• Hippomane

      Hippomane mancinella L.  

  • Dichanthium species ?- Java

          Grass of Java : Attachments (1). 3 posts by 2 authors. Could you help me to id our grass please.  I think it is Dichanthium sp. please sent the close up image          

  • Orbea schweinfurthii

    Orbea schweinfurthii (A. Berger) Bruyns, Aloe 37(4): 76 76 2000. (Syn: Angolluma schweinfurthii (A.Berger) Plowes (Unresolved); Caralluma schweinfurthii A.Berger (Unresolved);  Pachycymbium schweinfurthii (A. Berger) M.G. Gilbert);   Images by Aarti S Khale (Id by Ajinkya Gadave) (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more images & complete details, click on the links)        Ornamental For…

  • Orbea

      Orbea schweinfurthii (A. Berger) Bruyns (Cultivated) (Images by Aarti S Khale (Id by Ajinkya Gadave) (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more images & complete details, click on the links))  Orbea semota (N.E. Br.) L.C. Leach (Images by Gurcharan Singh (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more images & complete details, click on the links))  Orbea…

  • Ternstroemia gymnanthera

    Ternstroemia gymnanthera (Wight & Arn.) Bedd., Fl. Sylv. S. India 19, 91 19 1871. (Syn: Adinandra japonica (Thunb.) T. L. Ming; Cleyera dubia Champ. ex Benth.; Cleyera fragrans Champ. ex Benth.; Cleyera gymnanthera Wight & Arn.; Dupinia japonica (Thunb.) Franch.; Hoferia japonica (Thunb.) Franch.; Mokofua japonica (Thunb.) Kuntze; Taonabo japonica…

  • Ternstroemia

    Ternstroemia gymnanthera (Wight & Arn.) Bedd. (China (Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang), Taiwan, Japan (Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu), South Korea, Ryukyu Isl., Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar [Burma], Nepal, Vietnam, Thailand, Sikkim, India (Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu, Kerala), Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Bangladesh as per Catalogue of Life)…

  • Voacanga grandifolia (Cultivated- Mumbai)

    Voacanga grandifolia (Miq.) Rolfe, J. Bot. 21: 202 1883. (syn: Orchipeda grandifolia (Miq.) Miq.; Orchipeda papuana F.Muell.; Pootia exauriculata Teijsm. & Binn.; Pootia grandifolia Miq.; Tabernaemontana celebica Miq.; Voacanga grandifolia var. glabrifolia Bakh.f.; Voacanga papuana (F.Muell.) K.Schum.; Voacanga papuana (F. Muell.) Boerlage; Voacanga versteegii Markgr.);   Images by Shobha Halwe-Chavda…

  • Kalanchoe species ?

      Bryophyllum for ID : Nairobi,Kenya : 221112 : AK-3: Saw this Bryophyllum in Nairobi, Kenya on 26/1/2009. Plant was pink in color. No flowers present when these pictures were taken. Id please.

  • Senegalia species- Pune, Maharashtra

    efloraofindia:”Id 07072013MR1’’ tree with ? cream colored new leaves at Pune : Attachments (3). 3 posts by 2 authors. 07/07/2013 requesting identification of a tall tree with ?cream colored new leaves to the left of Mira bridge at Pune. there were 2-3 such trees. The trees looked beautiful with the…

  • Typhonium species ?- Mumbai

         Requesting ID of this wild herb – Mumbai :02072013 : ARK-01 : June 2013 : Attachments (2). 6 posts by 4 authors. Requesting to please ID this herb growing wild captured in Mumbai in June 2013. The leaf has a very peculiar leaf shape This could be Theriophonum…

  • Crepis dachhigamensis

    Crepis dachhigamensis G.Singh, Forest Flora of Srinagar, P. 127, Fig. 7, 1976;   Images by Gurcharan Singh (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more images & complete details, click on the links)        Asteraceae Fortnight Part 3-Ligulate Heads (plus Misc.): Crepis dachhigamensis from Kashmir-GS17 : Attachments (1). 6 posts by 5 authors.  Another…

  • WEST KAMENG ERICACEAE BOOK BY PANDA

        WEST KAMENG ERICACEAE BOOK BY PANDA PBULISHED BY LAP-LAMBERT, GERMANY : Attachments (1).   7 posts by 7 authors. Pl. go through my Book “West Kameng Ericaceae…..”published by Lap-Lambert, Germany, based on my 10 years research work on West Kameng Ericaceae. Besides, You can open Google and write…

  • Picrorhiza scrophulariiflora

    Picrorhiza scrophulariiflora Pennell, Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia Monogr. 5: 65 1943. (syn: Neopicrorhiza scrophulariiflora (Pennell) D.Y.Hong; Picrorhiza lindleyana (Wall.) Steud.; Picrorhiza lindleyana (Wall.) Wettst.; Veronica lindleyana Wall.);   As per efi thread: Neopicrorhiza scrophulariiflora (= Picrorhiza scrophulariiflora)and Picrorhiza kurrooa are closely related in morphology. Neopicrorhiza has corolla larger than calyx and…

  • Literature on Ocimum taxonomy

        literature on Ocimum taxonomy :   2 posts by 2 authors. In need of recent literature on Ocimum taxonomy pls help For Lamiaceae literature, you can contact Dr. P. Sunojkumar (specialized in Lamiaceae) Asst. Professor Department of Botany Calicut UniversityKerala E-mail: …        

  • NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AWARENESS CAMPAIGN 2013-14

        Fw: NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AWARENESS CAMPAIGN 2013-14 : 1 post by 1 author. The Min of Environment & Forests have invited proposals for their above Awareness Campaign(NEAC-2013-14),the theme being “bio-diversity Conservation” Several sub-themes are available and they are in the Ministry’s Web-site. today’s NewsPaper contains the details Proposals are…

  • Garhadiolus hedypnois

    Garhadiolus hedypnois (Fisch. & Mey.) Jaub. & Spach (Unresolved), 120 1850. (syn: Garhadiolus angulosus Jaub. & Spach; Garhadiolus minutissimus (Bunge) Kitam.; Koelpinia rhagadioloides B.D.Jacks.; Rhagadiolus angulosus (Jaub. & Spach) Kupicha; Rhagadiolus hedypnois Fisch. & C.A.Mey.);    Images by Gurcharan Singh (inserted by Gurcharan Singh) (Click links to see all images)  …

  • Garhadiolus

      Garhadiolus hedypnois (Fisch. & Mey.) Jaub. & Spach (Images by Gurcharan Singh (inserted by Gurcharan Singh))                                                                   …

  • Alocasia species- Jijamata Udyan, Mumbai

      Araceae, Arecaceae and Zingiberaceae Fortnight: August 1 to 14, 2014 : Araceae For ID : Jijamata Udyan,Mumbai : 110814 : AK-7 : 2 posts by 1 author. Attachments (2). Ornamental plant with large leaves, around 2 feet in length, seen at the garden today. (11.8.14) Id please. Seems to…

  • Hypochaeris radicata

    Hypochoeris radicata L., Sp. Pl. 2: 811 811 1753. (Syn: Achyrophorus radicatus Scop.; Achyrophorus taraxacifolius Sch.Bip.; Apargia serotina Jan ex Steud.; Barkhausia radicata Godr.; Hypochaeris atlantica Sennen & Mauricio; Hypochaeris neapolitana DC.; Hypochaeris radicata var. erostris Emb. & Maire; Hypochaeris radicata subsp. neapolitana (DC.) Nyman; Hypochaeris radicata var. rostrata Moris; Porcellites…