Maesa rugosa

Maesa rugosa C. B. Clarke, Fl. Brit. India 3: 508 (1882); . E. Himalaya to China (NW. Yunnan) and Myanmar: Assam, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Tibet as per POWO; . Common name: Wrinkled-Leaf Wild Berry . Id of Flowers -ID13032024SH1: 3 images. Flower for Id pl. Location – Lava, Kalimpong Dist, W.Bengal Date – February […]

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Efloraofindia website updated up to 29th Feb.’24

Efloraofindia website updated up to 29th Feb.’24: 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 4,62,700 messages so far & membership currently more than 3480 nos. efloraofindia (eFI in short) website is […]

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Convolvulus species?- Assam

Convolvulaceae species from Assam KD 03, Feb 24: 3 images. Attached images are Convolvulaceae sp. (?) from Assam. Please ID of the species Date : 28.01.2024 Location: Assam Family : Convolvulaceae Genus & species : ?? Habit :  Climber Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. ??? Wild or cultivated ?? Yes! The species is cultivated. Buds look different as per images […]

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Connarus wightii 

. 537 ID wild climber Connarus: 21 high res. images. Please ID wild climber, Location: bloomed near Vannappuram Thodupuzha Idukki Kerala INDIA Altitude: 1500fsl Flower date: 02MAR2024, 11.45am Habitat: wild moisture evergreen misty sloppy canopied alpine Plant habit: woody climber, branches, branchlets, hard woody cylindrical stem 06 inches base circumference, smooth black bark, brownish rusty […]

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Picea × albertiana (Canada)

Picea × albertiana S. Br., Torreya 7: 126 (1907) (syn: Picea alba var. albertiana (S.Br.) Beissn. ; Picea × albertiana var. densata (L.H.Bailey) W.L.Strong & Hills ; Picea × albertiana subsp. ogilviei W.L.Strong & Hills ; Picea × albertiana var. porsildii (Raup) W.L.Strong & Hills ; Picea glauca subsp. albertiana (S.Br.) P.A.Schmidt ; Picea glauca var. albertiana (S.Br.) Sarg. ; Picea glauca var. densata L.H.Bailey ; Picea glauca subsp. ogilviei (W.L.Strong & Hills) Silba ; Picea glauca var. porsildii Raup ; Picea glauca subsp. porsildii (Raup) Silba ); . Yukon to NW. South Dakota: […]

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Cymbidium hybrids?- Pangthang, Sikkim

Cymbidium for Id (Pangthang- Sikkim): 2 very high res. images. kindly assist in the identification of a cymbidium species observed growing ex-situ at Pangthang- East Sikkim, India. Speaking with the owner of the plant the plant was collected from the wild and was in bloom June 2023. Attached is the photograph. Are you sure this […]

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Linaria vulgaris (Introduced- Canada)

Linaria vulgaris Mill., Gard. Dict., ed. 8.: n.° 1 (1768) (syn: Antirrhinum linaria L. ; Antirrhinum vulgare (Mill.) Gray ; Linaria linaria (L.) H.Karst. ; Peloria linaria (L.) Raf. ); . Europe to Siberia and Central Asia: Albania, Altay, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Central European Rus, China North-Central, China Southeast, Corse, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., […]

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Ambrosia psilostachya (Canada)

Ambrosia psilostachya DC., Prodr. 5: 526 (1836) (syn: Ambrosia californica Rydb. ; Ambrosia coronopifolia Torr. & A.Gray ; Ambrosia lindheimeriana Scheele ; Ambrosia peruviana DC. ; Ambrosia psilostachya var. californica (Rydb.) S.F.Blake ; Ambrosia psilostachya var. coronopifolia (Torr. & A.Gray) Farw. ex Fernald ; Ambrosia psilostachya var. lindheimeriana (Scheele) Blank. ; Ambrosia rugelii Rydb. ); . N. & S. America: Alabama, Alberta, Arizona, Arkansas, British Columbia, California, Colorado, Connecticut, […]

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Poaceae member- Tungareshwar Wildlife Sanctuary, Maharashtra

  Poaceae, Cyperaceae and Juncaceae Week :: Poaceae at Tungareshwar WLS for ID :: 10 OCT 09 12:53 :: DV38 : 1 image. 1 post by 1 author. Poaceae Grass Place, Altitude: Tungareshwar Wildlife Sanctuary … about 510 ft asl Date, Time: 10 OCT 09 … 12:53pm Habitat: along large path in dry deciduous forest […]

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Rhynchanthus species- Arunachal Pradesh

Identification of Zingiberaceae genus : 1 image. kindly help in the identification of the Zingiberaceae genus collected from Arunachal Pradesh,  India. Looks like something new ! Rhynchanthus sp. I was also guessing the same genus but could not find any match since only one sp., Rhynchanthus longiflorus Hook.f. has got distribution in India but does not look […]

