• 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.      …

  • 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…