• Efloraofindia website updated upto 31st Sept.’25

    Efloraofindia website updated upto 31st Sept.’25: more than 14,000 species: It’s heartening to reiterate that Efloraofindia is the largest google e-group/ forum in the world in this field & the largest nature related e-group (and the most constructive) in India with around 4,82,700 messages so far & membership currently around 3545 nos. efloraofindia (eFI in short) website is one…

  • Gynochthodes cochinchinensis

    Gynochthodes cochinchinensis (DC.) Razafim. & B.Bremer, Adansonia, sér. 3, 33: 288 (2011) (syn: Morinda cochinchinensis DC.; Morinda trichophylla Merr.); . China (Guangdong) to Indo-China: Cambodia, China Southeast, Hainan, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam as per POWO; . RUBIACEAE: Morinda cochinchinensis!: 2 high res. images. Collected from Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh!  From where in Visakhapatnam ? Wild…

  • Smilax species- Khurda, Odisha

    240925PKD2: Id pls collected from khurda Odisha on Sept 2025: 2 high res. images. Please check https://efloraofindia.com/efi/smilax/ Close to Smilax zeylanica ! Difficult to say without more details. Can be the following also: https://efloraofindia.com/efi/smilax-perfoliata/ https://efloraofindia.com/efi/smilax-ovalifolia/  

  • Cyperus brevifolioides

    Cyperus brevifolioides Thieret & Delahouss., Sida 3: 129 (1967) (syn: Cyperus brevifolius var. gracillimus (Miq.) Kük.; Cyperus brevifolius var. leiolepis (Franch. & Sav.) T.Koyama ; Cyperus brevifolius subsp. leiolepis (Franch. & Sav.) T.Koyama ; Kyllinga brevifolia var. gracillima (Miq.) Kük.; Kyllinga brevifolia var. leiocarpa Kitag. ; Kyllinga brevifolia subsp. leiolepis (Franch. & Sav.) T.Koyama ; Kyllinga brevifolia var. leiolepis (Franch. & Sav.) H.Hara ; Kyllinga brevifolioides (Thieret & Delahouss.) G.C.Tucker ; Kyllinga…

  • Bidens bachulkari ?

    Bidens bachulkari D. G. Jagtap and M. Y. Cholekar, Tropical Plant Research 3(3): 681–685 (2016); . For ID. ?Bidens bachulkari AT Satara, Maharashtra Sept 2025: 2 images. A lot of these roadside flowers spotted @ Dare Budruk, Satara, Maharashtra on Sept 2025 What is Bidens bachulkari ?? Where did you find…

  • Pyrenaria barringtoniifolia

    Pyrenaria barringtoniifolia (Griff.) Seem., Bonplandia (Hannover) 7: 49 (1859) (syn: Eusynaxis barringtoniifolia Griff. ); . E. Himalaya to Bangladesh: Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya as per POWO; . Help identification: 4 images- 3 high res. Kindly help in identification of this plant which has been observed by Mr.Chandralal Gautam at the elevation 670m…

  • Tricholepis glaberrima ?

    . Peth Kothaligad, September 2021 :: Plant for ID :: ARK2022-008: 5 images. This was clicked at Peth Kothaligad hill fort near Karjat, MH in September 2021. I strongly suspect, the leaves of this plant to be very similar to the ones I posted  at Pali near Khopoli, MH :: Vegetable…

  • Cyathodium species- Maharashtra (?)

    Help in identification of this moss liverwort: 2 high res. images. Can some expert identify this bryophyte Liver wort ? Is it Pellia? It is very thalloid and leaves like green scales This is a species of Cyathodium. Cyathodium sp. For correct identification of the species do microphotography of T.S….

  • Miliusa sclerocarpa

    Miliusa sclerocarpa (A.DC.) Kurz, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 41: 291 (1872) (syn: Miliusa longiflora (Hook.f. & Thomson) Baill. ex Finet & Gagnep. ; Saccopetalum longiflorum Hook.f. & Thomson; Saccopetalum sclerocarpum (A.DC.) Hook.f. & Thomson; Uvaria sclerocarpa A.DC.); . Bhutan to Thailand: Bangladesh, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Thailand as per POWO; ….

