• Alocasia cuprea (Cultivated- USA)

    Alocasia cuprea K.Koch, Berliner Klin. Wochenschr. 4: 141 1861. (syn: Alocasia metallica (K.Koch) Hook. [Illegitimate]; Caladium cupreum K.Koch & C.D.Bouché [Invalid]; Caladium metallicum K.Koch; Caladium veitchii Hend. ex Hook.f.; Gonatanthus cupreus K.Koch [Invalid]); Borneo (Sabah) as per WCSP;   Araceae for ID : Conservatory : Atlanta Botanical Garden : Atlanta,…

  • Psammisia ecuadorensis (Cultivated- USA)

    Psammisia ecuadorensis Hoerold, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 42: 308 1909. (syn: Psammisia kraenzliniana Hoerold; Psammisia puberula Hoerold); Ecuador as per Catalogue of Life;   Plant for ID : Conservatory : Atlanta Botanical Garden : Atlanta, Georgia : 29NOV18 : AK-36 : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) Plant seen inside…

  • Begonia bipinnatifida (Cultivated- USA)

    Begonia bipinnatifida J.J.Sm., Bull. Dép. Agric. Indes Néerl. 2: 47 1906.; New Guinea as per WCSP;   Begonia Species for ID : Conservatory : Atlanta Botanical Garden : Atlanta, Georgia : 26NOV18 : AK-16 : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1)  Plant seen inside the conservatory during my visit in October….

  • Tailed Jay on Ixora species

      SYMBIOSIS : 1205 : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) Attaching a collage of Tailed Jay visiting flowers of Ixora Sp

  • Tree facts

    Fwd: Tree facts : 1 post by 1 author. https://starofmysore.com/tag/tree-facts/ https://starofmysore.com/tag/peace-lily/ I have provided link for my latest articles  

  • Anisadenia saxatilis

    Anisadenia saxatilis Wall. ex Meisn., Pl. Vasc. Gen. 96 1838. (syn: Anisadenia khasyana Griff.); India (Uttar Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya), Sikkim, Nepal, Bhutan, N-Thailand, Myanmar [Burma] (Chin, Shan), China (Yunnan) as per Catalogue of Life; Leafy shoots simple, erect, 15-25cm, stems subglabrous.leaves ± clustered at top of stems…

  • Anisadenia

    Anisadenia saxatilis Wall. ex Meisn.

  • Thumbnails in efi site on mobile

    Thumbnails in efi site on mobile : Thumbnails in efi site on mobile can be seen in quite large size on enlarging, without opening them on clicking.It was a great surprise to me. It becomes really easy to browse in efi site, when comparing with efi posts in mail, for validation etc….

  • Dioscorea species- Godda, Jharkhand

      For ID25112018RK1 : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1)  Kindly help in identification of this. It is a root Local name-Ber-alli Date-22nd November, 2018 Place-Godda, Jharkhand Dioscorea.  

  • Brugmansia ‘Charles Grimaldi’

    Brugmansia ‘Charles Grimaldi’;   Brugmansia Species for ID : Atlanta Botanical Garden : Atlanta, Georgia : 26NOV18 : AK-20 : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2) Seen at the garden.  There were no open flowers. Leaves had a serrated margin. brugmansia ‘charles grimaldi’ Excellent! The leaves in my pictures do match…

  • Homalium cochinchinensis (Hong Kong)

    Homalium cochinchinensis (Lour.) Druce, Rep. Bot. Soc. Exch. Club Brit. Isles 1916: 628 1917. (syn: Astranthus cochinchinensis Lour.; Blakwellia chinensis Lindl. ex Steud.; Blakwellia cochinchinensis (Lour.) R. Br. ex J. O. Voigt; Blakwellia fagifolia Lindl. & Trans.; Blakwellia grandiflora Lindl. ex Loudon; Blakwellia laureiri Benth.; Blakwellia padiflora Lindl.; Blakwellia padifolia…

  • Annonaceae member- Auroville Botanical Garden

    Miliusa eriocarpa? : 10 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2) – around 800 kb each. Found in Auroville Botanical Garden. Seems matching. I am not convinced with this id based on these two images as per flowersofindia biotik http://www.plantekey.com/plants/annonaceae/miliusa-eriocarpa researchgate Book link 1 It is Polyalthia species only We should…

  • Phalaenopsis wilsonii

    Phalaenopsis wilsonii Rolfe, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1909: 65 1909. (syn: Doritis wilsonii (Rolfe) T.Yukawa & K.Kita; Kingidium wilsonii (Rolfe) O.Gruss & Roellke; Phalaenopsis chuxiongensis F.Y.Liu; Phalaenopsis minor F.Y.Liu; Phalaenopsis wilsonii f. azurea Z.J.Liu & Z.Z.Ru; Polychilos wilsonii (Rolfe) Shim); S. China to N. Indo-China as per WCSP; China South-Central;…

  • Gentiana pringlei

    Gentiana pringlei Mohd SHABIR, Priyanka AGNIHOTRI, Jay Krishan TIWARI Tariq HUSAIN, Taiwania 63(4): 356-359, 2018 ; Fwd: New Gentiana additions to flora of India : 6 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (2)- 6 MB & 1 MB.  A new species and a new record of Gentiana from India have been…

  • Gentiana aperta

    Gentiana aperta Maxim., Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg III, 27: 500 1881. (syn: Gentiana maximowiczii Kanitz; Varasia aperta (Maxim.) J. Soják);   China (NE-Qinghai, NW-Gansu) as per Catalogue of Life; Fwd: New Gentiana additions to flora of India : 6 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (2)- 6 MB & 1 MB. …

  • Cyptotrama asprata

    Cyptotrama asprata (Berk.) Redhead & Ginns 1980 (Syn: Agaricus aspratus Berk. 1847; Armillaria asprata (Berk.) Petch 1910; Lepiota asprata (Berk.) Sacc. 1887; Mastocephalus aspratus (Berk.) Kuntze 1891; Xerula asprata (Berk.) Aberdeen 1962; Xerulina asprata (Berk.) Pegler 1972);         Cyptotrama asperata submission : 7 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (4)- around…

  • Ziziphus oxyphylla

    Ziziphus oxyphylla Edgew., Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 20: 43 1846. (syn: Ziziphus acuminata Royle); , Iran (S-Iran), Afghanistan (Kunar / Nuristan, Paktia / Khost), Pakistan (Baluchistan, N.W.Frontier Prov., Pakistani Punjab, Swat, Hazara, Murree, Rawalpindi, Jhelum), Jammu & Kashmir (Kashmir), NW-India (Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab), Nepal as per Catalogue…

  • Blumea megacephala

    Blumea megacephala (Randeria) C.T.Chang & C.H.Yu ex Y.Ling, 11 1979. (syn: Blumea riparia var. megacephala Randeria); China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang), Taiwan, Ryukyu Isl. (Yaeyama Isl.), Vietnam, Java, India (Nagaland) as per Catalogue of Life; SK1595 23 Nov 2018 : 3 posts by 2 authors….

  • Maesa montana ?

    Maesa montana A. DC., Prodr. 8: 79 1844. (syn: Baeobotrys indica Wall.; Maesa argentea var. kwangsiensis Hand.-Mazz.; Maesa castaneifolia Mez; Maesa henryi Hu; Maesa martinii H. Lév.) ?;  China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Sichuan, Yunnan), Taiwan, SE-Tibet, India, Myanmar [Burma], Thailand, Bhutan, Darjeeling, Nepal, Laos, Vietnam as per Catalogue of…