• Dec.’2016

    Gurcharan Singh- Hero of the efloraofindia site in Dec.’2016 : 3 posts by 3 authors. He is The Pitamah of efloraofin​dia. 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

    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…

  • Rosa hybrids- Indonesia

      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

    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…

  • ALIEN & ADVENTIVE plant species in India

    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

    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

    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

    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…

  • Impatiens species- Myanmar

    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…

  • R E T plants

    List or link of R E T plants of india : 9 posts by 3 authors. i require the latest  list of  R E T plants of India or a link to it please share it Pl.  Download from file section in EFI site for South India. For Conservation Concern…

  • Rhododendron nivale subsp. nivale

    Rhododendron nivale Hook. f., Rhododendron Sikkim Himalaya 3: , pl. 26(B) 1851. (syn: Azalea nivalis (Hook. fil.) Kuntze; Rhododendron paludosum Hutchinson & F. K. Ward); Common name: Dwarf Snow Rhododendron China (S-Qinghai), Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Chumbi as per Catalogue of Life; Compact dwarf shrub 10-30cm; shoots scaly otherwise glabrous….

  • Lutheria (Vriesea) ‘Tiffany’

    Lutheria (Vriesea) ‘Tiffany’;   Flower for ID : 6 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1) Please identify the plant in the picture. Zingiberaceae? This is Vriesea Species. Probably Vriesea ‘Tiffany’. Kindly check the link on FOI. http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Vriesea%20Tiffany.html Thanks … I had this plant long ago. But I knew it as Bromeliad…

  • ‘Sino-Japanese’ flora in Pakistan??

    Fwd: ‘Sino-Japanese’ flora in Pakistan?? : 1 post by 1 author. Further to my recent posts about Elaeagnus, I think it will be informative for me to comment about PHYTOGEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS for plants. I note that phytogeography is much favoured in some ‘floras’.  I have a copy of ‘Wild Flowers of…

  • Cotula hemisphaerica

    Cotula hemisphaerica Wall. ex Benth. & Hook.f., 150 . (syn: Artemisia hemisphaerica Roxb.; Cotula hemisphaerica Wall.; Ethulia nepalensis Spreng. ex DC.); Distrib. India: Indo-Gangetic Plain, a weed of paddy fields ascending in the Himalayas up to 800 m. Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, W. Bengal, Assam, Manipur and Meghalaya; China and Japan…

  • Odontostemma glandulosa

    Odontostemma glandulosa Benth., Gen. Hist. 1: 449 1831. (syn: Adenostemma glandulosum (Benth. ex G. Don) Hook. fil.; Arenaria aureocaulis C.Y. Wu ex L.H. Zhou; Arenaria benthamii Edgew.; Arenaria blinkworthii McNeill; Arenaria debilis Hook. fil. ex Edgew. & Hook. fil.; Arenaria glandulosa (Benth. ex G. Don) F.N. Williams; Arenaria monticola Buckl.;…

  • Helotiaceae

    Hymenoscyphus species ?- Pharping, Nepal  

  • Cycas species- Myanmar

      A curious tree from Myanmar : 5 posts by 2 authors. 2 images. I want to determine this tree. I think the family is Cycadaceae. Maybe Cycas swamyi ?? Was it cultivated ? Pl. also check comparative images at Cycas Some species of Cycas. I think this is a…