Geranium molle ?

Geranium molle ?;   Plant for ID :: Bratislava :: EU-ARKNOV01: 6 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (2) This plant was seen by the roadside in Bratislava, Slovakia in May 2016. Any clue to the ID? looks like Geranium. can’t tell you more. sorry Probably Geranium molle

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Bryophyte at Munnar, Kerala

  id please munnar,kerala 22oct,2015 : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) last year october 22, 2015 id of this bryophyte please As the bryophytes are growing in deceive patches it is almost difficult them in natural habit and habitats. So for the identification of mosses it is necessary to see the leaf structure: midrib, […]

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Fumaria capreolata (Introduced)

Fumaria capreolata L., Sp. Pl. 701 1753. (syn: Fumaria capreolata var. albiflora Hammar; Fumaria capreolata var. atrosanguinea Rouy & Fouc; Fumaria capreolata subsp. babingtonii (Pugsley) Sell; Fumaria capreolata var. babingtonii Pugsley; Fumaria capreolata var. condensata Ball; Fumaria capreolata var. platycalyx (Pomel) Pugsley; Fumaria capreolata var. provincialis Rouy & Fouc; Fumaria capreolata var. speciosa (Jord.) Hammar; […]

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Lobelia chinensis

Lobelia chinensis Lour., Fl. Cochinch. 514 1790. (Syn: Dortmanna campanuloides (Thunb.) Kuntze; Dortmanna chinensis (Lour.) Kuntze; Dortmanna radicans (Thunb.) Kuntze; Isolobus caespitosus (Blume) Hassk.; Isolobus campanuloides (Thunb.) A.DC.; Isolobus kerii A.DC.; Isolobus radicans (Thunb.) A.DC.; Isolobus roxburghianus A.DC.; Lobelia caespitosa Blume; Lobelia campanuloides Thunb.; Lobelia chinensis var. albiflora (E.Wimm.) E.Wimm.; Lobelia chinensis f. lactiflora (Hisauti) […]

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Hatoo (Narkanda, Shimla, H.P.)

Hatoo (Narkanda, Shimla, H.P.) AT OCT2016/12 : 13 posts by 6 authors. Attachments (4) Hatoo is a place frequently mentioned in Collett’s ‘FLORA SIMLENSIS’. It is about 75km away from Shimla (H.P.) on Rampur road and rich in plant biodiversity. It was a nice experience to visit Hatoo alongwith Dr. Nidhan Singh and his students. […]

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Achyranthes longifolia

Achyranthes longifolia Makino, Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 28: 180 1914.; Achyranthes longifolia (Makino) Makino (Amaranthaceae): An Angiosperm New to India : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (1) – art%3A10.1007%2Fs40009-016-0515-4.pdf My article “Achyranthes longifolia (Makino) Makino (Amaranthaceae): An Angiosperm New to India” was published in National Academy Science Letters · October 2016 Please find below link for article  & attachment  […]

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Churnaka

Identification of plant species mentioned in Valmiki Ramayana : 2 posts by 2 authors. I am not able to identify the plant “churnaka” mentioned in Valmiki Ramayana:https://www.valmiki.iitk.ac.in/content?field_kanda_tid=4&language=dv&field_sarga_value=1&field_sloka_value=79&अङ्कोलाश्च कुरण्टाश्च चूर्णकाः पारिभद्रकाः। Can anybody please help me out? Please take a look into Prin. V. S. Apte’s The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary … it is some species of silk-cotton […]

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Geranium species- Bratislava, Slovakia

  Plant for ID :: Bratislava :: EU-ARKOCT49 : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2) Seen this plant in the Bratislava castle grounds, Slovakia. Can it be some Geranium species? Geranium, possibly G. dissectum.  

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Artemisia species- Alibag, Maharastra

Artemisia sieversiana:   Local marathi name: Dawana At Alibag, Maharashtra A feedback from …: I have just commented on the Artemisia from Nubra Valley that I consider might be Artemisia sierversiana– it is clearly very different to this rather strange looking plant from Maharastra – which clearly is not A.sieversiana which Hooker gives a distribution of […]

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Acacia tanjorensis

Acacia tanjorensis “Ragup., Thoth. & Mahad.” ; MS/23/10/2016 – 7 – Request for Id of a tree : 8 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (3)  I request the ID of the tree. Photographs attached herewith. No suggestion from my side. Acacia species ? Acacia ho sakta hai. Yes Accacia sp, may be A. senegal ??????? Unfortunately you […]

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Kalanchoe poincarei (Cultivated)

Kalanchoe poincarei R.-Hamet & Perrier, Bull. Géogr. Bot. 23: 148–151 1913. (syn: Bryophyllum mortagei (Ray.-Hamet & Perr.) G.E. Wickens ; Bryophyllum poincarei (Raym.-Hamet & H. Perrier) R. Govaerts (ambiguous synonym) ; Bryophyllum poincarei (Raym.-Hamet & H. Perrier) V. V. Byalt (ambiguous synonym) ; Kalanchoe mortagei R.-Hamet & H. Perrier; Kalanchoe poincarei var. mortagei (R.-Hamet & H. […]

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Plectranthus ciliatus (Cultivated- Kenya)

Plectranthus ciliatus E.Mey., Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr. 227 1838. (syn: Plectranthus natalensis Gürke); S. Africa as per WCSP;   Garden Plant For ID : Kenya : 05OCT16 : AK-3 : 6 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2) Cultivated, garden plant seen in a resort. Unfortunately, the picture of the flowers is not very clear. Orthosiphon species […]

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Identifying orchid hotspots for biodiversity conservation in Laos

Identifying orchid hotspots for biodiversity conservation in Laos : 3 posts by 3 authors. Please find one of our new publication on Orchids of Vang Vieng at the link below. It is freely downloadable. Hope you will like it. —- Citation: Kumar, P., S.W. Gale, A. Schuiteman, S. Bouamanivong & G.A. Fischer(2016). Identifying orchid hotspots […]

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Premna milleflora

Premna milleflora C.B.Clarke, Fl. Brit. India 4: 576 1885. (syn: Gumira milleflora (C.B.Clarke) Kuntze); Tree about 60-80 ft tall, trunk about 7 ft girth. Bark greenish grey, blaze light, dun mottled with evenly distributed coarse strands of dark brown. Branchlets subtere or obtusely quadrangular, young parts pubescent, glabrous when mature. Leaves simple opposite, ovate-lanceolate, ovate, […]

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Luffa graveolens

Luffa graveolens Roxb., Fl. Ind. ed. 1832 3: 716 1832.;     Luffa graveolens Roxb. (Cucurbitaceae) from Pantnagar : DSR_Oct. 2016_3/3 : 4 posts by 3 authors. This cucurbit was seen along cultivated fields in Pantnagar area. Identified as Luffa graveolens Roxb., it also resemble to L. saccata, a new Australian species published by Telford […]

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Cuphea procumbens (Introduced)

Cuphea procumbens Ortega, Nov. Pl. Descr. Dec. 17 1797. (syn: Cuphea bilimekii Koehne; Cuphea erecta Hoffmanns.; Cuphea palustris Hemsl.; Cuphea procumbens Cav.; Cuphea purpurea hort. ex Lem.; Parsonsia bilimekii (Koehne) Standl.; Parsonsia procumbens (Cav.) A. A. Heller); C. America, naturalised around Kathmandu as per Annotated checklist of Flowering plants of Nepal; Mexico (Aguascalientes, Ciudad de […]

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