• Erythrina species

       Muzki leaves – food for rabbits: Evening, Tribal people (Malasar) carry Muzki leaves to feed rabbits back in their Pathis (hamlet).(Muzki -a difficult malayalam word to pronounce, Do they mean Muzki,Muzhki, Mulki…) Forest Checkpost, Chimmony WLS, Thrissur, Kerala9 Oct 2011 5:30PM These are leaves of Erythrina sp. In malayalam…

  • Ipomoea cordatotriloba ?

    Ipomoea cordatotriloba Dennst. ?; . Ipomoea for ID : 220111 : AK-3: Again taken at Nasik,Maharashtra on the 31st Oct,08. Tiny flowers. it is Ipomoea triloba. check eflora of india database. Ipomoea triloba has much smaller flowers than Ipomoea cordatotriloba. I would say Ipomoea cordatotriloba based on the size of the…

  • Aster albescens

    Aster albescens (DC.) Wall. ex Hand.-Mazz., 205 1938. (Syn: Amphirhapis albescens DC.; Aster albescens var. glandulosus Hand.-Mazz.; Aster albescens var. megaphyllus Y.Ling; Aster albescens var. niveus Hand.-Mazz.; Aster albescens var. rugosus Y.Ling; Aster cabulicus Lindl.; Aster ferrugineus Edgew.; Aster ignoratus Kunth & Bouché); Images by Nidhan Singh, Prashant Awale, Dinesh Valke…

  • Litsea wightiana ?

    Litsea wightiana (Nees) Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 177 177 1886. (Syn: Cylicodaphne wightiana Nees (Unresolved)) ?;    Evergreen dioecious trees, to 15 m high, bark surface brown, smooth, lenticellate; lenticels horizontal; branchlets brown pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 10-20 mm long, stout, brown pubescent; lamina 7-15 x 3-9…

  • Paphiopedilum venustum

    IUCN Red List Status: Endangered (EN) Paphiopedilum venustum (Wall. ex Sims) Pfitzer, Jahrb. Wiss. Bot. 19: 165 1888. (Syn: Cordula venusta (Wall. ex Sims) Rolfe; Cypripedium pardinum Rchb.f.; Cypripedium venustum Wall. ex Sims .; Paphiopedilum pardinum (Rchb.f.) Pfitzer; Paphiopedilum venustum var. bhutanensis Pradhan;  Paphiopedilum venustum f. measuresianum (auct.) Braem; Paphiopedilum venustum f….

  • Lasia spinosa

    Lasia spinosa (L.) Thwaites , Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 336 1864. (Syn: Dracontium spinosum L.; Lasia aculeata Lour.; Lasia crassifolia Engl. ..; Lasia desciscens Schott; Lasia hermannii Schott; Lasia heterophylla (Roxb.) Schott; Lasia jenkinsii Schott; Lasia loureiroi Schott [Illegitimate]; Lasia roxburghii Griff.; Lasia zollingeri Schott; Pothos heterophyllus Roxb.; Pothos lasia Roxb.; Pothos…

  • Lasia

      Lasia spinosa (L.) Thwaites (Images by Ritesh Kumar Choudhary & Raju Das  & Sourav Mahmud (Id by Surajit Koley & David Scherberich) (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more photos & complete details, click on the links)) ‎Lasia (‎‎‎Araceae) page with images of species in efloraofindia : 1 post by 1…

  • Ophiocordyceps sinensis

    Ophiocordyceps sinensis (Berk.) G.H.Sung, J.M.Sung, Hywel-Jones & Spatafora (2007) (syn: Cordyceps sinensis (Berk.) Sacc., 1878; Hirsutella sinensis X. J. Liu, Y. L. Guo, Y. X. Yu & W. Zeng, 1989; Sphaeria sinensis Berk. (1843));     Caterpillar fungus from Arunachal_RKC01_180811: Sharing the photographs of Cordyceps sinensis (popularly known as Caterpillar…