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Oropetium villosulum

Oropetium villosulum Stapf ex Bor, Kew Bull. 4: 571 (1949 publ. 1950) ; . India as per POWO; . Common name: Hairy Rockgrass . Oropetium villosulum images: 2 images. From Sh. Sushant More ji. At Laling Dhule, Maharashtra. Illustration By Shahid Landge. Collected at Gharapuri Island, Mumbai with A. Rajbhar and R chaudhary. Posted at iNaturalist […]

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Trisetaria

Trisetaria loeflingiana (L.) Paunero (Canary Islands, Medit. to Central Asia and Indian Subcontinent: Afghanistan, Algeria, Canary Is., India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, North Caucasus, Pakistan, South European Russi, Spain, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya as per POWO)

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Hunteria

Hunteria zeylanica (Retz.) Gardner ex Thwaites (Somalia to Mozambique, India to W. Malesia: Andaman Is., Cambodia, Hainan, India, Kenya, Laos, Malaya, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Tanzania, Thailand, Vietnam as per POWO)          

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Hunteria zeylanica

Hunteria zeylanica (Retz.) Gardner ex Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Zeyl.: 191 (1860) (syn: Cameraria zeylanica Retz. ; Gynopogon lanceolatus Kurz ; Hunteria africana K.Schum. ; Hunteria corymbosa Roxb. ; Hunteria corymbosa var. roxburghiana (Wight) Trimen ex Gamble ; Hunteria corymbosa var. salicifolia (Wall. ex A.DC.) Hallier f. ; Hunteria corymbosa var. zeylanica (Retz.) Hallier f.; Hunteria lanceolata Wall. ex A.DC. ; Hunteria legocii Livera ; Hunteria roxburghiana Wight ; Hunteria zeylanica var. africana (K.Schum.) Pichon ; […]

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Artocarpus zeylanicus

Artocarpus zeylanicus (F. M. Jarrett) E. M. Gardner & Zerega, Gard. Bull. Singapore 72: 208 (2020) (syn: Artocarpus gomezianus subsp. zeylanicus F.M.Jarrett); . S. India, Sri Lanka as per POWO; . Habit: Deciduous trees, up to 35 m tall. Trunk & Bark: Bark brownish, flaking in small scales, lenticellate; blaze reddish. Branches and branchlets: Young branchlets terete, minutely grey pubescent. Exudates: Latex […]

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Strobilanthes species- Kumara Paravath, Karnataka (Pushpagiri WLS)

Strobilanthes sp at Kumaraparvath Karnataka: PKA1: 6 images. Seen this plant in the rock  crevices near KumaraParavath, Karnataka (Pushpagiri WLS). Looks like some Strobilanthes sp. Kindly help me with the ID. What does Strobilanthes minor Talbot look like?  I have not found any images on the Net ! I could not find even a specimen in GBIF or […]

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Isachne kunthiana

Isachne kunthiana (Wight & Arn. ex Steud.) Miq., Fl. Ned. Ind. 3: 460 (1857) (syn: Isachne elatior Hook.f. ; Isachne kunthiana var. elatior (Hook.f.) Alston ; Isachne kunthiana var. eligulata Davidse ; Isachne kunthiana var. latifolia Hook.f. ; Isachne kunthiana var. srilankensis Davidse ; Isachne metzii (Hochst. ex Steud.) Henrard ; Isachne neesiana Arn. ex Steud. ; Panicum cuspidiglume Steud. ; Panicum metzii Hochst. ex Steud. ; Panicum obliquum Zoll. ex Steud. ); […]

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Dichanthelium

Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark (Introduced) (E. U.S.A. to Ecuador, Caribbean: Alabama, Arkansas, Belize, Colombia, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Cuba, Delaware, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, Georgia, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Nicaragua, […]

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Syzygium nervosum ?

Myrtaceae: Syzygium nervosum DC.: 2 high res. images. synonyms: Cleistocalyx operculatus (Roxb.) Merr. & L.M.Perry, Eugenia operculata Roxb., Syzygium operculatum (Roxb.) Nied. location/date (both): University of Agricultural Sciences campus, Bangalore, July 1997 I am yet to find as to how to differentiate it from widely variable https://efloraofindia.com/2011/04/01/syzygium-cumini/ Maybe … can clarify as to what it can be […]

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Ischaemum ciliare

Ischaemum ciliare Retz., Observ. Bot. 6: 36 (1791) (syn: Andropogon aesthenos Steud. ; Andropogon asthenos Steud. ; Andropogon bifidus Steud. ; Andropogon macraei Steud. ; Andropogon malacophyllus Hochst. ex Steud. ; Andropogon patentivillosus Steud. ; Andropogon ramosus Blanco ; Andropogon retzii Steud. ; Andropogon simillimus Steud. ; Ischaemum apricum Ridl. ; Ischaemum aristatum var. wallichii (Hack.) Bor ; Ischaemum ciliare var. longipilum Hack. ; Ischaemum ciliare var. malacophyllum (Hochst. ex Steud.) Hack. ; Ischaemum […]

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