• Pavetta crassicaulis ?

    Requesting ID of this plant – Lohagad : 22082013 : ARK-03 : August 2013 : Attachments (1). 3 posts by 2 authors. Requesting to please ID this plant captured at Lohagad near Pune in August 2013. Looks like a Pavetta sp. Pavetta crassicaulis Bremek.

  • Predation

        Predation : Attachments (7). 2 posts by 2 authors. Thought this might be interesting. Photographed on my property at Shahapur [north of Bombay] last Sunday (21.8.13). A Praying Mantis eating a Woolly Bear [Arctiid Moth caterpillar]. Sending a few photographs. Thanks … for lovely site. The Praying Mantis…

  • Lysimachia lobelioides

    Lysimachia lobelioides Wall., Fl. Ind., ed. 1820 2: 29 29 1824. (Syn: Bernardina lobelina Baudo; Lysimachia secunda Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don);   China (W-Guangxi, Guizhou, SW-Sichuan, Yunnan), Bhutan, India, Laos, Myanmar [Burma] (Mandalay), Nepal, N-Thailand, Java, Jammu & Kashmir (Kashmir), Vietnam as per Catalogue of Life; Common name: Lobelia Loosestrife     …

  • Rhodiola fui

    Rhodiola fui Boriss. In Novit. Syst. Pl. Vasc. Acad. Sci. USSR 6: 114. 1969. Singh et al., Crassulaceae India 98. 2011. as per efi thread; . Flora of Chakrata 2013- Sedum oreades for validation :  Attachments (4). 7 posts by 3 authors. This small spreading herb with succulent leaves was shot…

  • Oldenlandia stricta

    Oldenlandia stricta L., Mant. Pl. 2: 200 1771. (Syn: Hedyotis graminifolia L.f.; Hedyotis graminifolia subsp. arenaria (Haines) Deb & R.M.Dutta; Hedyotis graminifolia var. shuteri (Hook.f.) Deb & R.M.Dutta; Hedyotis linifolia Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.; Hedyotis shuteri (Hook.f.) R.S.Rao & Hemadri; Hedyotis stricta (L.) R.S.Rao & Hemadri [Illegitimate]; Oldenlandia arenaria…

  • Digitalis lutea (Introduced- USA)

    Digitalis lutea L., Sp. Pl. 368 1753. (syn: . Central Europe as per POWO; . Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, ?Netherlands, Andorra, NE-Spain, Italy, Slovakia, Croatia, ?Denmark (I), Poland (I), Taiwan (I), USA (I) (Connecticut (I), Maryland (I), Michigan (I), New Hampshire (I), New York (I), Ohio (I), Pennsylvania (I), Vermont…

  • Lobularia

      Lobularia maritima (L.) Desv.              

  • Lindernia species- near Shilling in Gori valley

      Scrophulariaceae Fortnight: Herb for id from Gori Valley-NS 41 : Attachments (4). 3 posts by 2 authors. Please help to identify this very small herb which was shot from area near Shilling in Gori valley… can this again be a Lindernia sp.?? Lindernia species in efi so far along…

  • Platystemma

    Platystemma violoides Wall.    

  • Serpula similis ?

    Serpula similis (Berk. & Broome) Ginns, Mycologia, 63: 231, 1971 (Syn:  ≡Merulius similis Berk. & Broome, ≡Sesia similis (Berk. & Broome) Kuntze, ≡Gyrophana similis (Berk. & Broome) Pat.) ?;      Hooghly – Fuligo sp. ??? : Attachments (11). 3 posts by 2 authors. This one was growing on a dead…

  • Serpula

    Serpula similis (Berk. & Broome) Ginns ?  

  • Serpulaceae

    Serpula similis (Berk. & Broome) Ginns ?  

  • Veronica species- Vienna, Virginia, USA

    Garden Flower for ID – 130813 – RK : Attachments (3). 3 posts by 3 authors. 15/06/13 – 3.15 pm at Vienna, Virginia. Flowers small – about 11/2 “. Request ID Some Veronica sp. Veronica chamaedrys L. ! I do not think so as per images at Veronica chamaedrys (Europe)

  • Nemesia caerulea (USA) ?

    Nemesia caerulea Hiern, Fl .Cap. 4(2): 191 1904. ?;   Nemesia caerulea is a blue- to purple- flowered herbaceous perennial member of the Plantaginaceae family.[1] The plant is native to the Cape Floristic Province of southwestern South Africa, where it grows at low elevations on fully exposed north-facing and northwest-facing…

  • Rhododendron setosum

    Rhododendron setosum D. Don, Mem. Wern. Nat. Hist. Soc. 3: 408-409 408 1821.;   Common name: Bristly Rhododendron    RE: Rhododendrons : Attachments (4). 2 posts by 1 author. I am Nepal and I would like to share some photos of Rhododendrons from Nepal’s Himalayas. Yes R. Arboreum is national…

  • Zarwani-to Saribar Trekking Programme

        Fwd: 5 Days 4 Nights – Zarwani-to Saribar Trekking Programme. : Attachments (22). 1 post by 1 author.                5 Days 4 Nights – Zarwani-to Saribar  Trekking Programme.  On 12 to 16 October-2013.  In the Shulpaneshwar Wild life Sanctuary – Gora Colony area. (With…

  • Volvariella species- Hooghly, West Bengal

        Hooghly – Volvaria sp.? : Attachments (7).  8 posts by 3 authors. Found this mushroom today (9.8.13), growing on organic waste under a tree. I would think… Volvariella sp … Thanks …, i thought both are synonyms, as in http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3756159?uid=3738256&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21102560284573 and many others. I think Volvaria is what  is termed as…