• Youngia japonica ?

    . SK 2915 06 July 2021: 6 very high res. images. Location: Kathmandu, Central Nepal Altitude: 1700 m. Date : 05 July 2021 Habitat : Wild Youngia sp. ?? I am yet to find any close comparable ID. So far I could get similar leaves at https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/2610886312 But phyllaries here different it goes…

  • Ternstroemia luteoflora (Hong Kong)

    Ternstroemia luteoflora L.K. Ling, Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 50(1): 7, 183–184 (addenda) 1998. ; China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, SE-Yunnan) as per Catalogue of Life;   SK1418 07 Sep 2018 : 10 posts by 5 authors. Attachments (4) – around 400 kb each. Location: Victoria Peak, Hong Kong  Date:…

  • Ilex memecylifolia (Hong Kong)

    Ilex memecylifolia Champ. ex Benth., Hooker’s J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 4: 328–329 1852. (syn: Ilex memecylifolia var. oblongifolia Champ. ex Benth.); China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Jiangxi, Xinjiang), N-Vietnam as per Catalogue of Life;     SK1405 03 Sep 2018 : 7 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (4) Location: Victoria Peak,…

  • Ophiorrhiza pumila (Hong Kong)

    Ophiorrhiza pumila Champ. ex Benth., Hooker’s J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 4: 169 1852. (syn: Ophiorrhiza aureolina f. qiongyaensis H.S.Lo; Ophiorrhiza humilis Y.C.Tseng; Ophiorrhiza inflata Maxim.; Ophiorrhiza pumila var. inflata (Maxim.) Masam.); China South-Central; China Southeast; Hainan; Japan; Nansei-shoto; Taiwan; Vietnam as per Catalogue of Life; SK1420 08 Sep 2018…

  • Ophiorrhiza treutleri

    Ophiorrhiza treutleri Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 83 1880.; Assam; East Himalaya as per Catalogue of Life; Stems 10-35cm, herbaceous, slightly fleshy crisped white hirsute. Leaves equal, elliptic, 3-10 x 1.5-5cm, acute, base cuneate, thinly pilose above, paler beneath with prominent crisped pubescent veins; stipules spreading, ovate acuminate often split,…

  • Clerodendrum species ?- Bhutan

      230818SP1 ID? : 8 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2) Location: Bhutan, 1822m Captured: 12th May 2018 Thanks, …, I hope this also wild. Also mention place in Bhutan in your future postings along with giving unique subject to each post.  Clerodendrum ??? C.trichotomum  ?? I guess leaves of…

  • Hedyotis leschenaultiana

    Hedyotis leschenaultiana DC., Prodr. 4: 422 1830. (syn: Hedyotis anamalayana (Gamble) R.S.Rao & Hemadri; Hedyotis leschenaultiana var. leschenaultiana ; Hedyotis sisaparensis Gage; Hedyotis stylosa R.Br. ex G.Don; Knoxia wightiana Schltdl. ex Hook.f.; Oldenlandia anamalayana Gamble; Oldenlandia sisaparensis (Gage) Gamble; Oldenlandia stylosa (R.Br. ex G.Don) Kuntze); India as per WCSP; Common…

  • List of flowers most butterflies visit

      Fwd: SYMBIOSIS : FLOWER 1/ BUTTERFLY : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) As you all know I am in the process of documenting butterfly species visiting different flowers. I am doing it for last 12 years.It all started on the Chandan tree ( Santalum album ) in…

  • Mussaenda pubescens (Hong Kong)

    Mussaenda pubescens Dryand., Hortus Kew. 1: 372 1810. (syn: Mussaenda acutiflora Bartl. ex DC.; Mussaenda bodinieri H.Lév. & Vaniot; Mussaenda pubescens var. alba X.F.Deng & D.X.Zhang; Mussaenda pubescens f. clematidiflora Chun ex H.H.Hsue & H.Wu; Mussaenda pubescens f. pubescens ); SE. China to Vietnam, Taiwan as per WCSP; China Southeast;…

