• Melochia nodiflora (Introduced)

    Melochia nodiflora Sw., Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 97 1788. (syn: Melochia carpinifolia J.C. Wendl.; Melochia conglobata Sessé & Moc.; Mougeotia nodiflora (Sw.) Kunth; Riedlea nodiflora (Sw.) DC.; Visenia nodiflora (Sw.) Spreng.); Bahamas, Cayman Isl., Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Virgin Isl. (Guana, St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas, Tortola), Lesser…

  • Oreocome candollei ?

    SK548 07 JUN-2017:ID : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3) Location: Lepchaghat, Darjeeling, India Date: 24 May  2017 Altitude: 7200 ft. Apiaceae?  Pl. check with comparative images at Apiaceae Pl. check Oreocome candollei (Wall. ex DC.) Edgew. and related species like those in Checklist of Nepal.

  • Google storage

    Fwd: Storage! : 2 posts by 2 authors. 15 GB capacity is going to be full in Gmail. Any solution for this ? You’re out of storage space and will soon be unable to send or receive emails until you free up space or purchase additional storage. Either you have delete old mails…

  • Ficus callosa ?

    Ficus callosa ?;   ID 020617 GK 2 : 7 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2) – 1 Mb each. Please identify this Ficus plant that grows in laterite Soils of Kannur District of Kerala… no fruits are visible… leaf margin is slightly spinous or serrate.. It is very difficult to…

  • Colchicum autumnale (Germany)

    Colchicum autumnale L., Sp. Pl. 341 1753. (Syn: Bulbocodium antumnale (L.) Lapeyr.; Bulbocodium autumnale (L.) Lapeyr. …………….; Colchicum borisii Stef.; Colchicum bulgaricum Velen.; Colchicum commune Neck. [Illegitimate]; Colchicum crociflorum Sims; Colchicum doerfleri var. orientale Kitanov; Colchicum drenowskii Degen & Rech.f. ex Kitan.; Colchicum orientale Friv. ex Kunth; Colchicum pannonicum Griseb. &…

  • Crocus vernus (Germany/ UK)

    Crocus vernus (L.) Hill, Veg. Syst. 10: 1 1765. (syn: Crocus acutiflorus Seidl; Crocus albiflorus Kit. ex Schult.; Crocus appendiculatus A.Kern. ex Maw; Crocus montenegrinus A.Kern. ex Maw; Crocus parviflorus (J.Gay) E.H.L.Krause; Crocus pygmaeus Lojac.; Crocus sativus var. vernus L.; Crocus vilmae Fiala; Ixia vernalis Salisb.); . Alps to W. Balkan Peninsula: Austria, France,…

  • Carex gracilenta

    Carex gracilenta Boott ex Boeckeler, Linnaea 41: 185 1877. (syn: Carex duthiei C.B.Clarke; Carex infuscata var. gracilenta (Boott ex Boeckeler) P.C.Li); . E. Himalaya to China (W. & SW. Sichuan, NW. Yunnan): China South-Central, East Himalaya as per POWO; . Common name: Graceful Sedge, Slender Himalayan Sedge . Unid from Tawang: TQ-Tawang-07 : Attachments (2)….

  • Juncus species- Above Mcleodganj, Dharamshala, HP

    Juncus thomsonii ABJUL01/23 : 2 posts by 2 authors. 2 images. I found this flower growing on grass-like leaves and assumed it to be a grass. The light was low and breeze constant, so I did not take many pictures. Here are a couple though and I think this is…

  • Juncus species- Govindghat Ghangriya Trek, VOF, Uttarakhand

    VoF Week: Juncus thomsonii from Govindghat Ghangriya Trek: Juncus thomsonii from pls validate Very good photographs As the flower heads are more than one, it should be some other species as per keys at Flora of Pakistan Juncus thomsonii Buchenau ! As the flower heads are more than one, it should…

  • Pinalia bipunctata ?

    Pinalia bipunctata (Lindl.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 679 1891. (syn: Eria bipunctata Lindl.; Eria eberhardtii Gagnep.);   MS May, 2017/20 Orchidaceae for ID : 14 posts by 4 authors. Location : Thorangtlang, MizoramDate : 17-07-2010Habit : Epiphytic or lithophytic herb/orchidHabitat : Wild I think its Pinalia apertiflora…………….. This is…

  • Congratulations!- on completion of 10 year

    Congratulations!- on completion of 10 year : 16 posts by 5 authors. On the eve of our 10th anniversary I take the opportunity to thank and congratulate Mr Garg and all seniors who have worked tirelessly to help people all over the country in inculcating an active interest in their local…

  • Amanita species- Lonavala, Maharashtra

      Fungi for id no. 090617 sn1 : 5 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2) Can anyone help in identifying this fungi. could this be some Amanita sp. date/time:Aug17 location: aamby valley Rd., lonavala, pune habitat:wild other info:a lone fungi shooting out of a mud bank it doesn’t look like…

  • Raphanus jaunpurensis

    Raphanus jaunpurensis Masood et al, Int. J. Curr. Res. Biosci. Plant Biol. 4(6), 74-76 (2017); Fwd: Raphanus jaunpurensis Masood et al sp. nova : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (1) – Raphanus jaunpurensis.pdf For your kind perusal and necessary action Congrats, … References:

  • Eucharis amazonica

    Eucharis amazonica Linden ex Planch., J. Gén. Hort. 12: 1216 1857.;   AMAZON LILY: Sometime in 1991 I saw a beautiful white lily in one of the gardens at Pachmarhi. I did not know the name of that flower at that time. I saw the same flower at Brig S…

  • Veronica species- GHNP

      For ID 190609ET : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1) I took this flower  picture, 2800 metre level at Great Himalayan National Park on May12, 2009. Kindly give ID. Geranium i think I think some Veronica species    

  • Ribes glaciale

    Ribes glaciale Wall., Fl. Ind., ed. 1820 2: 513 1824. (syn: Ribes glaciale var. glandulosum Jancz.); Bhutan, Sikkim, N-India, Jammu & Kashmir (Kashmir), China (SE-Gansu, Henan, W-Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, NW-Yunnan), SE-Tibet, Pakistan (Kurram, Swat, Hazara), Pakistani Kashmir (Baltistan), Myanmar [Burma] (Chin, Kachin), Nepal as per Catalogue of Life;    VoF Week…

  • Microchirita sahyadriensis ?

    Microchirita sahyadriensis (Punekar & Lakshmin.) A.Weber & D.J.Middleton, Taxon 60: 779 2011. (syn: Chirita sahyadriensis Punekar & Lakshmin.) ?; .   Flora of Kaiga_ID_14092015 PK3 : 5 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (1) Pl see attached 1 pic for ID Date/Time-: 13/08/15   –    11:30 Location- Place, Altitude –…

  • Efloraofindia completing 10 years on 17.6.17

    Efloraofindia completing 10 years on 17.6.17 : 4 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (4) It is really difficult to describe the long journey of 10 years of Efloraofindia in a few paragraphs. It had all emotions of a pot boiler like joy, pain, satisfaction etc. It started with a commitment…

  • Efloraofindia page on Facebook

    Efloraofindia page on Facebook. : 2 posts by 2 authors. Efloraofindia page on Facebook has been created. Please like the page and invite as many friends as possible (from your friends list) to like the page. This will increase popularity of the group. Thanks, … Here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/efloraofindia/

  • Tinospora species- Mumbai

      ID27052017SH2 : 7 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1) For Id pl. This was a creeper in the mangroves which had grown on some other tree. I couldn’t get any picture of this creeper’s leaves.The leaves seen in the picture are of some other treeLocation – Mumbai (near one…