• Mutisioideae

    Adenocaulon himalaicum Edgew.   Dicoma tomentosa Cass.   Gerbera gossypina (Royle) Beauverd (Images by D.S.Rawat & (Ashwini Bhatia – validation by Anil Thakur))  Gerbera jamesonii Adlam (Images by Balkar Singh, (Narendra Joshi – Id by Nidhan Singh), Alka Khare & Dinesh Valke)  Gerbera maxima (D.Don) Beauverd   Leibnitzia nepalensis (Kunze) Kitam.   Piloselloides hirsuta…

  • Gochnatioideae

    Gochnatia spectabilis (D.Don) Less. (Images by Aarti Khale (ID D S Rawat), Nidhan Singh, D S Rawat, and Nidhan Singh (Inserted by Gurcharan Singh) (Please click links for all images))                                           …

  • Physostegia virginiana (USA)

    Physostegia virginiana (L.) Benth., Edwards’s Bot. Reg. 15: t. 1289 1829. (syn: Dracocephalum denticulatum Aiton .; Dracocephalum formosius (Lunell) Rydb.; Dracocephalum lancifolium Moench [Illegitimate]; Dracocephalum louisianum Lem.; Dracocephalum regelii Voss [Invalid]; Dracocephalum speciosum Sweet; Dracocephalum virginianum L. ….; Physostegia denticulata (Aiton) Britton; Physostegia formosior Lunell .; Physostegia granulosa Fassett; Physostegia imbricata Hook.; Physostegia…

  • Physostegia

    Physostegia virginiana (L.) Benth.  

  • Iochroma ‘Plum Paradise’

      Iochroma Species For ID : Kenya : 09SEP16 : AK-7 : 07/07 : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3) Iochroma Species seen in Kenya during first week of July. Iochroma cyanea? I think matches with images of “Plum Paradise” Iochroma at http://www.strangewonderfulthings.com/139.htm Thanks …

  • Eriobotrya elliptica

    Eriobotrya elliptica Lindl., Trans. Linn. Soc. London 13:102. 1821 (syn: Mespilus cuila Buch.-Ham. ex Lindl.; Photinia elliptica (Lindl.) Nichols.); . SE-Tibet (Mdog Xian), Nepal, Vietnam as per Catalogue of Life; . Common name: Nepal Loquat . SK 3702 14 March 2023: 8 very high res. images. Location: Kathmandu Valley, Nepal Date:…

  • Fabaceae member- Kenya

    Tree For ID : Kenya : 09SEP16 : AK-05 : 05/05 : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2) A huge tree seen in Nairobi during the first week of July. Only dry pods, no flowers. A fabaceae member. The pods are close to Tipu Tree, Tipuana tipu, I have…

  • Mackaya macrocarpa

    Mackaya macrocarpa (Wall. ex Nees) Das, Fl. Assam 3: 447 1939. (syn: Asystasia macrocarpa Wall. ex Nees; Ruellia macrocarpa Wall.); . Myanmar (Chin, Kachin); Bhutan; India (Bengal, E-India, NE-India, Darjeeling, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim); Nepal; Bangladesh as per CoL; . Decumbent or ascending undershrub to 2m, but usually less. Stems glabrous…

  • Mackaya

    Mackaya indica (Nees) Ensermu   Mackaya macrocarpa (Wall. ex Nees) Das  

  • Apiaceae member- Dharchula (Uttarakhand)

      Kailas Manasarovar Route::Apiaceae sp for ID NSJ-SEP/03 : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2) Apiaceae sp for ID. Photo taken on the way to Dharchula (Uttarakhand) last month. Altitude around 4000 feet.

  • Leucas wightiana

    Leucas wightiana Wall. ex Benth., Pl. Asiat. Rar. 1: 60 1830. (Syn: Leucas aspera var. wightiana (Wall. ex Benth.) Benth.); W. & S. India as per WCSP; Erect, annual herbs, profusely branched, 15-35 cm high; branches 4-gonous, scabrid or hirsute with deflexed-appressed hairs. Leaves subsessile, 3-8 x 0.2-1 cm, linear,…

  • Clerodendrum bungei

    Clerodendrum bungei Steud., Nomencl. Bot. ed. 2, 1: 382 1840. (syn: Clerodendrum bungei var. bungei ; Clerodendrum foetidum Bunge [Illegitimate]; Clerodendrum fragrans var. foetidum Bakh.; Clerodendrum yatschuense H.J.P.Winkl.; Pavetta esquirolii H.Lév.; Volkameria bungei (Steud.) Lavallée); China to Vietnam, Taiwan as per WCSP;   Clerodendrum bungei : 2 posts by 2…

  • Launaea secunda

    Launaea secunda (C.B.Clarke) Hook.f., 416 1881. (syn: Chondrilla secunda Royle; Chondrilla secunda Royle ex C.B.Clarke; Microrhynchus secundus C.B.Clarke; Zollikoferia secunda (C.B.Clarke) Boiss.); . Afghanistan (Jawzjan / Sar-e-Pol, Kunar / Nuristan, Nangarhar, Paktia / Khost), Pakistan (Kurram, Swat, Hazara, Pakistani Punjab), Jammu & Kashmir (Poonch, Kashmir), India (Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh),…

  • Platostoma elongatum

    Platostoma elongatum (Benth.) A.J.Paton, Kew Bull. 52: 274 1997. (Syn: Geniosporum elongatum Benth.; Geniosporum indicum Briq.); S. India, Sri Lanka as per WCSP; Erect herbs, pilose. Leaves to 3.5 x 1 mm, oblong-obovate, apex acute, base cuneate, distantly serrate, hirsute, punctuate; petiole 0.5 cm. Spikes terminal, pubescent; bracts 4 x…

  • Sanjappa

    Sanjappa, a new genus in the tribe Ingeae published : 4 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (1) – Sanjappa, a new genus in the tribe Ingeae.pdf We are happy to share with you, about our new research publication in Molecular taxonomy. This paper re circumscribes the former Calliandra cynometroides Bedd….

  • Uraria species- Ladakh

      Ladakh flora -3 : 6 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1) Id pl of the herb in Ladakh. Interesting legume…!! Find in Fabaceae Looks so distinctive but is currently defeating me beyond Fabaceae (Leguminosae). Should have added that the foliage below and in the background does not belong to…

  • Compendium of Indian Folk Medicine and Ethnobotany (1991-2015)

    Fwd: Our book “Compendium of Indian Folk Medicine and Ethnobotany (1991-2015)” : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) We are pleased to inform that our work entitled “Compendium of Indian Folk Medicine and Ethnobotany (1991-2015)” completed few moths ago and the book has now been published by Deep Publications,…

  • Searsia

    Searsia mysorensis (G.Don) Moffett Images by Satish Phadke, Devendra Bhardwaj & J. M. Garg (Validated by Vijayasankar Raman) (Inserted by J.M.Garg)    Searsia paniculata (Wall. ex G.Don) Moffett (Images by Anurag N Sharma (Validated by Tapas Chakrabarty) (Inserted by J.M.Garg)) Searsia parviflora (Roxb.) F. A. Barkley (Images by Nayan Singh…