• Nepenthes species

    pitcher plant: One of my friend has put these pics on Facebook. i wonder if India has anything similar to them?? https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=345617122178514&set=a.121874897886072.21858.120956487977913&type=1&theater another one https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=345618192178407&set=a.121874897886072.21858.120956487977913&type=1&theater  I have seen a pitcher plant at the yercaud botanical garden. But it is a planted one.  I have several pictures of different varieties/ species…

  • Coreopsis tinctoria (Cultivated)

    Coreopsis tinctoria Nutt., 114 1821. (Syn: Bidens tinctoria (Nutt.) Baill.; Calliopsis atropurpurea Hort. ex Steud. [Invalid]; Calliopsis bicolor Rchb.; Calliopsis cardaminefolia DC.; Calliopsis tinctoria (Nutt.) DC.; Coreopsis atkinsoniana Douglas ex Lindl.; Coreopsis bicolor (Rchb.) Bosse ex Buchenau; Coreopsis cardaminefolia (DC.) Torr. & A.Gray; Coreopsis gracilis Blanco; Coreopsis similis ; Coreopsis…

  • Boenninghausenia albiflora

    Boenninghausenia albiflora (Hook.) Rchb. ex Meisn., Pl. Vasc. Gen. 44 1837. (Syn: Bodinieria thalictrifolia H.Lév. & Vaniot; Boenninghausenia albiflora var. brevipes Franch.; Boenninghausenia albiflora var. pilosa Z.M.Tan; Boenninghausenia brevipes (Franch.) H. Lév.; Boenninghausenia japonica Siebold ex Miq.; Boenninghausenia schizocarpa S.Y.Hu; Boenninghausenia sessilicarpa H.Lév.; Podostaurus thalictroides Jungh.; Ruta dampatis Buch.-Ham. ex…

  • Piper trichostachyon

    Piper trichostachyon (Miq.) C. DC. , Prodr. 16(1): 242 242 1869. (Syn: Muldera trichostachya Miq.); Peninsular India as per India Biodiversity Portal;     References: Catalogue of Life  The Plant List Ver.1.1  GBIF  POWO India Biodiversity Portal  Flora of peninsular India  Kerala plants  Plant illustrations  new Piper from the northern Western Ghats…

  • Ipomoea asarifolia

    Ipomoea asarifolia (Desr.) Roem. & Schult. (syn: Amphione asarifolia (Desr.) Rafin.; Convolvulus asarifolius Desr.; Convolvulus beladambu Spreng.; Convolvulus flagelliformis Roxb.; Convolvulus rugosus Rottl.; Convolvulus urbicus Salzm. ex Choisy; Ipomoea beladamboe Roem. & Schult.; Ipomoea crassifolia Cav.; Ipomoea flagelliformis Steud.; Ipomoea grisebachii Prain; Ipomoea latifolia M. Mart. & Gal.; Ipomoea nymphaeifolia…

  • Related links

    Related links;    eFI website- further involvement of members required Volunteers for working on eFI website  

  • Guidelines for re-surfacing Id requests

    Guidelines for re-surfacing Id requests Aim of the whole exercise of forwarding is to get the Identification. We have to provide all earlier feedback along with the attachments at the same place, so that anybody interested need not have to look at all the things again doing up & down….

  • Formatting efloraofindia pages

    Formatting efloraofindia pages;   This one can do by formatting currently edited pages as they are not properly formatted due to time constraints.   One has to click on ‘sign in’ to google by clicking at the bottom left of the page (if it shows ‘Sign in’ at the bottom…

  • Procedure for updating efloraofindia site

    Procedure for updating efi site 1. Visit home page at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (one can make it ones’ favorite by opening it, clicking on Favorites in Menu Bar at the top, selecting ‘ add to favorites’ & then clicking on ‘Add’->. In future, one has to just click on favorites & then…

  • Cynoglossum species

      Char Dam yatra at Gangotri– 7.7.10; For ID 200710 ETa – efloraofindia | Google Groups   flowers for id m3: These photographs were taken during a trip to ladakh in july 2008. wondering if this flower can identified. they were growing besides the road that goes from manali to…

  • Licuala species ?

     Licuala species ?;   05122010VAI1 – Wildflower for ID:  This ?tree looked like a dwarf palm about 4 feet tall. Photographed in jungle on a trek (looking for birds). – ID request please Location: near Makunda Christian Hospital campus, Karimganj District, Assam Date: 5th December 2010 Please check Carludovica palmata Ruiz…

  • Vachellia nilotica subsp. cupressiformis

    Vachellia nilotica (L.) P. J. H. Hurter & Mabb. subsp. cupressiformis ined. (Syn: (≡) Acacia arabica var. cupressiformis J. L. Stewart (basionym); (≡) Acacia nilotica subsp. cupressiformis (J. L. Stewart) Ali & Faruqi) as per GRIN;  . Acacia nilotica subsp. cupressiformis (J.L.Stewart) Ali & Faruqi (Syn: Acacia arabica var. cupressiformis…

  • Luisia macrantha

    Luisia macrantha Blatt. & McCann , J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 35: 492 1932.; . India (N. Kanara) as per POWO; . Common name: Spotted Luisia .   Kathakali flowering: Was at my farm at Shahapur today. Luisia macrantha [Kathakali] was flowering. Sending a few photographs. Luisia macrantha Blatt. & McCann…

  • Luisia

    Luisia abrahami Vatsala (India (Kerala) as per POWO)            Luisia birchea Blume (SW. India, Sri Lanka as per POWO) Luisia filiformis Hook.f. (E. Himalaya to China (S. & SE. Yunnan) and Indo-China: Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China South-Central, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam as per POWO) Luisia inconspicua (Hook.f.) King & Pantl. (Himalaya to China (Yunnan) and Bangladesh: Assam, Bangladesh,…

  • Asparagus aethiopicus

    Asparagus aethiopicus L., Mant. Pl. 1 1770. (Syn: Asparagopsis aethiopica (L.) Kunth; Asparagopsis lancea (Thunb.) Kunth; Asparagus aculeatus Voss; Asparagus laetus Salisb.; Asparagus lanceus Thunb.; Asparagus maximus Voss;Asparagus sprengeri Regel ;  Protasparagus aethiopicus (L.) Oberm.); Images by (Bhagyashri Ranade – identified by Arving Kadus) & (Neha Singh – identified by Giby Kuriakose),…

  • Amborella species

    Amborella species;   Amborella: here is an interesting piece of information which can be read at the following link: http://www.biotecnika.org/news/august-2011/where-did-flowers-come?utm…   The University at Buffalo is a key partner in a $7.3 million, multi-institution collaboration to explore the origins of all flowers by sequencing the genome of Amborella, a unique…

  • Dypsis lutescens ?

      ID request 15122013PC1 : Attachments (5). 5 posts by 3 authors. Kindly identify this palm tree growing in Delhi. Photographs were taken in July, 2013. It looks like Pinanga caesia Thank you … I guess correct ID ! To me looks different as per images at https://www.palmpedia.net/wiki/Pinanga_caesia Dypsis lutescens (H.Wendl.) Beentje…

  • Vernicia

      Vernicia fordii (Hemsl.) Airy Shaw   Species as per Flora of India Vol 23 (2012) (Editors N. P. Balakrishnan, T. Chakrabarty, M. Sanjappa, P. Lakshminarsimhan & P. Singh- by Botanical Survey of India): Vernicia cordata (Thunb.) Airy Shaw (Cultivated)Vernicia fordii (Hemsl.) Airy Shaw Vernicia montana Lour.      …