• Cleistocactus

      Cleistocactus icosagonus (Kunth) A.Weber     Cleistocactus samaipatanus (Cárdenas) D.R.Hunt ?          Cleistocactus species   Cleistocactus? Cleistocactus brookeae Cárdenas? – Duars   Cleistocactus acanthurus (Vaupel) D.R.Hunt     Cleistocactus winteri D.R.Hunt ?  

  • Cobaea scandens (Introduced)

    Cobaea scandens Cav., Icon. 1: 11 1791. (syn: Cobaea lasseri Pittier; Rosenbergia scandens (Cav.) House); Mexico (Chiapas, Coahuila, Ciudad de Mexico, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Mexico State, Michoacan, Morelos, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas, Veracruz), Honduras (I), Guatemala (I), Costa Rica (I), Australia (I) (New South Wales…

  • Cobaea

    Cobaea scandens Cav. (Introduced) (Mexico (Chiapas, Coahuila, Ciudad de Mexico, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Mexico State, Michoacan, Morelos, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas, Veracruz), Honduras (I), Guatemala (I), Costa Rica (I), Australia (I) (New South Wales (I)), Java (I), Peru (I), Cuba (I), Jamaica (I), Bolivia (I),…

  • Scientific Plant Names Dictionary- for flora occurring in Western Australia

        Scientific Plant Names Dictionary: Scientific Plant Names Dictionary The dictionary file wacensus.dic contains 12,641 entries representing botanical names, at various taxonomic ranks for the native and naturalised flora occurring in Western Australia. Specifically, the names are derived across kingdoms (5), divisions (26), classes and subclasses (46), orders (118),…

  • Cassia moschata

    Cassia moschata Kunth, F. W. H. A. von Humboldt et al., Nov. gen. sp. 6:266[folio]; 6:338[quarto]. 1824 (Syn: Cathartocarpus moschatus (Kunth) G.Don); images by Raman Arunachalam    Images by tspkumar   Request Tree ID 151 – Lalbagh, Bangalore – RA – What cassia is this?: (10 images). It was a beautiful tree…

  • Malabar Whistling Thrush

        A question from Matheran!: It is (or it was) perceived that Malabar Whistling Thrushs are breeding visitors in Mumbai wildlife region. Particularly in Monsson they are seen and observed near the flowing streams. They are sometimes located and identified through their typical whistling call adn sometimes through their…

  • Fungi- Chamba, HP

          Fungi of Kalatope – Al010112 – Fungi: (4 images) Some of the fungi I came across during my ramblings in Kalatope… Location Kalatope, Chamba, HPAltitude 2100 mtsHabitat wildHeight 3 inchesGrowing on Conifer litter under pine and cedarseason July        

  • Mammillaria species- Flower Show, Mumbai

          Cactus for ID : Flower Show,Mumbai : 230213 : AK-3: Another cultivated, ornamental, potted cactus at the flower show in Mumbai, during Feb, 2011. Id please. mammillaria Hard to tell without flowers …, But overall, it looks like Mammillaria rhodantha to me, if the flowers are a…

  • Mammillaria species- Flower Show, Mumbai

          Cactus for ID : Flower Show,Mumbai : 230213 : AK-2: Another cactus seen at the Flower Show in Mumbai, during Feb, 2011. A cultivated, potted plant. That is a Mammillaria cv, monstrose something, can’t remember the species  Some kind of Mammillaria monstrose nudum, but I have no…

  • Canna hybrid- Pune

      Image by Bhagyashri Ranade   efloraofindia:”For Id 01032013MR2’’ double colored Canna species at Pune: Oct 2012 requesting identification of this Canna spp at a private society garden at Pune  is this Canna Canna X generalis (Canna X orchiodes) ?   Id help http://www.catnapin.com/WildFlowers/Flowers-multi/mmCanna.htm  

  • 25. Efloraofindia website updated upto 31st Jan.’13

        Efloraofindia website updated upto 31st Jan.’13- more than 8000 species: It’s heartening to reiterate that Efloraofindia is the largest google e-group in the world in this field & the largest nature related e-group (and the most constructive) in India with more than 1,45,000 messages so far & membership currently…

