• Verbascum thapsus ?

    Verbascum thapsus ?;     Wild Plant For ID : Jim Corbett,Uttarakhand : 070614 : AK-17 : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2). Other recipients: A small wild plant seen deep inside the forest area on 18/5/14.No flowers.Aarti A small wild plant seen deep inside the forest area on 18/5/14. No…

  • Extending botanical knowledge to rural India

        Re: Extending botanical knowledge to rural India (Alirajpur pilot) : 4 posts by 3 authors. we are documenting the botanical wealth in our villages in Alirajpur. most of the flora that have been documented by the village people have Bhili names and only a few have Hindi names….

  • Tecoma stans var. angustata

    Tecoma stans var. angustata Rehder, Mitteil. Deutsch. Dendrol. Ges. 1915: 227 (1915);    As per efi thread: In Tecoma stans var. angustata Rehd. (syn: T. incisum (Rose & Standl. ex Woot. & Standl.) I. M. Johnston: leaflets narrow, incised-toothed. Tecoma Species For ID : Garden Of Five Senses,Delhi : 100614 :…

  • Cuscuta species- Bangladesh

          Cuscuta ID from Bangladesh SM077 : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2). Close up of flowers will help in Id.        

  • Tree from Bangladesh

    Tree ID from Bangladesh SM075 : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1). Habit- Tree Habitat : garden Very difficult to see any details from this small size picture with a distant shot.

  • Diplopterygium giganteum

    Diplopterygium giganteum (Wall. ex Hook.) Nakai ex Bauer,  Bulletin of the National Science Museum 29: 50. 1950. (Syn: Dicranopteris gigantea (Wall. ex Hook.) Underw.; Diplopterygium criticum (Ching & Chiu) Ching ex X.C.Zhang ; Diplopterygium maximum (Ching) Ching & H.S.Kung ; Diplopterygium simulans (Ching) Ching ex X.C.Zhang ; Diplopterygium yunnanense (Ching) Ching ex X.C.Zhang ; Gleichenia gigantea Wall. ex Hook.; Hicriopteris…

  • Migrant birds may be virtual dispersal highways for plants

        Fwd: Tiny plants ride on the coattails of migratory birds: Migrant birds may be virtual dispersal highways for plants : 1 post by 1 author. New information about the role of migratory birds influencing plant distribution comes from evidence of them carrying microscopic bits of plants (bryophyte diaspores)….

  • Common Baron butterfly on Arecaceae member

          SYMBIOSIS :604 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (1). Attaching an image of a Common Baron butterfly on the flowers of a Palm Sp.        

  • Palaquium polyanthum

    Palaquium polyanthum (Wall. ex G.Don) Baill., Traité Bot. Méd. Phan. 1500 1884. (Syn: Bassia polyantha Wall. ex G.Don; Dichopsis polyantha (Wall. ex G.Don) Benth.; Isonandra polyantha (Wall. ex G.Don) Kurz);    Assam to Indo-China; Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Vietnam as per POWO;     Tree from Bangladesh SM033 : 14 posts by…

  • Palaquium

    Palaquium polyanthum (Wall. ex G.Don) Baill. (Assam to Indo-China; Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Vietnam as per POWO)   Flora of Peninsular India with keys at species links, if any: Palaquium bourdillonii (Kerala) Palaquium ellipticum (Karnataka and Kerala) Palaquium ravii (Kerala)

  • Aniseia martinicensis

    Aniseia martinicensis (Jacq.) Choisy, Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 8(1): 66 1838. (Syn: Aniseia emarginata (Vahl) Hassk.; Aniseia ensifolia Choisy; Aniseia salicifolia (Desr.) Choisy; Aniseia uniflora (Burm.) Choisy; Convolvulus emarginata Vahl; Convolvulus martinicensis Jacq.; Convolvulus salicifolius Desr.; Convolvulus uniflorus Burm.; Ipomoea martinicensis (Jacq.) G. Mey.; Ipomoea ruyssenii A. Chev.; Ipomoea uniflora…

  • Aniseia

    Aniseia martinicensis (Jacq.) Choisy Images by Sourav Mahmud, inserted by Gurcharan Singh (Please click link to see details and more images)

  • Hepatica falconeri

    Hepatica falconeri (Thoms.) Steward, Fl. URSS 7: 284 1937. (syn: Anemone falconeri Thoms.; Hepatica falconeri (Thoms.) Juzepczuk); . Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan (Chitral, Swat, Hazara), Pakistani Kashmir (Azad Kashmir), India: Jammu & Kashmir (Poonch, Kashmir), Himachal Pradesh as per Catalogue of Life; . Central Asia to N. Pakistan and W. Himalaya:…

  • Primula matthioli subsp. brotheri

    Primula matthioli subsp. brotheri (R.Knuth) Kovt., Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 44: 155 (2013) (syn: Cortusa brotheri (R.Knuth) Losinsk.; Cortusa matthioli f. brotheri R.Knuth; Primula brotheri (R.Knuth) Sutorý); . Altay to Mongolia and Tibet: Altay, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Tadzhikistan, Tibet, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, Xinjiang as per POWO; . Common name: Himalayan Bell Primrose ….

  • Hemlata Pradhan, botanist painter

    Hemlata Pradhan, botanist painter : 3 posts by 2 authors. Other recipients: http://www.indianbotanists.com/2014/06/botanical-illustration-painting-plant.html?spref=fb cheers,Kiran Srivastavamumbai http://www.indianbotanists.com/2014/06/botanical-illustration-painting-plant.html?spref=fb Thanks Kiran Ji, I was lucky enough to meet … at her art school in Kalimpong.. a great display of art by her students was a real treat for me.. as illustrators are be…

  • Ophiorrhiza species- Kaptai NP, Chittagong Hill tracts, Bangladesh

    Fwd: Herb ID from Bangladesh SM038 : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1). Habit: Undergrowth Herb Habitat : Hill forest Flowering : May Location : Kaptai NP, Chittagong Hill tracts Ophiorrhiza sp Ophiorrhiza– species in India & eFI with details & some keys Ophiorrhiza tingens C.B.Clarke ex C.E.C.Fisch. ?? .  …

  • Syzygium species- Chittagong Hill Tract, Bangladesh

      Tree ID from Bangladesh SM048 : 5 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (1). Habit: Tree Habitat: Hill forest along the stream Location: Chittagong Hill Tract Fruiting: May Eugenia / Syzygium sp. Fruits of Syzygium samarangense (Blume) Merr. & L.M.Perry; that is our very common JAMRUL, looks same at certain stage of growth….

  • Flora of Karnataka

    Flora of Karnataka : 11 posts by 9 authors. I am just entrusted with the final editing of the Flora of Karnataka (Dicotyledons), to be completed within next six months so that it can be published by Botanical Survey of India on priority basis.In the above context, I request you…