 1: 160 1753. (Syn: Ipomoea illustris (Cl.) Prain; Ipomoea campanulata L. var. illustris Clarke) as per Flora of Davanagere District: Karnataka, India (2004); / Ipomoea campanulata L., Sp. Pl. 1: 160 1753. (syn: Adamboe bicolor Raf.; Argyreia campanulata (L.) Alston; Convolvulus campanulatus (L.) Spreng.; Ipomoea illustris (C.B.Clarke) Prain;…

  • Vallisneria spiralis

    Vallisneria spiralis L., Sp. Pl. 1015 1753. (Syn: Vallisneria aethiopica Fenzl; Vallisneria jacquiniana Spreng.; Vallisneria jacquinii Savi; Vallisneria linnet Bercht. & J.Presl; Vallisneria micheliana Spreng.; Vallisneria michelii Savi; Vallisneria numidica Pomel; Vallisneria pusilla Barbieri ex Bertol.; Vallisneria spiralis f. aethiopica (Fenzl) T.Durand & Schinz; Vallisneria spiralis var. numidica (Pomel) Maire…

  • Pennisetum species- Pune, Maharashtra

      efloraofindia:”For Id” purple colored ornamental grass at Pune :10052014: MR-1 :  3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1). May 2014 Requesting Id of this purple colored ornamnetal grass at Pune. sorry for poor quality of pic.  Pennisetum sp  

  • Smilax species- Canacona Goa

    04052014NVR Shrub for ID from Canacona Goa : 8 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (2). some Smilax sp​ i think Aren’t there 2 plants here? The fruits look like Smilax sp. but the leaves do not. Sorry for the confusion in the photographs (I could’nt get close to the plant.)…

  • Albizia procera ?

    Albizia procera ?; . Requesting ID of this wild shrub – Panshet – May 2014 :: 07MAY2014 :: ARK-06 : 3 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (5). Requesting to please ID this wild shrub growing by the roadside near Panshet dam, Pune in May 2014. it seems miniature of Albizia…

  • Decalepis hamiltonii

    IUCN Red List Status: Endangered (EN) . Decalepis hamiltonii Wight & Arn., Contr. Bot. India 64 1834. (Syn: Apocynum reticulatum Herb. Madras ex Wall. (ambiguous synonym)); . India (SW-Ghats (Karnataka, Tamil Nadu)) as per Catalogue of life; . Decalepis hamiltonii Wight & Arn. is a species of plant in the…

  • Rumex crispus

    Rumex crispus L., Sp. pl. 1:335. 1753 (syn: Lapathum crispum (L.) Scop.; Rumex patientia var. crispus (L.) Kuntze; Lapathum crispum Garsault; Rheum crispum G.Don; Rumex coreanus Nakai; Rumex crispus var. fauriei (Rech.f.) Reveal; Rumex crispus subsp. fauriei (Rech.f.) Mosyakin & W.L.Wagner; Rumex elongatus Guss.; Rumex fauriei Rech.f.; Rumex kunthianus Schult. & Schult.f.; Rumex kunthii Campd.; Rumex lingulatus Schur;…