Mycena species- Phulchoki, Lalitpur, Nepal

  SK 2673 18 July 2020 – Mycophyta : 7 posts by 3 authors. 3 images- 6 to 7 mb each. Location: Phulchoki, Lalitpur, Nepal Date: 20 June  2020 Altitude: 2215 m. Habitat : Wild Mycena Mycena vulgaris (Pers.) P.Kumm. ??  I think difficult to say with only images as per https://www.biodiversity.no/Pages/172970/ https://www.biodiversity.no/Pages/172970/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mycena_vulgaris https://mushroomobserver.org/name/show_name/3129 I tried […]

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Hosta sieboldiana var. sieboldiana (Introduced- USA)

Hosta sieboldiana var. sieboldiana (syn: Funkia cucullata Witte; Funkia fortunei Baker; Funkia glauca Siebold ex Miq.; Funkia glauca var. cucullata (Witte) Miq.; Funkia latifolia var. sinensis Miq.; Funkia maculata Siebold ex Miq.; Funkia ovata var. albopicta Miq.; Funkia ovata f. latifolia Regel; Funkia ovata f. marginata (Miq.) Baker; Funkia sieboldiana var. bracteata Miq.; Funkia sieboldiana […]

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Lentinus species- Phulchoki, Lalitpur, Nepal

  SK 2675 18 July 2020 – Mycophyta : 6 posts by 3 authors. 2 images- 6 & 7 mb each. Location: Phulchoki, Lalitpur, Nepal Date: 20 June  2020 Altitude: 2215 m. Habitat : Wild Could be Lentinellus Lentinellus ursinus (Fr.) Kühner only listed!  I think looks different from Lentinellus ursinus as per https://www.messiah.edu/Oakes/fungi_on_wood/gilled%20fungi/species%20pages/Lentinellus%20ursinus.htm https://www.mushroomexpert.com/lentinellus_ursinus.html https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/118231-Lentinellus-ursinus http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF//species/Lentinellus_ursinus.html http://ncrfungi.uark.edu/species/70_lentinellusUrsinus/lentinellusUrsinus.html […]

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Garcinia pushpangadaniana

Garcinia pushpangadaniana T. Sabu, N. Mohanan, Krishnaraj & Shareef, Phytotaxa 116: 52 (2013) ; SW India as per POWO; India (Kerala, Tamil Nadu) as per Catalogue of Life;   Garcinia pushpangadaniana : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2) – around 800 kb each. Garcinia pushpangadaniana  T.Sabu, N.Mohanan, Krishnaraj & Shareef (CLUSIACEAE) Photo from Kadalar Forest, […]

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Garcinia wightii

Conservation status- Vunerable as per Wikipedia; Garcinia wightii T.Anderson, Fl. Brit. India 1: 265 1874. ; India (Tamil Nadu, Kerala) as per Catalogue of Life;  SW India as per POWO; Evergreen trees or sometimes rheophytes, up to 10 m tall, wood moderately hard, whitish brown, bark dark brown, pustular, branchlets opposite, quadrangular, glabrous, internodes short, […]

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Fissidens species- Chalnakhel, Pharping, Nepal

SK 2648 03 July 2020 : 16 posts by 3 authors. 2 images- 6 mb each. Location: Chalnakhel, Pharping Date: 28 June 2020 Elevation: 1500 m. Habitat: Wild Sir, may be Blechnum app.  Does not look like Blechnum spp.  Is it some Huperzia sp. ? I am not quite sure if it is even a lycophyte. Although […]

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Dicranella species- Nagarkot, Nepal

SK 2672 17 July 2020 : 7 posts by 2 authors. 3 images- 7 mb each. Location: Nagarkot, Nepal Altitude: 2120 m. Date: 15 July 2020 Habitat : Wild Bryophyta ?? It may be Dicranella sp. Please check morphology, anatomy, peristomal teeth, spores and other details. Compare with other species for species identification.  

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Laccaria proxima ?

Laccaria proxima (Boud.) Pat. (syn: Clitocybe proxima Boud.; Laccaria laccata var. proxima (Boud.) Maire; Laccaria procera G.M. Taylor & P.K. Buchanan);   SK 2661 12 July 2020 – Mycophyta : 7 posts by 3 authors. 3 images- 6 mb each. Location: Phulchoki, Lalitpur, Nepal Date: 20 June  2020 Altitude: 2215 m. Habitat : Wild Laccaria Laccaria proxima […]

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Sarracenia leucophylla (Atlanta, USA)

Sarracenia leucophylla Raf., Fl. Ludov. 14 1817. (syn: Sarracenia drummondii Croom; Sarracenia leucophylla var. alba (R. Hogg & T. Moore) S. Mc Pherson & D. E. Schnell; Sarracenia leucophylla f. viridescens S. Mc Pherson & D. E. Schnell; Sarracenia undulata Decne.);    USA (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina) as per Catalogue of Life;   Pitcher […]

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Aubrieta deltoidea (Switzerland)

Aubrieta deltoidea (L.) DC., Syst. Nat. 2: 294 1821. (syn: Alyssum deltoideum L.; Aubrieta floribunda Spach; Aubrieta graeca Griseb.; Aubrieta integrifolia Fisch. & C.A.Mey.; Crucifera aubrieta E.H.L.Krause; Draba hesperidiflora Lam.; Farsetia deltoidea (L.) R.Br.; Farsetia italica Ces., Pass. & Gibelli; Vesicaria deltoidea (L.) Poir.) as per POWO; Native to: East Aegean Is., Greece, Kriti, Sicilia, […]

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Entoloma species?- Phulchoki, Lalitpur, Nepal

  SK 2677 19 July 2020 – Mycophyta : 5 posts by 2 authors. 3 images- 7 mb each. Location: Phulchoki, Lalitpur, Nepal Date: 20 June  2020 Altitude: 2162 m. Habitat : Wild Could be Entoloma, but I am not sure Entoloma subcostatum G.F.Atk. is listed in book but looks different. Looks some matching with Entoloma rugosum (Malençon) […]

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Mycena species- Phulchoki, Lalitpur, Nepal

  SK 2678 19 July 2020 – Mycophyta : 5 posts by 2 authors. 3 images- 6 to 7 mb each. Location: Phulchoki, Lalitpur, Nepal Date: 20 June  2020 Altitude: 2162 m. Habitat : Wild Mycena spp. Same as yesterday or different?  

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Eugenia mooniana

Eugenia mooniana Wight, Ill. Ind. Bot. 2: 13 1841. (syn: Eugenia concinna Thwaites; Eugenia thwaitesii Duthie); Sri Lanka, S-India as per Catalogue of Life; Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka as per POWO; Large shrubs. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, caudate, base acute or obtuse, glabrous, to 8 x 3.5 cm. Flowers 5 mm across, in axillary and terminal few-flowered […]

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