• Aloe petricola (Muscat, Oman)

    Aloe petricola Pole-Evans, Trans. Roy. Soc. South Africa 5: 707 1917.; . Northern Provinces as per POWO; .   Ornamental Aloe For ID : Muscat : 05FEB15 : AK-15 : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3) Pictures taken on 26th Dec,14 at a plant nursery. The multi-colored flowers were new…

  • Symphoricarpos species- Central Park, Romford, UK

    SK 3330 10 February 2022: 5 very high res. images. Location: Central Park, Romford, UK Altitude:  40 m. Date: 10 February 2022 Habit : Cultivated Symphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus x microphyllus x orbiculatus ?? This is certainly Symphoricarpos but I am not sure from the photos which one. I attach a photo…

  • Mahonia x media ‘Charity’ ?

    SK 3329 10 February 2022: 7 very high res. images. Location: Central Park, Romford, UK Altitude: 40 m. Date: 10 February 2022 Habit : Cultivated Mahonia aquifolium (Pursh) Nutt. ?? To me appears close to images at Mahonia napaulensis I guess Berberis napaulensis (DC.) Spreng. has got no distribution in UK unless it is introduced and cultivated….

  • Orthophytum harleyi (Cultivated)

    Orthophytum harleyi Leme & M.Machado,  J. Bromeliad Soc. 56: 108 (2006); . Brazil (Bahia) as per POWO; . 121211 BRS 265: Pl. confrim the id of the bromeliad sp.? Location: Maravalam Garden, Peelamedu Date; 10.12.2011 Habitat: Garden Habit: Shrub. looks like Aloe juvenna   I was thinking of Aloe spinosissima but…

  • Western Ghats- plant for id

    id please: 1 image. i am new to this group, i will be glad if you alll can help me with identification of some plants. Location: Western Ghats, India elevation: 1300m I think it is very very difficult to identify with such images. You have to post detailed images. Pl….

  • Glossostigma elatinoides (Australia)

    Glossostigma elatinoides (Benth.) Benth. ex Hook. fil., Fl. Nov.-Zel. 1: 189 1853. (syn: Tricholoma elatinoides Benth.); . SE. Australia, New Zealand as per POWO; . Glossostigma Elatinoides: 1 high res. image. elatinoides. You will notice that the juvenile leaves (a couple in this photo but not many) do resemble diandrum a bit…

  • Rajasthan- herb near Dholpur

    Dholpur, January 2022 :: Prostrate herb for ID :: ARK2022-056: 3 high res. images. This was clicked near Dholpur, Rajasthan on the banks of the Chambal river in January 2022 Requested to please ID.  

  • Myrtama

    Myrtama elegans (Royle) Ovcz. & Kinzikaeva (Central Asia to Pakistan and W. China: Pakistan, Tadzhikistan, Tibet, West Himalaya, Xinjiang as per POWO)           . BSI Flora of India with description (Distribution): Myrtama elegans (Royle) Ovcz. & Kinz. (India: On mountain slopes, ravines and stream borders between 3000 and 4500 m. Jammu & Kashmir…

  • Euphorbia vajravelui

    Euphorbia vajravelui Binojk. & N.P.Balakr., Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 63: 229 1991.; . SW. India as per POWO; Stout trees to 4 m tall; stems thick, succulent, flattened or 3-angled, 3-4 cm broad, glabrous; angles armed with paired black spines, 1-10 mm long. Leaves minute, 5mm long, ovate. Cyathea solitary…

  • Senecio ludens

    Senecio ludens C. B. Cl., Comp. Ind. 199. 199 1876. (syn: Doronicum walkeri Arn.); . India (Kerala, Tamil Nadu), Sri Lanka as per POWO; . Clarke Comp. Ind. 199 ; herbaceous, hirsute puberulous scaberulous or glabrate, stem strict or slender, leaves polymorphous simple or more often lyrate-pinnatifid with broadly auricled bases or petioles,…

  • Aloe humilis ?

