Ipomoea

Ipomoea acanthocarpa (Choisy) Asch. & Schweinf. Ipomoea alba L. (Images by Surajit Koley – current legitimate name by Ron)   Ipomoea aquatica Forssk. Ipomoea asarifolia (Desr.) Roem. & Schult. ? Ipomoea barleioides (Choisy) Benth. ex C.B. Clarke (Images by Prashant Awale & Shrikant Ingalhalikar) Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. (Images by Gurcharan Singh, Surajit Koley & Satish Phadke, (inserted […]

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Chloris

Chloris barbata Sw. (Tropical & Subtropical Old World: Aldabra, Algeria, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, China Southeast, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Gulf States, India, Iran, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, Kuwait, Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malaya, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Rodrigues, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, South […]

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Alstonia venenata

Alstonia venenata R.Br., Asclepiadeae 64 1810. (Syn: Alstonia venenata var. pubescens Monach.; Blaberopus venenatus (R.Br.) A.DC.; Echites venenatus Roxb. ex A.DC.); . al-STON-ee-uh — named for Dr. C. Alston, 18th cent. Scottish Prof. of Botany at Edinburgh … Dave’s Botanaryven-en-AY-tuh — poisoned, drugged or enchanted … Dave’s Botanary  . commonly known as: poison devil tree • Kannada: ಅಡ್ಡಸರ್ಪ addasarpa • Malayalam: അണലിവേഗം analivegam • Mundari: mangar jita • Odia: ରଣଜିତ ranajita • Sanskrit: राजादन rajadana, विषघ्नी […]

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Apocynaceae

Keys of Asclepiadaceae in Flora of Bhutan: 1. Large erect shrubs, small trees, erect to sprawling herbs or epiphytes 2 + Twining shrubs  . . . . .. 8 2. Large erect shrubs or small trees more than 50cm tall . . . . . . ..9. Calotropis + Epiphytes or terrestrial herbs, sprawling or erect, […]

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Arecaceae

Actinorhytis calapparia (Blume) H.Wendl. & Drude ex Scheff. (Images by Raghu Ananth (Id by Pudji Widodo & Mahadeswara Swamy) (Inserted by Nadeem Waqif & J.M.Garg)) Adonidia merrillii (Becc.) Becc. (Images by Alka Khare (Id/ validation by Rajan Karnik & Andrew Henderson), Rashida Atthar (Id by Satish Pardeshi), Aarti S Khale & Surajit Koley (id by Pudji widodo & […]

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Bignoniaceae

Comparative images except for Handroanthus and Tabebuia‎ are given below: . Adenocalymma comosum (Cham.) DC. (Images by Ranjini Kamath (ID by Kenneth), (Inserted by Gurcharan Singh & J.M.Garg) (Click link to see details)) Amphilophium buccinatorium (DC.) L.G.Lohmann (Images by Usha Desai and Gurcharan Singh, Inserted by Gurcharan Singh (Please click links to see details and more images)) Anemopaegma chamberlaynii (Sims) Bureau & K.Schum. (Image by Aarti Khale (ID […]

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Wikstroemia

Wikstroemia canescens Wall. ex Meisn. (E. Afghanistan to Myanmar and Sri Lanka: Afghanistan, Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tibet, West Himalaya as per POWO) Wikstroemia indica (L.) C. Meyer (Tropical & Subtropical Asia to SW. Pacific, Australia: Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, India, Maluku, Myanmar, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Philippines, Queensland, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, […]

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Thymelaeaceae

  Aquilaria malaccensis Lam. (Bangladesh to W. & Central Malesia: Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, East Himalaya, Malaya, Myanmar, Philippines, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam as per POWO) Daphne bholua Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don (2000-2900 m; Himalaya (Nepal to NEFA), Khasia, W. China as per Checklist of Nepal) (Keys after studying all posts in efi site and various literature like Flora of China: Daphne bholua Buchanan-Hamilton ex D. Don: Margin sometimes […]

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Ailanthus excelsa

Ailanthus excelsa Roxb., Pl. Coromandel 1: t. 23 1795. (syn: Ailanthus wightii Tiegh.; Pongelion excelsum (Roxb.) Pierre; Pongelion wighti Van Tiegh.); . India (Indian Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala), Andaman Isl., Nicobar Isl., Pakistan (I), Sri Lanka, Bangladesh as per Catalogue […]

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Ailanthus

Keys in Flora of Pakistan, Flora of China and Flora of Peninsular India   Ailanthus altissima (Mill.) Swingle (Introduced) (Caucasus (I), Georgia [Caucasus] (I), Turkmenistan (I), China (widespread), Taiwan (I), Japan (I), Ryukyu Isl. (I), Korea (I), Ukraine (I), Crimea (I), Tajikistan (I), Uzbekistan (I), India, Pakistan (Baluchistan), Pakistani Kashmir (Gilgit, Hazara), Jammu & Kashmir (Kashmir), […]

