• Cornus alba (Introduced- UK)

    • April 14, 2022
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    Cornus alba L., Mant. Pl. 1: 40 1767. (syn: Cornus alba f. sibirica (Lodd. ex Loudon) Geerinck; Cornus alba var. sibirica Lodd. ex Loudon; Cornus alba subsp. tatarica (Mill.) Wangerin; Cornus dichotoma Raf.; Cornus hessei Koehne; Cornus pumila Koehne; Cornus purpurea Tausch; Cornus sibirica (Lodd. ex Loudon) Loudon; Cornus spaethii G.Nicholson; Cornus subumbellata Komatsu; Cornus tatarica Mill.; Swida alba (L.) Opiz; Swida alba var. argenteomarginata (Rehder) Moldenke; Swida alba var. sibirica (Lodd. ex Loudon) P.D.Sell;…

  • Humboldtia unijuga

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    Humboldtia unijuga Bedd., Icon. Pl. Ind. Or.: 22 (1870) (syn: Batschia unijuga (Bedd.) Kuntze); . S. India as per POWO; . Common name: Bark-Flower Humboldtia . Trees; to 8 m high, branches slender, solid, terete, strigose when young, glabrous and faintly suberose when mature. Leaves bifoliate, alternate; stipule lateral, 5-7 x 2.5 mm…

  • Humboldtia sanjappae

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    Humboldtia sanjappae Sasidh. & Sujanapal, Rheedea 17: 21 (2007); . India (Kerala) as per POWO; . Medium sized trees, to 20 m. in height and to 40 cm in diameter, bark greenish brown, smooth, blaze red, branchlets stout, terete, glabrous. Leaves pinnate, to 25 cm long, rachis to 10 cm long,…

  • Humboldtia bourdillonii

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    Endangered . Humboldtia bourdillonii Prain, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 73: 200 (1904); . India (Kerala) as per POWO; . Trees, to 15 m high, bark reddish-brown, smooth; branchlets solid, glabrous. Leaves paripinnate, alternate; stipules lateral, ovate, acute, prominently veined, glabrous, appendages falcate, rounded, veined, persistent; rachis 10-12 cm…

  • Rhododendron delavayi

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    Rhododendron delavayi Franch., Bull. Soc. Bot. France 33: 231 1886. (syn: Azalea delavayi (Franch.) Kuntze; Rhododendron arboreum subsp. delavayi (Franch.) D.F.Chamb.); . E. Himalaya to S. Central China (and NW. Guangxi) to Indo-China: Assam, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam as per POWO; . MS,April,2022/05 Rhododendron arboreum or delavayi for id.:…

  • Berberis darwinii (Introduced- UK)

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    Berberis darwinii Hook., Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 7: t. 672 (1844) (syn: Berberis costulata Gand.; Berberis knightii (Lindl.) K.Koch; Mahonia knightii Lindl.); . Central & S. Central Chile to S. Argentina; Introduced into: California, Great Britain, Ireland, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Oregon, Victoria as per POWO; . SK 3395 08…

  • Muscari aucheri ? (UK)

    • April 13, 2022
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    Muscari aucheri (Boiss.) Baker, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 11: 418 1870. (syn: Botryanthus aucheri Boiss.; Muscari lingulatum Baker; Muscari sintenisii Freyn; Muscari tubergenianum Hoog ex Turrill; Muscari tubergenianum Hoog ex Turrill); . Turkey as per POWO; . SK 3393 07 April 2022: 2 very high res. images. Location: Royal Garden Hyde Park , London  Altitude: 30m….

  • Phanera species- Jawa, Indonesia

    • April 12, 2022
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    Flower of Jawa 2: 1 image. Could you help me identify our Phanera please. I think flowers are needed. The shape of the leaves and the veins remind me of Bauhinia sp. Yes, Phanera is related to Bauhinia. Seems to liana, Phanera vahlii, I cannot identify but definitely not Phanera…

  • Lupinus magnificus (USA)

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    Lupinus magnificus M.E.Jones, Contr. W. Bot. 8: 26 (1898); . California, USA as per POWO; . Lupinus for ID from Shasta, California-GS28032022-2: 4 very high res. images. Please help with the ID of this Lupinus sp. photographed from Shasta mountains, California, 5-7-2008. Their are so many in California. Pl. check out of…

  • Choisya x dewitteana (UK)

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    Choisya × dewitteana Geerinck, Taxonomania 6: 6 (2002); . SK 3388 06 April 2022: 6 very high res. images. Location: Royal Garden Hyde Park , London  Altitude: 30m. Date: 27 March 2022 Habit : Cultivated Choisya x dewitteana     . References: POWO https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/29235/choisya-x-dewitteana-aztec-pearl/details https://landscapeplants.oregonstate.edu/plants/choisya-dewitteana-aztec-pearl https://www.thompson-morgan.com/p/choisya-x-dewitteana-aztec-pearl/t66143TM

  • Lepisorus sublinearis ?