    Aloe humilis (L.) Mill., Gard. Dict. Abr. ed. 6 10 1771. (syn: Aloe acuminata Haw.; Aloe echinata Willd.; Aloe humilis var. acuminata Baker; Aloe humilis var. candollei Baker; Aloe humilis var. incurva Haw.; Aloe humilis var. macilenta Baker; Aloe incurva (Haw.) Haw.; Aloe macilenta (Baker) G.Nicholson; Aloe perfoliata var. humilis L.; Aloe perfoliata var. suberecta Aiton; Aloe suberecta (Aiton) Haw.; Aloe subtuberculata Haw.; Aloe tuberculata Haw.; Aloe verrucosospinosa All.; Aloe virens Haw.; Aloe virens var. macilenta Baker; Catevala humilis (L.) Medik.; Haworthia…

  • Impatiens williamsii

    Impatiens williamsii Hara, J. Jap. Bot. 47: 142 1972; . Nepal as per POWO; . Impatiens williamsii H. Hara: 1 pdf- 4.6 Mb Very happy to share the journal on Impatiens williamsii H.Hara, endemic to west Nepal of Jumla district which was rediscovered after 66 years. Congratulations saroj sir Congratulations sir🎉🙏…

  • ‘Saarthi’ ‘सारथि’ of eFloraofIndia

    Dinesh Valke– ‘Saarthi’ ‘सारथि’ of eFloraofIndia . . Saarthi ‘सारथि’- Title for Sh. Dinesh Valke: Sh. Dinesh Valke’s achievements have been enormous not only for efloraofindia but equally also elsewhere. Mentioning below, some of them as quoted by some of our team members: He has been a pioneer in giving/ implementing ideas for bringing…

  • Where to go for ferns in Himalayas ?

    Ferns in himalayas: I am planning a family trip to the himalayas (for 5-6 days in 2nd half of March). Please suggest a region where I may find a significant variety of ferns different from those found in the plains (in this season). there, which part of the Himalaya do you…

  • Karnataka- tree at Lal Bagh, Bangalore

    Tree for ID from Lal Bagh Bangalore-GS05022022-5: (Mixed thread): 3 very high res. images. Please help with the ID of tree photographed from Lal Bagh Bangalore, 29-5-2015.  

  • Exacum tetragonum var. grande

    Exacum tetragonum var. grande (Klack.) Shahina & Nampy, Int. J. Advanced Res. 4(3): 1677 (2016); . Gentianaceae week: Exacum tetragonum : 4 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (3). I am very happy to see you in eflora. Hope you will present a excellent week of this family. Exacum tetragonum collected from…

  • Eriocaulon species- Bababudangiri, Karnataka

    Eriocaulon sp for ID from Below Bababudangiri Peak-GS09022022-4: 5 high res. images. Eriocaulon sp for ID photographed from Below Bababudangiri Peak, Karnataka 26-9-2015 These are very difficult to id without Expert help. Pl. try comparative images at Eriocaulon and Eriocaulon sedgwickii Fyson  

  • Bolbitis beddomei

    Bolbitis beddomei Fraser-Jenk. & Gandhi, Indian Fern J. 32: 185 (2015) (syn: Bolbitis subcrenata var. prolifera (C.Presl) Hennipman; Bolbitis subcrenatoides Fraser-Jenk.; Campium proliferum C.Presl; Poecilopteris hookeriana T.Moore; Polybotrya prolifera (C.Presl) Mett.; Acrostichum proliferum Hook.); . S. India as per POWO; . fern for id ? Bolbitis beddomei: 3 images. Date- Feb 10 2022. Location- Amboli-  Western ghats, south Maharashtra….

  • Bolbitis feeiana

    Bolbitis feeiana (Copel.) Fraser-Jenk. & Gandhi, Indian Fern J. 35: 114 (2018) (syn: Campium feeianum Copel.); W. India as per POWO; Bolbitis presiliana ?: 5 images. Location: Amboli – Western ghats , South Maharashtra. Habitat: Along rocky stream. date- Feb 22. Habitus: herb. Single/ in small colonies. Fronds: Rachis scaly at…