  • Chirita sinensis (Hong Kong)

    Chirita sinensis Lindl., Edwards’s Bot. Reg. 30: t. 59 1844. (syn: Chirita dryas Dunn; Chirita sinensis var. angustifolia Dunn; Chirita sinensis var. bodinieri H. Lév.; Didymocarpus sinensis (Lindl.) H. Lév.; Roettlera sinensis (Lindl.) Kuntze);    Southern Asia as per Catalogue of Life;   SK1428 10 Sep 2018 : 4 posts by…

  • Calanthe × dominyi

    Calanthe × dominyi Lindl., Gard. Chron. 1858: 4 1858. ; . SE. China to Temp. E. Asia: China Southeast, Japan, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan as per POWO; . Common name: Dominy’s Calanthe . ID Request-Munnar-PKA2 : 7 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (4) This herb was also spotted in Shola forest near Munnar. Date/Time:…

  • Bulbophyllum roxburghii

    Bulbophyllum roxburghii (Lindl.) Rchb.f., Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 263 1861. (syn: Aerides radiata Roxb.; Bulbophyllum sikkimense (King & Pantl.) J.J.Sm.; Cirrhopetalum roxburghii Lindl.; Cirrhopetalum sikkimense King & Pantl.; . E. Nepal to Bangladesh: Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, Nepal as per POWO; . Assam; Bangladesh; East Himalaya; Nepal as per Catalogue…

  • 91. Efloraofindia website updated upto 31st August’18

    Efloraofindia website updated upto 31st August’18- more than 12,000 species : 5 posts by 3 authors. 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 3,04,200 messages…

  • Asparagus species- Ahmedabad & Melghat

      ID Ahmedabad 29/8/2018 : 10 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (2)- 2 Mb each.  Which creeper is this? Does it flower? asparagus sp. yes it will flower. very small white one followed by green then red fruits. not a show piece though in that plastic trough you have it…

  • Parasassafras confertiflorum

    Parasassafras confertiflorum (Meisn.) D.G. Long, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 41(3): 513–518, f. 2 1984. (syn: Actinodaphne confertiflora Meisn.; Jozoste confertiflora Kuntze; Litsea confertiflora (Meisn.) Kosterm.; Litsea shweliensis W.W. Sm.; Neocinnamomum confertiflorum (Meisn.) Kosterm.); China (Yunnan), Bhutan, India, Myanmar [Burma] as per Catalogue of Life;   Which Parassafras ? help…

  • Parasassafras

    Parasassafras confertiflorum (Meisn.) D.G. Long  

  • Brassica nigra

    Brassica nigra (L.) K.Koch, Deutschl. Fl. ed. 3, 4: 713 1833. (syn: Brassica nigra var. abyssinica A. Braun; Brassica nigra var. bracteolata (Fisch. & C.A. Mey.) Spach; Brassica nigra var. nigra ; Brassica nigra var. torulosa (Pers.) Alef.; Melanosinapis nigra (L.) Calest.; Mutarda nigra (L.) Bernh.; Mutarda nigra (L.) Bernh.; Sinapis nigra…

  • Ipomoea muelleri

    Ipomoea muelleri Benth.; . Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, South Australia, Queensland) as per Catalogue of Life; . ARJUL61 Convolvulaceae plant for ID : 5 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (3). Found next to a shallow water body Creeper. Bangalore July 2014 Ipomoea / Argyeria ? Plant identified as Ipomoea marginata….

  • Eriobotrya bengalensis

    Eriobotrya bengalensis (Roxb.) Hook.f., The flora of British India 371 1878 (syn: Eriobotrya bengalensis (Roxb.) Kurz (ambiguous synonym); Mespilus bengalensis Roxb.; Photinia bengalensis (Roxb.) Wall. ex G. Don; Pyrus bengalensis (Roxb.) M.F.Fay & Christenh.); . Cambodia, India, Laos, Myanmar [Burma] (Chin), Sikkim, Thailand, Vietnam, Sumatra (incl. Bangka Isl.), peninsular Malaysia,…