• Ligularia species- China

      SK363 02FEB-2017:ID : 5 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2) Location: China Date : 29 October 2014 Altitude : 100 ft. Senecio ….??? Pl. check comparative images at Ligularia Looks like but could not close on into the proper ID among the vast numbers of China. Yeah,  you are…

  • Astragalus nivalis

    Astragalus nivalis Kar. & Kir. (syn: Astragalus nathaliae V.V. Meffert; Astragalus orthanthoides Boriss.; Astragalus orthanthus Freyn; Astragalus thomsonianus Benth. ex Bunge; Tragacantha nivalis (Kar. & Kir.) Kuntze); Kazakhstan (Alma Ata, Chimkent, Dzhambul, Semipalatinsk), Tajikistan (Dushanbe), Kyrgyzstan, China (Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang), W-Tibet, NE-Afghanistan, Jammu & Kashmir (Ladakh, Zanskar), India (Himachal Pradesh) as…

  • Rhynchotechum

    Rhynchotechum ellipticum (Wall. ex Dietrich) A. DC.       Rhynchotechum nirijuliense Taram & D.Borah (North East India)   Rhynchotechum parviflorum Blume (East Himalaya, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Sulawesi, Vietnam as per POWO)   Rhynchotechum permolle (Nees) B.L. Burtt (S. India, Sri Lanka as per POWO)                 . BSI Flora of…

  • Nandi Hills- wilderness around Bangalore

    … wilderness around Bangalore : 3 posts by 2 authors. Wanted to know of nearest wilderness places around Bangalore (those which can be botanized in day’s trip). Nandi Hills would be a good option, in case you have not been there.   

  • 80th Tree Apprecation Walk at Rani Bagh, Byculla, Mumbai

    80th Tree Apprecation Walk at Rani Bagh, Byculla, Mumbai on 26th Feb,17 at 8 am : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) It’s a saying in Mumbai…..”बाग़ों मे बाग़ रानी चा बाग़” Yes I am talking about Rani Bagh…. Victoria Garden….Pride of Mumbai… which has the combination of poetry…

  • Phlogacanthus thyrsiformis ?

    Phlogacanthus thyrsiformis ?; . SK35901FEB-2017:ID : 6 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (3) Location: Kurintar, Nepal Date : 30 December 2013 Altitude : 900 ft. Please compare with Phlogacanthus in eFI. Difficult without flowers. Bingo! Yes I guess this is Phlogacanthus thyrsiformis (Roxb. ex Hardw.) D.J.Mabberley (accepted name). Nepali Names: चुवा / तिते  Nepali…

  • Cupaniopsis anacardioides (Introduced)

    Cupaniopsis anacardioides (A.Rich.) Radlk., Sitzungsber. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. München 9: 585 1879. (syn: Cupania anacardioides A. Rich.);  Australia (N-Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, NE-New South Wales), New Guinea, India (introduced), USA (introduced) (Florida (introduced)) as per Catalogue of Life ; Cupaniopsis anacardioides, with common names tuckeroo, carrotwood, beach…

  • Cupaniopsis

    Cupaniopsis anacardioides (A.Rich.) Radlk. (Introduced) (Australia (N-Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, NE-New South Wales), New Guinea, India (introduced), USA (introduced) (Florida (introduced)) as per Catalogue of Life)  

  • Cardamine species- Kalinchowk, Dolakha, Nepal

      SK336JAN23-2017:ID : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3) Location: Kalinchowk, Dolakha, Nepal Altitude: 11000 ft. Date: 25 July 2014 Cardamine spp?? Does not seem to match with any species available in efi as per comparative images at Cardamine  

  • 72. Efloraofindia website updated upto 31st Jan.’17

    Efloraofindia website updated upto 31st Jan.’17- more than 11,000 species : 1 post by 1 author. 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 2,63,600 messages…

  • Dactylorhiza umbrosa

    Dactylorhiza umbrosa (Kar. & Kir.) Nevski, Trudy Bot. Inst. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Ser. 1, Fl. Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 4: 332 1937. (Syn: Dactylorchis sanasunitensis Soó; Dactylorchis umbrosa (Kar. & Kir.) Wendelbo; Dactylorhiza chuhensis Renz & Taubenheim; Dactylorhiza incarnata subsp. turcestanica (Klinge) H.Sund.; Dactylorhiza knorringiana (Kraenzl.) Ikonn.; Dactylorhiza kotschyi (Rchb.f.) P.F.Hunt…

  • Geranium species- Ladakh

      Fwd: Geraniums of Ladakh Part II : 11 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (4) Here with further images of Geraniums scanned in from slides taken in the 1980s: 1. White-flowered 2. White-flowered 3. Near Pensi La, Zanskar 4. Of known medicinal usage I would welcome the thoughts of members as…

  • Geranium species- Lahoul, Himachal Pradesh

      Fwd: Lahoul Geraniums Part I : 7 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3) I attach 3 images of Geraniums taken in Lahoul – the first a distant shot of a ‘meadow’ beside an irrigated field in Miyah Nullah. Nos 2 & 3 were taken near Patseo. I know what I…

  • Astragalus frigidus

    Astragalus frigidus (L.) A.Gray (Syn: Astragalus frigidus subsp. frigidus ; Astragalus frigidus subsp. grigorjewii (B.Fedtsch.) Chater; Astragalus kolaensis Kuzen.; Phaca frigida L.; Phaca ochreata Crantz);   Austria, Slovakia, Faroer Isl., France, S-Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Romania, N-European Russia, Sweden, Siberia (Buryatia, Chita, Irkutsk, Yakutia), Kazakhstan, Russian Far East (Magadan),…

  • Brassica rapa subsp. rapa ?

    Brassica rapa subsp. rapa ?; . SK326JAN17-2017:ID : 7 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (9) Location: Suryabinayak,Bhaktapur, Nepal Altitude:  5000 ft. Date: 14 January 2017 Brassicaceae member ? Yes it looks like but could not close in to the correct ID. This does seem to be a Brassica.  I cannot avoid saying…

  • Vanda hybrid- Mumbai

      Orchid For ID : Flower Show,Mumbai : 05FEB17 : AK-8 : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1) Cultivated Orchid seen at the Flower Show in Jijamata Udyan, Mumbai in the second week of Jan. This is a hybrid of Vanda.

  • Sedum species- Cultivated in a pot in Shimla

      Sedum AT JAN 2017/05 : 7 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) Kindly identify this Sedum sp. Clicked with mobile somewhere in Himachal Pradesh April 2016 Small herb Differing from Sedum sexangulare and S. multicaule in leaf shape and texture It was cultivated in a pot, most probably in…

  • Astragalus amherstianus

    Astragalus amherstianus Benth. (syn: Astragalus lowarensis Ali; Tragacantha amherstiana (Benth.) Kuntze); Afghanistan (N); India (N) ; Himachal Pradesh ; Jammu-Kashmir ; Punjab; Uttar Pradesh; Iran (N); Nepal (N); Pakistan (N) as per ILDIS   Fwd: Astragalus amherstianus in Lahaul : 1 post by 1 author. Two images taken by the…

  • Impatiens stolonifera

    Impatiens stolonifera M. MANUDEV, A.J. ROBI, SANTHOSH NAMPY- Pyhtotaxa Vol 295, No 1 (2017); Impatiens stolonifera (Balsaminaceae) A new scapigerous species from the southern Western Ghats, Kerala, India : 9 posts by 8 authors. Attachments (1)-  Impatiens stolonifera (Balsaminaceae) A new scapigerous species from the southern Western Ghats, Kerala, India.pdf- 1…