Litsea floribunda (Bl.) Gamble, Gamble, Fl. Madras 2: 1238. 1993; . Dioecious trees, to 15 high, bark 8-10 mm thick, light brown, smooth, brittle, lenticellate; lenticels horizontal; blaze dull yellow; branchlets brown to black pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 10-15 mm long, stout, pubescent; lamina 7.5-28 x 3.7-10.5 cm,…
Litsea deccanensis Gamble, Fl. Madras. 1235. (Syn: Litsea tomentosa Heyne ex Wall.; Tetranthera tomentosa Roxb. ex Wall. ex Wight); . LIT-see-a — Chinese litse or Ii, meaning small, little … Dave’s Botanary day-kahn-NEN-sis — of or from Deccan peninsula, India ak-tin-oh-DAF-nee — Greek: aktinos (ray) and daphne, who was transformed…
Litchi chinensis Sonn., Voy. Ind. Orient. 3: 255-258 255 1782. (Syn: Corvinia litschi (Lour.) Stadm. ex Willem.; Dimocarpus litchi Lour.; Euphoria litchi (Lour.) Juss.; Euphoria punicea Lam.; Euphoria sinensis (Sonner.) J. F. Gmel.; Laetji chinensis (Sonner.) Osb. ex Steud.; Litchi litchi (Cambess.) Britton; Litchi sinensis (Sonner.) J. F. Gmel.; Nephelium…
Lindernia crustacea (L.) F.Muell. (Syn. Antirrhinum hexandrum Forssk.; Antirrhinum hexandrum G.Forst.; Buchnera capillaris Desv. ex Ham.; Capraria crustacea L. (Unresolved); Gratiola aspera Roth; Gratiola lucida Willd.; Gratiola lucida Vahl.; Hornemannia ovata Link & Otto (Unresolved); Linaria hexandra F.Dietr. (Unresolved); Mimulus javanicus Blume (Unresolved); Morgania aspera Spreng. (Unresolved); Morgania lucida Spreng.; Pentsteira paniculata Griff. (Unresolved); Pyxidaria crustacea…
Artanema longifolium (L.) Vatke (Tropical Old World: Angola, Benin, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Congo, Gabon, Ghana, India, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Malaya, Myanmar, Nigeria, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, Zaïre as per POWO) Craterostigma plantagineum Hochst. (Tropical & Northern Prov., SW. Arabian Peninsula, India: Angola, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Namibia, Niger, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia,…
Lindernia ciliata (Colsm.) Pennell, J. Arnold Arbor. 24(3): 253 253 1943. (syn. Gratiola ciliata Colsm. (Unresolved); Gratiola serrata Roxburgh; Ilysanthes ciliata (Colsm.) Kuntze; Ilysanthes serrata (Roxburgh) Urb.; Vandellia ciliata (Colsm.) T. Yamaz.; Bonnaya brachiata Link & Otto); . lin-DERN-ee-uh — named for Franz Balthasar von Lindern, German botanist sil-ee-ATE-uh or sil-ee-AH-tuh…
Lindernia antipoda (L.) Alston, Handb. Fl. Ceylon 6(Suppl., 2): 214 214 1931. (syn. Bonnaya antipoda (L.) Druce; Bonnaya bracteata Griff.; Bonnaya cyanea Griff.; Bonnaya grandiflora Spreng.; Bonnaya marginata Spreng.; Bonnaya pulegiifolia Spreng.; Bonnaya rothii A.Dietr.; Bonnaya roxburghiana A.Dietr.; Bonnaya verbenifolia Spreng.; Bonnaya veronicifolia (Retz.) Spreng.; Bonnaya veronicifolia var. angustifolia C.T.White &…
Lindera nacusua (D. Don) Merr. Lindera neesiana (Wall. ex Nees) Kurz Lindera pulcherrima (Nees) Hook. f. Lindera species- Dibang district, Arunachal Pradesh Lindera species ?- between Naya Bazar and Rinchingpong in Sikkim Lindera species ?- Arunachal Pradesh . FRLHT Indian Medicinal Plants Nomenclature Database with images/ specimen,…
Cynoglossum stylosum subsp. stylosum (syn: Lindelofia angustifolia (Schrenk) Brand; Lindelofia benthamii Hook. fil.; Lindelofia stylosa (Karelin & Kirilov) Brand (ambiguous synonym); Lindelofia stylosa A. Brand (ambiguous synonym); Solenanthus angustifolius Schrenk; Solenanthus nigricans Schrenk; Solenanthus stylosus Lipsky) as per Catalogue of Life; . Common name: Protruding Style Lindelofia • Ladakhi: མཀཔེན…
Limonia acidissima L., Sp. Pl. ed. 2 554 1762. (syn. Anisifolium limonia Kuntze; Crateva balangas K.D.Koenig; Crateva vallanga K.D.Koenig ex Wight & Arn.; Feronia balanghas (K.D.Koenig) Steud.; Feronia elephantum Corrêa; Feronia limonia (L.) Swingle; Schinus limonia L.); . Indian Subcontinent to Andaman Islands: Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri…
Limonia acidissima L. (Indian Subcontinent to Andaman Islands: Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka; Introduced into: Cambodia, Fiji, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam as per POWO) . BSI Flora of India Checklist Vol. 4 (1997) (Distribution): Limonia acidissima L. (India: Dry or moist deciduous forests at lower-elevations. Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, W. Bengal, Maharashtra,…
Limnophyton obtusifolium (L.) Miq., Fl. Ned. Ind. 3: 243 1856. (syn. Alisma kotschyi Hochst.; Alisma obtusifolium (L.) Thwaites; Alisma sagittifolium Willd.; Alisma sagittifolium Thwaites; Caldesia sagittarioides Ostenf.; Dipseudochorion sagittifolium (Willd.) Buchenau; Dipseudochorion sagittifolium Buch.; Limnophyton obtusifolium var. lunatum ; Limnophyton parvifolium Peter; Sagittaria nymphaeifolia Hochst.; Sagittaria obtusifolia L.); . Trop….
