• Scrophulariaceae Fortnight: Statistics

        Scrophulariaceae Fortnight: Statistics : Attachments (1). 2 posts by 2 authors. I have compiled the genera and species discussed during the Scrophulariaceae Fortnight under the Family Scrophulariaceae and related families. Attaching the excel sheet covering the list. Angelonia  Alectra Anticharis Antirrhinum Artanema Angelonia salicariifolia Antirrhinum majus Angelonia angustifolia…

  • Cyperus species- Yeoor hills, Maharastra

          Poaceae, Cyperaceae and Juncaceae Week :: ¿ Cyperus sp. ? at Yeoor Hills :: 16 AUG 09 08:34 :: DV21 : 3 images. 5 posts by 3 authors. ¿ Cyperaceae ?¿ Cyperus ? sp. Place, Altitude: Yeoor Hills … about 350 ft aslDate, Time: 16 AUG 09 … 08:34amHabitat:…

  • Clathrus species- SGNP, Mumbai

          Fungi for id? : Attachments (2).  4 posts by 3 authors. Request id of these two fungi taken in Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), Mumbai this morning (4.8.13)? ………………… Found on a dead tree stump. … and Clathrus sp.        

  • Fimbristylis species- Hooghly, West Bengal

    Hooghly Today : Fimbristylis sp. again? : Attachments (3). 4 posts by 2 authors. This one too growing in that sandy patch in front of our school. Fimbristylis species so far in efi Can it be Fimbristylis rigidula Nees? Need a specimen along with underground parts.  It looks like a Fimbristylis sp. to…

  • Argyreia hirsuta

    Argyreia hirsuta Wight & Arn., Nova Acta Phys.-Med. Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. 18:365C. 1836;   Climbing undershrubs; stem hirsute. Leaves 13-20 x 7-14 cm, broadly ovate, base cordate, apex abruptly acuminate, densely strigose above, tomentose beneath; nerves 7-13 pairs, prominent below; petiole 5-11 cm long, densely pubescent. Flowers in…

  • Justicia diffusa

    Justicia diffusa Willd., Sp. Pl. 1: 87 87 1797. (syn: Rostellaria diffusa (Willd.) Nees); . Herbs. Leaves 4-5 x 3 cm, elliptic-ovate, apex subacute, base rounded; petiole to 1 cm. Spike axillary, to 6 cm; bracts and bracteoles to 2 cm, ovate, acute; calyx lobes to 4 mm, lanceolate, acute,…

  • Leucocoprinus cepistipes

    Leucocoprinus cepistipes (Sowerby) Pat., Journal de Botanique (Morot), 3: 336, 1889 (Syn: ≡Lepiota lutea (With.) Quél.;  ≡Lepista lutea (With.) Godfrin; ≡Agaricus caepestipes Sowerby; ≡Agaricus luteus With; ≡Agaricus cepistipes Sowerby, ≡Agaricus cepaestipes Sowerby, ≡Agaricus cepaestipes var. luteus Pers., ≡Agaricus cepistipes var. luteus Pers., ≡Coprinus cepaestipes (Sowerby) Gray, ≡Coprinus cepistipes (Sowerby) Gray, ≡Lepiota cepistipes…

  • Why do we publish Indian plants in foreign journals ?

        TWO NEW SPECIES OF ERIOCAULON (ERIOCAULACEAE) FROM INDIA……!!!: ……………………….. …………………………. Congrats .., for the discoveries. But my question is… why do we publish taxonomic records of Indian plants, that too endemics, in some foreign journals, and why do we feel proud of it?! The users will have to…

  • Bulbostylis densa ?

    Bulbostylis densa (Wall.) Hand.-Mazz., Vegetationsbilder 20(7): 16 1930. (Syn: Abildgaardia densa (Wall.) Lye; Bulbostylis capillaris f. densus (Wall.) C.B.Clarke; Bulbostylis capillaris var. trifida (Nees) C.B.Clarke; Bulbostylis densa subsp. densa ; Bulbostylis tenuissima Nakai [Illegitimate]; Bulbostylis trichokolea (Steud.) Beetle; Bulbostylis trifida (Nees) Nelmes; Fimbristylis capillacea Hochst. ex Steud.; Fimbristylis densa (Wall.)…

