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…
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 (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 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 (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 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…
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- 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…
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….
Gurcharan Singh- Hero of the efloraofindia site in Dec.’2016 : 3 posts by 3 authors. He is The Pitamah of efloraofindia. He has inserted images in around 64 pages in the previous month. Not only this he has also transferred those images to genera pages for comparative viewing along with correcting Ids,…
2015 & 2016 (combined)- Members who inserted images at efi site : 2 posts by 2 authors. Following members inserted a large number of images on a large number of efi pages in 2015 & 2016 (combined) as below: Bhagyashri Ranade- around 1180 pages TSP Kumar- around 600 pages D S Rawat – around 540 pages…
Rosaceae Fortnight: Rosa of Indonesia 1 : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) We need the id of the following Rosa please. Thanks, …, Was it cultivated or wild ? When and where in Indonesia ? It is cultivated on the fence in Central Java. Rosaceae…
Scutellaria heydei Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 667 1885. ; E. Afghanistan to Tibet ( as per WCSP); Fwd: Scutellaria heydei Hk.f. – NEW to efi : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (2) I attach 2 images taken as slides in the 1980s of Scutellaria heydei photographed for…
Fwd: ALIEN & ADVENTIVE plant species in India : 6 posts by 5 authors. When posting images of a plant it is HELPFUL that an indication is given as to whether the specimen was growing in the wild or cultivated. Just because a plant is not in a park, garden or…
Pogostemon glaber Benth., Pl. Asiat. Rar. 1: 31 1830. ; . Himalaya to S. China and Indo-China as per WCSP; . Pogostemon glaber Benth. (accepted name) ?? : 5 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (11) Location: Suryabinayak, Bhaktapur, Nepal Altitude: 5000 ft. Date: 14 January 2017 http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=110&taxon_id=200020041 I think matches…
Cyperus malaccensis Lam., Tabl. Encycl. 1: 146 1791. (syn: Chlorocyperus malaccensis (Lam.) Palla; Cyperus fortunei Steud.; Cyperus incurvatus Roxb.; Cyperus malaccensis subsp. malaccensis ; Cyperus malaccensis var. malaccensis ; Cyperus neesii D.Dietr. [Illegitimate]; Cyperus spaniophyllus Steud.; Cyperus tegetiformis Benth. [Illegitimate]; Cyperus wallichii Nees); Trop. & Subtrop. Asia to N. Australia…
Blepharispermum petiolare DC., 12 1834. ; Shrubs, to 1 m high. Leaves 8-10 x 5 cm, alternate, ovate, acuminate, entire, glabrous; petioles 1 cm long. Heads 3-6-flowered, densely packed in globose clusters of 15 mm across, panicled, terminal, long-peduncled; bracts 1-seriate, 5 x 1 mm, white, oblong, obtuse, glabrous. Flowers two…
Blepharispermum petiolare DC.
Probable Balsaminaceae from Myanmar : 7 posts by 3 authors. I have identified this plant as being an Impatiens (Balsaminaceae) but I’m not sure! Can you confirm and if so, can you name the species? Pictures taken on the 14-10-2016 altitude 130met. In Hpa-an, Kayin State, Myanmar Thank you in…