Lilium davidii Duch. ex Elwes (Image by Nitu, ID by Debasish Joardar) Lilium lancifolium Thunb. (Images by Alok Mahendroo (1,2,3-ID by Ritesh Kumar Chaudhary) and Ranjini Kamath (4-ID by Gurcharan Singh)) Lilium longiflorum Thunb. Lilium maculatum Thunb. Cv. ‘Batemanniae’ (Images by Gurcharan Singh) Lilium nepalense D.Don Lilium polyphyllum D.Don (Images by…
Ligustrum compactum (Wall. ex G.Don) Hook.f. & Thomson ex Brandis (China South-Central; East Himalaya; Nepal; Tibet; West Himalaya as Catalogue of Life) Ligustrum confusum Decne. (Himalaya to China (Yunnan) and Pen. Malaysia as per WCSP) Ligustrum lucidum W.T.Aiton Ligustrum minii Raizada (Endemic to the Western Ghats- South and Central Sahyadris as per India…
Leycesteria formosa Wall. (Images by Dinesh Valke and Prashant ) Leycesteria gracilis (Kurz) Airy Shaw (Images by Sheila (ID by Sheila and Vijayashankar)) Leycesteria stipulata (Hook. f. & Thomson) Fritsch (Images by Sheila) . Leycesteria (Caprifoliaceae) page with images of species in efloraofindia : 3 posts by 2 authors. Pl….
Abelia × grandiflora (Ravelli ex André) Rehder (Images by Gurcharan Singh and Aarti S. Khale (1,2- ID by Gurcharan Singh)) Abelia triflora R.Br. ex Wall. (Images by Ashwini Bhatia (id by D S Rawat), Suresh Rana (ID by Gurcharan Singh) and V.P.Bhatt (ID by D.S.Rawat) (Inserted by D S Rawat & J.M.Garg) (For more images & complete details,…
Leucophyllum frutescens (Berland.) I.M. Johnst., Contr. Gray Herb. 70: 89 89 1924. (Syn: Leucophyllum frutescens f. albiflorum Clover; Leucophyllum frutescens f. albineum Lundell; Leucophyllum texanum Benth.; Terania frutescens Berland.); . USA (Texas), Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Nuevo Leon, Queretaro, San Luis Potosi, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Zacatecas), Haiti (I),…
Species listed in Nepal as per efi thread: Listing here for future reference: Leucocoprinus birnbaumii Leucocoprinus cepistipes Leucocoprinus flos-sulfuris . Leucocoprinus birnbaumii (Corda) Singer ? Leucocoprinus cepistipes (Sowerby) Pat. Leucocoprinus species- Pune, Maharashtra Leucocoprinus species ?- Wayanad, Kerala Leucocoprinus species- Wynad, Kerala Leucocoprinus species- Sindhudrg, Maharashtra
Leucas stelligera Wall. ex Benth., Pl. Asiat. Rar. 1: 61 1830. (Syn: Leucas eriostoma var. longifolia Hook.f.; Leucas hamatula Arn.); . LOO-kus — from the Greek leukos (white) stel-LIG-er-a — bearing stars . commonly known as: starry leucas • Marathi: बुरुंबी burumbi, गोमा goma . Native to: w Himalaya, India,…
Leucas montana (Roth) Spreng., Syst. Veg. 2: 742 1825. (Syn: Leucas hamiltoniana Benth.; Leucas montana var. parviflora Haines; Leucas montana f. parviflora (Haines) S.R.Paul; Leucas montana var. wightii Hook.f.; Leucas montana f. wightii (Hook.f.) S.R.Paul; Phlomis montana Roth); . LOO-kus — from the Greek leukos (white) … Dave’s Botanary MON-tah-nuh or mon-TAY-nuh — of the mountains … Dave’s…