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    Lepisorus sublinearis (Bak. ex Takeda) Ching, Bull. Fan Mem. Inst. Biol. 4(3): 78 1933. (syn: Lepisorus cespitosus Y.X.Lin; Lepisorus lancifolius Ching; Pleopeltis sublinearis (Baker ex Takeda) Tagawa & K.Iwats.; Polypodium sublineare Baker ex Takeda); . Himalaya to China (Yunnan) and Indo-China: Assam, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per…

  • Tillandsia stricta (Introduced)

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    Tillandsia stricta Sol. ex Ker Gawl., Bot. Mag. 37: t. 1529 1813. (syn: Anoplophytum strictum (Sol. ex Ker Gawl.) Beer; Anoplophytum bicolor Beer; Anoplophytum krameri (André) É.Morren ex Baker; Tillandsia conspersa Miq.; Tillandsia krameri (André) Baker; Tillandsia langsdorffii Mez; Tillandsia pulchella var. rosea (Lindl.) Mez; Tillandsia rosea Lindl.; Tillandsia stricta var. albiflora H.Hrom. & Rauh; Tillandsia stricta var. krameri (André) Mez; Tillandsia stricta f. nivea Leme); . E. Colombia to…

  • Knema linifolia

    • April 11, 2022
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    Knema linifolia (Roxb.) Warb., Monogr. Myristic. 558, pl. 24(1–3) 1897. (syn: Myristica clarkeana King; Myristica linifolia Roxb.; Palala longifolia (Wall. ex Blume) Kuntze); . E. Himalaya to China (SW. Yunnan) and Myanmar: Assam, Bangladesh, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Myanmar as per POWO; . MS Oct, 2019/07 Knema sp. for Id. : 5 posts by 2…

  • Knema tenuinervia subsp. tenuinervia

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    Knema tenuinervia W. J. J. O. de Wilde, Blumea 25: 405 (1979) ; . E. Nepal to China (S. Yunnan) and Myanmar: Assam, Bangladesh, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal as per POWO; . MS,March,2022/07 Knema sp. for id.: 1 very high res. image. Location : Lungkulh, Mizoram Altitude : ca…

  • Efloraofindia website updated up to 31st March’22

    • April 8, 2022
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    Efloraofindia website updated up to 31st March’22- 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 4,18,600 messages so far & membership currently around 3320 nos. efloraofindia (eFI…

  • Phanera species?- Northern part of Jawa, Indonesia

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    Flower of Jawa 1: 1 high res. images. I would like to know the name of the following Phanera (Fabaceae). Location: Northern part of Jawa. Thank you for your mail. I could not identify. Does not look like Phanera. Could it be Clematis ??

  • Skimmia species ?- National History Museum, London, UK

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    SK 3378 30 March 2022: 5 very high res. images Location: National History Museum, London  Altitude: 10m. Date: 27 March 2022 Habit : Cultivated  Is it Skimmia…? Skimmia japonica Thunb. ?? Interesting. I have been thinking. Have ruled out most evergreens in UK Sorry but never seen a Skimmia in UK that…

  • Calceolaria thyrsiflora (Introduced- USA)

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    Calceolaria thyrsiflora R. Grah., Edinburgh New Philos. J. 5: 372 1828. (syn: Calceolaria thyrsiflora var. alliacea Phil.; Calceolaria thyrsiflora var. dulcis Phil.; Fagelia thyrsiflora (Graham) Kuntze); . Central Chile as per POWO; . Calceolaria hypericina from UCBG-GS23032022-2: 3 very high res. images. Calceolaria hypericina a native of Chile, photographed from University of California Botanical Garden, 26-6-2008 To me…

  • Primula species- Bum La Pass, Arunachal Pradesh, 4,600 m

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    Primula from Arunchal Pradesh: 7 images. This Primula species was found at Bum La Pass, Arunachal Pradesh, at an altitude of 4,600 m. I had earlier assumed it to be Primula primulina, but that doesn’t look like the right ID. Primula minutissima has also been suggested, but since there is a distinct flowering stem…

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