Stemonuraceae
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Keys as per Flora of Peninsular India Gomphandra tetrandra (Wall.) Sleumer (China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Yunnan), Cambodia, India (Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu), Laos, Myanmar [Burma], Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar [Burma] (Chin) as per Catalogue of Life) Flora of Peninsular India with keys…
Piper acutistigmum
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Piper acutistigmum C.DC., Candollea 1: 188 1923. ; INDIA: Andaman Islands, Arunachal Pradesh(?); MYANMAR as per Nomenclatural notes on Piper Linn. (Piperaceae) from India II – PRASANTA KUMAR MUKHERJEE- Phytotaxa 338 (1): 017–032, 2018; Piper sp.(?) from kamrup district, Assam: Attached images are Piper sp.(?) collected on hilly area….
Id this plant growing wild near Mankhurd region
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Plz id this plant: pa75 – 7jan2013: Plz id this plant growing wild near Mankhurd region. In the dense bushes it is tough to make out the habit whether it is a shrub or something else.
DiversityIndia- Photo of Year 2012
- January 11, 2013
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Photo of Year 2012: Happy New Year 2013 to all. This is the time of year when we share Photo of the Year on all the DiversityIndia groups. So here is the call for posting the Photo of the Year. If you are not familiar what it is…
Limnophila chinensis
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Limnophila chinensis (Osbeck) Merr., Amer. J. Bot. 3: 581 581 1916. (Syn: Ambulia ebracteata Buch.-Ham. ex Hook.fil.; Columnea chinensis Osbeck; Diceros cochinchinensis Lour.; Limnophila chevalieri Bonati; Limnophila chinensis subsp. chevalieri (Bonati) T.Yamazaki; Limnophila chinensis var. scaberrima Kurz; Limnophila hirsuta (Heyne ex Benth.) Benth.; Stemodia hirsuta Heyne ex Benth.); . Australia…
Pinguicula alpina
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Pinguicula alpina L., Sp. Pl. 17 1753. ; Image by D.S.Rawat Insectivorous herb in Western Himalaya: Pinguicula alpina L. (Lentibulariaceae) is a rarely photographed insectivorous herb in the alpine Himalaya. It grows on moist shady slopes between 3000-3500m altitude in Uttarakhand. The species is more common in some European…
Pinguicula
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Pinguicula alpina L. (Image by .S.Rawat) Pinguicula ‘Aphrodite’ (Cultivated) (Images by Gurcharan Singh) Pinguicula (Lentibulariaceae) page with images of species in efloraofindia : 1 post by 1 author Pl. go through Pinguicula (Lentibulariaceae) page with images of species (done by …) in efloraofindia. If you find any mis-identification, pl. let us…
Basilicum
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Basilicum polystachyon (L.) Moench
Author citations based on Heyne
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QUERY :: commemorative epithets: heyneana, hyneanum, heynei & c: I am believing all the Indian species with the commemorative epithets: heyneana, hyneanum, heynei … are named for Dr B. Heyne, German botanist and traveller, co-author of Herbarium Maderaspatense … Origins of Plant Names Benjamin Heyne, Scottish surgeon, naturalist…
Goeppertia makoyana (Cultivated- Oman)
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Goeppertia makoyana (E.Morren) Borchs. & S.Suárez, Syst. Bot. 37: 632 (2012). (syn: Calathea makoyana E.Morren; Calathea olivaris (H.J.Veitch) G.Nicholson; Maranta makoyana (E.Morren) auct.; Maranta olivaris H.J.Veitch; Maranta iconifera W.Bull; Phyllodes mackoyana (E.Morren) Kuntze); Brazil (as per WCSP) Image by Aarti Khale (Identified by Ajinkya Gadave), (inserted by Bhagyashri Ranade &…
Trachydium roylei
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Trachydium roylei Lindl., J.F.Royle, Ill. Bot. Himal. Mts.: 232 (1835) (syn: Aulacospermum roylei (Lindl.) P. Kachroo, U. Dhar & A.R. Naqshi); . N. Pakistan to W. Himalaya, SW. & E. Tibet to China (W. Sichuan) as per POWO; . China (W-Sichuan), Tibet, India (C- to NW-Himalaya), Jammu & Kashmir (Kashmir), Pakistan…
Myriophyllum siamense
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Myriophyllum siamense (Craib) Tardieu (Unresolved), Adansonia n.s., 5: 37 1965. ; Two new additions to Flora of India: Wishing you all a happy and prosperous New Year. Personally, its been a wonderful start for the year 2013, as two of my research papers got published. Attaching here with…
Henckelia pradeepiana
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Henckelia pradeepiana Nampy, Manudev & A. Weber (Gesneriaceae) is a new species collected from Kozhikode District of Kerala, named in honour of Dr. A.K. Pradeep, University of Calicut …………………………………………. References:
Henckelia
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A taxonomic revision of Henckelia (Gesneriaceae) in South India with a new species, one new combination and seven lectotypifications (pdf)- May 2020 Rheedea 30(1):48-95- Janeesha A P & Santhosh Nampy . Henckelia anachoreta (Hance) D.J.Middleton & Mich.Möller (Arunachal Pradesh to S. China and Indo-China, Taiwan: Assam, China South-Central, China Southeast, East…
Caryophyllaceae week Statistics
- January 10, 2013
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Caryophyllaceae week Statistics.: I have compiled the statistics of the plants from Caryophyllaceae during the family week in Dec 2012.Sorry I coudn’t contribute a single plant. 14 Genera including 38 species were contributed during the episode. The limelight was on Silene (15 sp.)followed by Cerastium:5 sp. Everybody knows…
Ephedra gerardiana var. sikkimensis
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Ephedra gerardiana var. sikkimensis Stapf, Denkschr. Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss., Wien. Math.-Naturwiss. Kl. 56(2): 76 1889. (Syn: Ephedra gerardiana var. congesta C.Y.Cheng; Ephedra gerardiana var. saxatilis Stapf; Ephedra saxatilis (Stapf) Royle ex Florin; Ephedra saxatilis var. sikkimensis (Stapf) Florin); Gori Valley Tour: Ephedra for specification: This uncommon Gymnosperm was…
Eugenia cotinifolia (Cultivated- Lalbagh, Banglore) ?
- January 8, 2013
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Eugenia cotinifolia Jacq., Observ. Bot. 3: 3 1768. (Syn: Caryophyllus cotinifolius Mill.; Eugenia dussii Krug & Urb.; Jambosa cotinifolia (Jacq.) DC. (Unresolved); Jossinia cotinifolia (Jacq.) DC.; Myrtus cotinifolia (Jacq.) Spreng.) ?; Myrcia guianensis (Aubl.) DC. (syn: Aguava guianensis (Aubl.) Raf. …………….; Eugenia cotinifolia Jacq. …………………….) as per Catalogue of Life; Cuba,…
Begoniaceae
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MNP, Mumbai
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