• Brassica species ?- Ooty, Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu

    Brassica species ?; . Herb from Nilgiris for ID 270411MK1:  Please help to identify this herb found commonly on roadsides of Ooty, Nilgiris. Is this any Brassicaceae? Date/Time- 18-04-2011 / 03:00 PM Location- Place, Altitude, GPca.2100asl; Ooty, TN Habitat- Garden/ Urban/ Wild/ Type- roadside weed Plant Habit-erect herb Height/Length- 25…

  • Spatholobus purpureus

    Spatholobus purpureus Prain (Syn: Butea purpurea (Prain) Blatt.); India (N) ; Karnataka ; Kerala ; Maharashtra ; Tamil Nadu ; Myanmar (N) as per ILDIS;   ANAPR28 Spatholobus purpureus Benth. ex Baker : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (8).  Family: FabaceaeDate: 5th April 2015Place: Agumbe, KarnatakaHabit: LianaIdentified by: ……

  • Doryphora sassafras (Australia)

    Doryphora sassafras Endl., Iconogr. Gen. Pl. 1: t. 10 1837. (Syn: Atherosperma sassafras A.Cunn. ex A.DC.);   Images by Ushaprabha Page (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more images & complete details, click on the links)    Flowers of Australia: sending photo of endemic tree of Australia– `Doryphora sassafras`-family-Monimiaceae flowers have pleasant essence. Photo…

  • Doryphora

      Doryphora sassafras Endl. (Images by Ushaprabha Page (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more images & complete details, click on the links)) 

  • Atherospermataceae

    Doryphora sassafras Endl. (Australia) (Images by Ushaprabha Page (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more images & complete details, click on the links)) 

  • Diospyros crumenata

    IUCN Red List Status: Endangered (EN) Diospyros crumenata Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 179 1860.; Image by Pranay Rao    Malayalam: Karimaram  Kannada: Thumri   Evergreen dioecious trees, to 25 m high, bark 4 mm thick, black, thin scaly with small depression, blaze creamy yellow turning to brown on exposure; branchlets glabrous. Leaves…

  • Artemisia amygdalina

    Artemisia amygdalina Decne., 1843. ;   Images by Gurcharan Singh (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more images & complete details, click on the links)        Artemisia amygdalina critically Endangered Endemic species from Kashmir: 10 posts by 6 authors. Attachments (3) Artemisia amygdalina Decne., Voy. Ind. Bot. 4: 92. t. 100. 1843…

  • Begonia andamensis

    Begonia andamensis Parish ex C.B.Clarke , Fl. Brit. India 2: 650 1879. ; Images by Manudev Madhavan    Begonia andamensis Parish ex C.B.Clarke:  Last week, Begonia andamensis Parish ex C.B.Clarke, endemic to Andaman & Nicobar Islands, flowered in my garden. Sharing the photos here… Wonderful pictures of a rare plant.  …

  • Nymphaea species/ hybrids

      ID Pls – grown unknowingly at my garden fish tank after adding pond soil into it. Is it any water lily OR any Water Hyacinth ?: pls help me to identify the attached plant , grown unknowingly at my garden fish tank after adding pond soil into it. Is…

  • Impatiens balfourii

    Impatiens balfourii Hook.f., Bot. Mag. 129: t. 7878 1903.;    Images by Alok Mahendroo     Chamba heights al200811a… impatiens: Another Impatiens for id.. location Chamba Altitude 3500 mts Habit herb Habitat wild Plant height 2 feet  I think this is the same species as the one which is there…

  • Kalanchoe gastonis-bonnieri (Cultivated)

    Kalanchoe gastonis-bonnieri Raym.-Hamet & H. Perrier, Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 9 16: 364-366 364 1912. (Syn: Kalanchoe adolphi-engleri Raym.-Hamet);   Common name: palm beachbells, Donkey Ears, Life Plant   Images by Bhagyashri Ranade   ”For Id 15122011MR1’’ ? Kalanchoe daigremontiana inflorescence Pune: Nov 2011 potted plant at a private society at…

  • 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…

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    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…