  • Ophiocordyceps

    Ophiocordyceps sinensis (Berk.) G.H.Sung, J.M.Sung, Hywel-Jones & Spatafora      

  • Ophiocordycipitaceae

    Ophiocordyceps sinensis (Berk.) G.H.Sung, J.M.Sung, Hywel-Jones & Spatafora      

  • Acacia mearnsii (Cultivated)

    Acacia mearnsii De Wild. (Syn: Acacia decurrens auct. non Willd.; Acacia decurrens var. mollis Lindl.; Acacia decurrens var. mollis auct. non Lindl.; Acacia mollissima sensu auct.; Racosperma mearnsii (De Wild.) Pedley); , a-KAY-see-u,h or uh-KAY-shuh — from the Greek akis, meaning point, barb, thorny, spiny MEARN-zee-eye — named for Edgar…

  • Mimosa rubicaulis

    Mimosa rubicaulis Lam. (Syn: Mimosa intsia sensu auct. non L.; Mimosa mutabilis Roxb.; Mimosa octandra Roxb.); Afghanistan (N); India (N); Andhra Pradesh ; Arunachal Pradesh ; Assam; Bihar; Delhi ; Goa; Gujarat; Haryana; Himachal Pradesh; Jammu-Kashmir; Karnataka; Kerala; Madhaya Pradesh; Maharashtra; Manipur; Meghalaya; Mizoram; Nagaland; Orissa ; Pondicherry; Punjab; Rajasthan…

  • Canscora andrographioides

    Canscora andrographioides Griff. ex C.B.Clarke , J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 14: 431 1875. (syn: Canscora melastomacea Hand.-Mazz.; Canscora trinervia Ridl.); Images by Raju Das, inserted by Gurcharan Singh (Please click link to see details) ID No. 04042011 RD03:  Date/Time-02/04/2011- 09 AM Location- Place, Altitude, GPS-  Assam, Alt 100m Habitat- Garden/ Urban/…

  • Oreocnide frutescens

    Oreocnide frutescens (Thunb.) Miq., Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugdano-Batavi 3: 131 1867. (Syn: Boehmeria frutescens (Thunb.) Thunb.; Urtica frutescens Thunb.; Urtica roxburghii Steud. (Unresolved); Villebrunea frutescens (Thunb.) Blume); . Assam to Temp. E. Asia and Peninsula Malaysia: Assam, Cambodia, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Japan, Kazan-retto, Korea, Laos, Malaya,…

  • Selinum

    Himalayan species of Selinum L. sl – BioOne: Key to the species of Ligusticopsis from Himalayan species of Selinum L. sl – BioOne 1. Leaves 2-3-pinnatisect; terminal leaf lobes 7-14 mm long, 3-7 mm broad, rhombic to ovate-lanceolate, at the margin with several teeth or lobed; stylopodia at the margin not…

  • Geranium lambertii

    Geranium lambertii Sweet, Geraniaceae 4: t. 338 1827. (Syn: Geranium chumbiense R.Knuth; Geranium eriostemon D.Don [Illegitimate]; Geranium grevilleanum Wall.);  Common name: Lambert’s Geranium     Fwd: Geranium lambertii : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (12) I think it will be useful to have a set of reference images of…

  • Stachys floccosa

    Stachys floccosa Benth., Labiat. Gen. Spec. 739 1835.; . Lamiaceae & Verbenaceae Week: Lamiaceae, Stachys floccosa from Kashmir: Stachys floccosa Benth., erect stout plant, obtusely angled, densely covered with sift white wool; leaves ovate-oblong to ovate-cordate, up to 10 cm long, lower petiolate, upper sessile; flowers in sessile axillary clusters,…

  • Lindernia oppositifolia

    Lindernia oppositifolia (L.) Mukerjee, J. Indian Bot. Soc. 24: 134 1945. (Syn:  Bonnaya minima G.Don; Gratiola oppositifolia L. ex Willd.); . Procumbent herbs; stems glabrous. Leaves to 4 x 0.5 cm, linear-oblong, acute, distantly serrate, sessile. Racemes to 13 cm long, terminal; pedicels opposite, 2 cm long, slender, perpendicular to the…