  • Fraxinus latifolia (USA)

    Fraxinus latifolia Benth., Bot. Voy. Sulphur: 33 (1844) (syn: Fraxinus americana subsp. oregona (Nutt.) Wesm. ; Fraxinus californica Dippel ; Fraxinus oregona Nutt. ; Fraxinus oregona var. glabra Lingelsh. ; Fraxinus oregona var. latifolia (Benth.) Lingelsh.; Fraxinus oregona f. pulverulenta Dieck ex Beissn. ; Fraxinus oregona var. riparia Nutt. ; Fraxinus pennsylvanica subsp. oregona (Nutt.) G.S.Mill.); . SW. Canada (Vancouver Island) to California: British Columbia, California, Oregon, Washington as per…

  • Apocopis paleaceus

    Apocopis paleaceus (Trin.) Hochr., Bull. New York Bot. Gard. 6: 262 (1910) (syn: Andropogon himalayensis Steud. ; Andropogon paleaceus (Trin.) Steud.; Apocopis himalayensis (Steud.) Will.Watson ; Apocopis royleanus Nees ; Ischaemum paleaceum Trin. ); . Himalaya to S. China and Peninsula Malaysia: Assam, Bangladesh, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar,…

  • Muscari botryoides ? (USA)

    Muscari botryoides (L.) Mill., in Gard. Dict., ed. 8.: n.° 1 (1768); . France to Ukraine: Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Sicilia, Switzerland, Türkey-in-Europe, Ukraine; Introduced into: Alabama, Arkansas, Baltic States, Belgium, British Columbia, California, Central European Russia, Connecticut, Delaware,…

  • Strobilanthes jeyporensis

    Strobilanthes jeyporensis Bedd., Icon. Pl. Ind. Or.: 50 (1874) (syn: Phlebophyllum jeyporense (Bedd.) Bremek.); . E. India as per POWO; . 170825PKD1: Id pls collected from Koraput Odisha on August 2025: 4 high res. images. Strobilanthes ? yes it looks like strobilanthes What are the species reported from there? Sorry, I…

  • Cyperus species- Kannur, Kerala

    ID Kannur 02: 1 high res. image. Please identify….from Kannur in Kerala. 5/8/25 Please check : https://efloraofindia.com/efi/cyperus/ Could not find anything close as per images at https://efloraofindia.com/efi/cyperus/ Any other images, …?  

  • Cyperus species- Kannur, Kerala

    ID Kannur 01: 1 image. Please identify this plant from a montane habitat in Kannur in Kerala. 5/8/25 Please check : https://efloraofindia.com/efi/cyperus/ Any other images, …? Could not find anything close as per comparative images at https://efloraofindia.com/efi/cyperus/  

  • Pancratium species?- Devgad in the Kokan area in Maharashtra

    Devgad, MH, June 2025 :: Chlorophytum (?) for ID :: ARK2025-075: 2 high res. images. This was clicked near Devgad in the Kokan area in Maharashtra in late May 2025. The monsoon was early this year. Had also clicked it around mid-June in 2019. The monsoons were highly delayed that…

  • Brachypodium

    Brachypodium pinnatum (L.) P.Beauv. (Temp. Eurasia to Himalaya, Eritrea: Albania, Altay, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Central European Russia, China North-Central, China South-Central, Chita, Corse, Cyprus, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, Eritrea, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy,…

  • Brachypodium pinnatum

    Brachypodium pinnatum (L.) P.Beauv., Ess. Agrostogr.: 101, 155 (1812) (syn: Agropyron pinnatum (L.) Chevall. ; Avena laeta Salisb. ; Brachypodium corniculatum Dumort. ; Bromus corniculatus Lam. ; Bromus pinnatus L. ; Festuca pinnata (L.) Huds. ; Tragus pinnatus (L.) Panz. ; Triticum bromoides Weber ; Triticum pinnatum (L.) Moench ; Triticum pinnatum var. corniculatum Mathieu ; Agropyron gracile Chevall. ; Brachypodium abbreviatum Dumort. ;…

  • Psychotria species- Kottiyoor WLS, Kerala

    Tarenna sp. ID Help requested: 3 high res. images. Please help with the identification of this plant. Location: Kottiyoor WLS, Kerala Date: August 08, 2025 Elevation:  466 m  Habitat : Moist evergreen forest, beside stream Psychotria sp. Can someone get images of Psychotria keralensis Deb & M.G.Gangop ?  

  • Diplazium esculentum or Thelypteris (Christella) arida ?

    Please identify fern species: 2 heic images. I think it is from Hooghly, West Bengal. The photographs are completely inadequate.  1. Do not photograph young uncurling fronds and expect them to be identifiable .2, Photograph frond bases (lower pinnae), not apices. 3. Ensure photos remain in focus when magnified so we…