  • Limnophila repens

    Limnophila repens (Benth.) Benth., Prodr. 10: 387 387 1846. (Syn: Ambulia conferta (Benth.) Baill. ex Wettst.; Bonnaya punctata G.Don; Diceros stoloniferus Blanco; Gratiola lucida Heyne ex Wall.; Limnophila conferta Benth., Limnophila conferta var. dubia (Bonati) Bonati, Limnophila dubia Bonati; Limnophila serrata Thwaites, Limnophila sessilis (Benth.) C.E.C.Fischer; Limnophila stolonifera Merrill; Stemodia repens Bentham; Stemodia…

  • Eleutheranthera ruderalis

    Eleutheranthera ruderalis (Sw.) Sch.Bip., Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 24 165 1866. (Syn: Eleutheranthera areolata Klatt; Eleutheranthera discoidea (Less. ex Less.) M.Gómez; Eleutheranthera ovalifolia Baill.; Eleutheranthera ovata Poit. ex Steud.; Eleutheranthera ovata Poit.; Eleutheranthera prostrata var. leiocarpa (Cass.) Hochr.; Eleutheranthera prostrata var. portoriccensis (DC.) Hochr.; Eleutheranthera ruderalis var. radiata Pruski; Fingalia hexagona…

  • Eleutheranthera

      Eleutheranthera ruderalis (Sw.) Sch.Bip. (Images by Surajit Koley (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more photos & complete details, click on the links))   Eleutheranthera (‎‎‎‎‎Asteraceae (Compositae)‎) page with images of species in efloraofindia : 1 post by 1 author. Pl. go through ‎Eleutheranthera (‎‎‎‎‎Asteraceae (Compositae)‎) page with images of species (done by me)…

  • Video: The plant family tree

        Video: The plant family tree : 4 posts by 3 authors. A very interesting video about Kew’s contribution to Botany. A highly recommended!! http://www.nowness.com/day/2013/8/11/3242/the-plant-family-tree By the way, the person sitting with the book is my dream guru, Prof. Mark Chase. I really wish I get to work with…

  • Merremia cissoides

    Merremia cissoides (Lam.) Hallier f., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 16: 552 552 1893. (Syn: Batatas cissoides (Lam.) Choisy; Convolvulus calycinus Kunth; Convolvulus cissoides Lam.; Convolvulus oronocensis Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.; Convolvulus riparius Kunth; Ipomoea cissoides (Lam.) Griseb.; Ipomoea cissoides f. viscidula Meisn.; Pharbitis cissoides (Lam.) Peter);    Slender, herbaceous, twiners;…

  • Nanorrhinum incanum

    Nanorrhinum incanum (Wall.) Betsche, Courier Forschungsinst. Senckenberg 71: 132 1984 (Syn: Kickxia incana (Wall.) Pennell; Linaria incana Wall. (ambiguous synonym)); . Pakistan (Karachi, Sind, Baluchistan, Quetta, N.W.Frontier Prov., Chitral, Swat, Hazara, Pakistani Punjab, Murree, Salt Range, Rawalpindi), Jammu & Kashmir (Poonch, Kashmir), India, Nepal, Bhutan, Iran (S-Iran, SW-Iran) as per Catalogue…

  • Phryma

    Phryma oblongifolia Koidz. (Temp. Asia to N. Vietnam as per WCSP)            

  • Digitalis species- SFO Bot. Park. USA

        Scrophulariaceae fortnight :: Digitalis sp. San Francisco SMP 22 : 1 image. 1 post by 1 author. Attaching some different coloured Digitalis flowers observed in SFO Bot. Park. USA     Scrophulariaceae fortnight :: Digitalis sp. San Francisco SMP 23 : 1 image. 1 post by 1 author….

  • Lindernia procumbens

    Lindernia procumbens (Krock.) Philcox, Taxon 14: 30 1965. (Syn: Anagalloides procumbens Krock.; Lindernia erecta (Benth.) Bonati; Lindernia kitaibelii G.Don (Unresolved); Lindernia procumbens (Krock.) Borbás; Lindernia pyxidaria All. (Unresolved); Pyxidaria procumbens (Krock.) Borbás; Tittmannia erecta Benth. (Unresolved); Torenia erecta Buch.-Ham. ex Wall. (Unresolved); Torenia trichotoma Buch.-Ham. ex Wall. (Unresolved); Vandellia erecta Benth.) as per The Plant…