  • Vigna species ?- Split pod in Yeoor region

        Plz id this pod: pa96 – 20feb2013: I saw this split pod … i think it had fallen down from somewhere on a karvanda tree in Yeoor region. Is it posible to identify it? Tks. No size has been mentioned, but this could be Teramnus labialis var. mollis which…

  • Peperomia argyreia (Cultivated)

    Peperomia argyreia (Hook.f.) E.Morren, Ann. Hort. Belge Étrangère 17: 2 1867. (Syn: Peperomia argyraea Hott. [Invalid]; Peperomia arifolia var. argyreia Hook.f.: Peperomia sandersii C.DC.;                         (≡) Peperomia arifolia var. argyreia Miq. (basionym)); SE-Brazil (Rio de Janeiro), Ecuador, Venezuela (Distrito Federal, Miranda), Colombia (I), Tuamotu Arch. (I), Ryukyu Isl. (I), Taiwan (I)…

  • Sageraea

    Sageraea laurina Dalzell (Images by Anita Kindre, Dinesh Valke, Navendu Page & Prashant Awale (Validated by Tapas Chakrabarty) (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more images, click on the links))   A conspectus of Indo-Burmese Annonaceae by I. M. Turner- Nordic Journal of Botany 33: 257–299, 2015- Species in India with distribution: Sageraea…

  • Crateva species- Near Kolhapur

          Id of a tree: Posting a photo of tree in full blossom for id.Location – Near Kolhapur on the way to Devgad.Date -16..2.2013 at 9.00am. Please check with Crateva religiosa G.Forst I was also of the same opinion, but leaflets looked longer than usual to me for…

  • Enkianthus quinqueflorus (Hong Kong)

    Enkianthus quinqueflorus Lour., Fl. Cochinch. 277 1790. (Syn: Enkianthus cavaleriei H.Lév.; Enkianthus dunnii H.Lév.; Enkianthus quinqueflorus var. ciliatoserrulatus P.C.Huang & K.M.Li; Enkianthus reticulatus Lindl.; Enkianthus uniflorus Benth.; Enkianthus xantoxanthus H.Lév.; Melidora pellucida Noronha ex Salisb. (Unresolved));      ERICACEAE: Enkianthus quinqueflorus Lour. from Hong Kong: Enkianthus quinqueflorus Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 277…

  • Enkianthus

      Enkianthus quinqueflorus Lour. (Hongkong)     An important document of species of Enkianthus Lour. occurring in India is Panda & Sanjappa (2014). It mentions following species in Indian territories: Enkianthus deflexus (Griff.) C.K.Schneid. (var. deflexus and var. acuminatus) [colour image and diagrams are also given]   Panda, S. and Sanjappa,…

  • Saussurea inversa

    Saussurea inversa Raab-Straube, Willdenowia. 41: 92. 2011 (Syn: Brit. India 3: 377. 1881, not S. glabrata (Candolle) C. Shih (1999); S. gnaphalodes (Royle ex Candolle) Schultz Bipontinus var. glabrata (J. D. Hooker) Handel-Mazzetti; S. hypsipeta Diels var. glabrata (J. D. Hooker) Lipschitz.);   Inverse Snow Lotus;   Image by Suresh…

  • Rubus species- Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh

    Rosaceae week_Rubus sp. for ID_RKC07_03102011: (6 pictures) Pl help me to identify this Rubus sp. Loc.: Itanagar, Papumpare district (ca 550msl), Arunachal Pradesh Date: July 2009. How about Rubus hexagynus??? Cant see the larger image but the inflorescence pattern in the ‘Type sheet’ of R. hexagynus looks very different.. Have…

  • Heritage Trees, in and around Bangalore

        Heritage Trees, in and around Bangalore – Book by Vijay Thiruvady: I haven’t seen it, just FYI. http://bangalore.citizenmatters.in/articles/view/3830-photo-book-on-bengalurus-heritage-trees-?s=rss Thanks … for sharing the information. Your interest in trees being a non-botanist is great. Your efforts are laudable in bringing out the tree treasure of Bangalore.      …