• Colocasia species- Sirsi, Malnad area

    • February 16, 2017
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      Colacasia for ID : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) Would like help in identifying the Colacasia in the attached pic. It is from the Malnad area (Sirsi) and is edible, the thin side shoots included.

  • Kerala- Kannur plant

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      ID- GK231216-1 : 3 posts by 1 author. Please identify this plant from Kannur  

  • Jan.’2017

    • February 13, 2017
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    Members who inserted images in efi site in Jan.’2017 : 1 post by 1 author. Following members inserted images on a large number of efi pages as below: TSP Kumar- around 9 pages In addition, species & genera pages of the following families were also completed in this month:  Euphorbiaceae (completed in Jan’17) Number of images…

  • Clematis species- Kalinchowk, Dolakha, Nepal

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      SK304JAN07-2016:ID : 6 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2) Location: Kalinchowk, Dolakha, Nepal Altitude: 9000 ft. Date: 26 July 2014 Clematis…??? I AM intending to comment about this and the other two Clematis in Nepal whose images have been posted in recent weeks.  I have taken an initial look at this Clematis…

  • Cassia hybrid- Coimbatore, Tamilnadu

    • February 12, 2017
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      efloraindia:”Fabaceae-Caesalpinioideae (Caesalpiniaceae) Week: Sharing the images of Cassia hybrida from Coimbatore. Location: NBNP Garden Habitat: Garden Habit: Tree This plant has to be looked carefully There is no published name as Cassia hybrida, the only we have is Cassia hybrida Tenore now considered as synonym of Senna floribunda (Cav.)…

  • One cannot always identify a plant beyond genus from photos alone

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    Fwd: One cannot always identify a plant beyond genus from photos alone : 1 post by 1 author. I have just posted about a Cotoneaster specimen thought to be C.microphyllus posted by … from Nepal.  I explained that he MUST wait until I have sent these images to J.Fryer for determination. …

  • Flowers of the Himalaya

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    Fwd: Child in Manali looking at Flowers of the Himalaya : 5 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (1) During one of the two botanical tours I led to H.P. in the mid-1980s, I walked up to Old Manali from the guest-house my group were staying in with the doctor on the tour and…

  • Child in Manali looking at Flowers of the Himalaya

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    Fwd: Child in Manali looking at Flowers of the Himalaya : 5 posts by 4 authors. During one of the two botanical tours I led to H.P. in the mid-1980s, I walked up to Old Manali from the guest-house my group were staying in with the doctor on the tour and took this…

  • Meconopsis latifolia

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    Meconopsis latifolia (Prain) Prain, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1915: 146 1915. (syn: Meconopsis sinuata var. latifolia Prain); Jammu & Kashmir (Kashmir) as per Catalogue of Life; Monocarpic erect, herbs, with yellow fluid, about 30-100 cm tall. Stem simple, stout, grooved, covered with spreading or deflexed pale yellowish brown or golden…

  • Tragia sanjappae

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    Tragia sanjappae Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr., Rheedea 16: 25 2006. (syn: Tragia involucrata var. angustifolia Hook.f.); Common name: Narrow-Leaf Climbing Nettle S. India as per WCSP; Climbing herbs, ca 75 cm high; stem and branches flattened and striate towards apices, terete to semiterete towards base, 1-4 mm thick, tawny or brown…

  • Anemonastrum elongatum

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    Anemonastrum elongatum (D. Don) Holub, Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 8: 165 1973. (syn: Anemone elongata D. Don; Anemone rivularis Wall. (ambiguous synonym));   India (Uttar Pradesh, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh), Sikkim, N-Burma, Nepal, N-Burma, Tibet, Myanmar [Burma] (Kachin, Sagaing) as per Catalogue of Life;   Flora of Uttarakhand- Anemone obtusiloba ?: Captured on…

  • Hippophae tibetana

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    Hippophae tibetana Schltdl., Linnaea 32: 296–297 1863. (syn: Hippophae rhamnoides subsp. tibetana (Schltdl.) Servettaz); China (Gansu, Qinghai), Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal, N-India as per Catalogue of Life; Images by Sonam Tamchos  Hippophae tibetana from Chumur area of Leh ladakh : 4 posts by 1 author. Attachments (5) Greeting from Ladakh!!! kindly…

  • ALIEN plants – how did they arrive in India?

    • February 8, 2017
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    Fwd: ALIEN plants – how did they arrive in India? : 1 post by 1 author. Following my recent post about ‘Aliens & Adventives’, I wish to comment further, raising the question of HOW are such plants spread? In GCSE Biology in the UK students are taught about means of…

  • 2016

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    2016- Members who inserted images at efi site : 4 posts by 4 authors. Following members inserted a large number of images on a large number of efi pages as below: Bhagyashri Ranade- around 790 pages Gurcharan Singh- around 360 pages TSP Kumar- around 270 pages D S Rawat – around 250 pages There were…

  • The INADEQUACIES of images of herbarium specimens at low resolution

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    Fwd: The INADEQUACIES of images of herbarium specimens at low resolution : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (4) Whilst it is great to have available on the internet images of pressed specimens in herbaria, when they are ONLY of low resolution, their value to CONFIRM identifications can be limited….

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