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Simaroubaceae

Ailanthus altissima (Mill.) Swingle (Introduced) (Caucasus (I), Georgia [Caucasus] (I), Turkmenistan (I), China (widespread), Taiwan (I), Japan (I), Ryukyu Isl. (I), Korea (I), Ukraine (I), Crimea (I), Tajikistan (I), Uzbekistan (I), India, Pakistan (Baluchistan), Pakistani Kashmir (Gilgit, Hazara), Jammu & Kashmir (Kashmir), Vietnam, Malesia to Solomon Isl., Albania (I), Austria (I), Belgium (I), England (I), Bulgaria […]

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Rheum

Keys available at Flora of Pakistan and Flora of China . Rheum australe D. Don (Keys between Rheum australe (Flowers purple red, Inflorescence fastigiately branched, 0.3-1 m erect leafy panicle) and Rheum webbianum (Flowers pale yellowish, Inflorescence diffusely branched, mostly axillary, less commonly terminal) at Flora of Pakistan and Flora of China)       Rheum moorcroftianum Royle (W. & Central Tibet and Nepal: Nepal, Tibet, West Himalaya as per POWO)   Rheum nobile […]

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Polygonaceae

Comparative images of Polygonaceae are given below except for the genus: Bistorta, Koenigia, Persicaria, Polygonum, Rumex (whose comparative images can be seen at these links): . Antigonon leptopus Hook. & Arn. (Introduced) (Mexico to Central America: Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua; Introduced into: Alabama, Andaman Is., Argentina Northwest, Aruba, Ascension, Assam, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Benin, […]

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Eleusine

Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn. (W. Tropical Africa to Socotra and Angola: Angola, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Socotra, Sudan, Zaïre; Introduced into: Afghanistan, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Brazil West-Central, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Czechoslovakia, East Himalaya, Egypt, Fiji, Gulf States, Hainan, India, Inner Mongolia, Japan, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Libya, Malaya, […]

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Fabaceae (Leguminosae)

Only comparative images of genera which have only one or two species in it so far in efloraofindia (20.5.17) are given below: . Acrocarpus fraxinifolius Arn. Aganope thyrsiflora (Benth.) Polhill Alhagi maurorum Medik. Amherstia nobilis Wall. Amphicarpaea ferruginea Benth. (Nepal to China (Sichuan, Yunnan) and Thailand: Assam, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand as per POWO)      Andira […]

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Girardinia diversifolia

Girardinia diversifolia (Link) Friis, Kew Bull. 36: 145 1981. (syn. Girardinia adoensis (Steud.) Wedd.; Girardinia armata Kunth [Illegitimate]; Girardinia chingianae S.S.Chien; Girardinia condensata (Hochst. ex Steud.) Wedd. .; Girardinia cuspidata subsp. grammata C.J.Chen; Girardinia diversifolia subsp. ciliata (C.J.Chen) H.W.Li; Girardinia erosa Decne. .; Girardinia formosana Hayata ex Yamam.; Girardinia furialis Blume; Girardinia heterophylla (Vahl) Decne. .; Girardinia hibiscifolia […]

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Girardinia

Girardinia diversifolia (Link) Friis (Tropical & Subtropical Old World: Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cameroon, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Ethiopia, Guinea, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Pakistan, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Uganda, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe as per POWO)        . BSI Flora of India […]

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Urticaceae

Comparative images of this family except for Boehmeria, Elatostema, Pilea, Pouzolzia and Urtica (which can be seen by clicking on these links), are given below: . Chamabainia cuspidata Wight (Himalaya to Taiwan, Jawa: Assam, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Taiwan, Tibet, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO) Debregeasia dentata Hook. fil. (Assam to Indo-China: Assam, Bangladesh, Vietnam as per POWO)        Debregeasia longifolia (Burm.f.) Wedd. (China […]

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Eragrostiella

Eragrostiella bifaria (Vahl) Bor (Ethiopia to Tanzania, Indian Subcontinent to Indo-China, Queensland: Andaman Is., Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Myanmar, Queensland, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, West Himalaya as per POWO) Eragrostiella brachyphylla (Stapf) Bor (India to Bangladesh, Sri Lanka as per POWO)   > Eragrostiella (Poaceae) page with comparative images: Pl. go through‎ ‎‎Eragrostiella (Poaceae) page with comparative images of species in efloraofindia. On clicking […]

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Aspidopterys

Aspidopterys canarensis Dalzell Aspidopterys cordata (B.Heyne ex Wall.) A.Juss.   Aspidopterys indica (Willd.) W.Theob. Aspidopterys nutans (Roxb. ex DC.) Juss. (Himalaya to China (Yunnan) and Indo-China: Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Tibet, West Himalaya as per POWO)        Aspidopterys wallichii Hook.f. . Aspidopterys ‎(‎Malpighiaceae) page with images of species in efloraofindia : 1 post by 1 author. […]

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