• Dicliptera parvibracteata

    Dicliptera parvibracteata Nees, Pl. Asiat. Rar. 3: 111 1832. ; India (Andhra Pradesh) as per Catalogue of Life; Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 111, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 488 ; leaves ovate acuminate nearly glabrous, bracts 1/10 in. linear. Justicia retorta, Vahl Enum. i. 150 ? J….

  • Nymphaea ‘Barbara Dobbins’ (Atlanta, USA)?

    Nymphaea ‘Barbara Dobbins’ ?; Water Lily for ID : Atlanta Botanical Garden, Atlanta : 03JUL20 : AK-08 : 5 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (4) Water Lily seen in a pond outside the Conservatory during my visit in October, 2018. Try to check with Nymphaea odorata earlier posted by … from…

  • Bowiea volubilis (Introduced)

    Bowiea volubilis Harv., Bot. Mag. 93: t. 5619 1867. (syn: Ophiobostryx volubilis (Harv. ex Hook.f.) Skeels; Schizobasopsis volubilis (Harv. ex Hook.f.) J.F.Macbr.; Aloe volubilis (Harv. ex Hook.f.) Mottet); Angola, Cape Provinces, Free State, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe as per POWO; Bowiea volubilis AT/JULY2020/01 :…

  • Bowiea

    Bowiea volubilis Harv. (Introduced) (Angola, Cape Provinces, Free State, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe as per POWO)

  • Carex species- Mt Slamet, Java

      Grass of Java : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) I would like to know the name of the following grass please. It was found at slope of Mt Slamet ca 1500 m a.s.l.  It is not a grass, but a Sedge belonging to family Cyperaceae. The Genus…

  • Laccaria species- Phulchoki, Lalitpur, Nepal

      SK 2662 12 July 2020 – Mycophyta : 5 posts by 2 authors. 3 images- 5 to 7 mb each. Location: Phulchoki, Lalitpur, Nepal Date: 20 June  2020 Altitude: 2215 m. Habitat : Wild Laccaria 

  • Bauhinia variegata ?

    Bauhinia variegata ?; . Bauhinia x blakeana :: Hooghly, West Bengal:  Yesterday, I have had a short chat with … (in the ‘facebook’ group ‘Indian Flora’) over the identification of this Bauhinia sp. He identified it as Bauhinia x blakeana or the ‘Hong Kong Orchid Tree’. … also provided me links…

  • Digitaria sanguinalis

    Digitaria sanguinalis (L.) Scop., Fl. Carniol. ed. 2, 1: 52 1771. (syn: Cynodon praecox (Walter) Roem. & Schult.; Dactilon sanguinale (L.) Vill.; Digitaria aegyptiaca Willd.; Digitaria aegyptiaca subsp. caucasica (Henrard) Tzvelev; Digitaria australis Willd. ex Trin.; Digitaria caucasica Henrard; Digitaria eriogona (Schrad.) Link; Digitaria gracilis Guss.; Digitaria nealleyi Henrard; Digitaria…

  • Camellia azalea (Cultivated)

    Camellia azalea C.F.Wei, Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 6(4): 141 1986. (Syn: Camellia changii C.X.Ye); China Southeast as per POWO;   Camellia azalea from Manipur : 3 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2) Camellia azalea photographed in cultivation by Thingnam Rajshree, in Imphal, Manipur.   References: POWO Catalogue of Life  The…

  • Pseuderanthemum species- Atlanta, USA

      Plant for ID : Conservatory, Atlanta Botanical Garden, Atlanta : 02JUL20 : AK-05 : 6 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) Seen during my visit in October, 2018. Unfortunately I have only one picture. Flowers and leaves resemble Eranthemum Species. Only the leaves are narrow. Appears to be some Pseuderanthemum…

  • Begonia species/ hybrids- Mahe, Pondicherry

    Mahe Begonia 12 : 6 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1)- 3 mb.  Request for id of cultivated Begonia from Mahe. Photographed in October 2019. South American, don’t know sp!  

  • Home page of efloraofindia group modified

    Home page of efloraofindia group modified : 4 posts by 1 author. Home page of efloraofindia group has been modified by adding the following at top:efloraofindia website- database of Plants of Indian Subcontinent- developed by the members of this efloraofIndia Google group I hope this is OK? Database on plants of…

  • efloraofindia on Instagram

    Fwd: Any use?- Posting on efloraofindia page in Facebook : 21 posts by 1 author. For quite some time, I have been posting updates regarding updating our families and genera with comparative images. Is there any use of such postings (except for getting some likes/ engagements), as I am not…

  • Which database to follow?

    Which database to follow? : 15 posts by 1 author. While following different databases for last few years, I have seen totally different taxonomic treatments in these: Kew Database (Plants of The World Online), World Flora Online (replacement for TPL) and Catalogue of Life (April 2020 Beta version).    …

  • Nymphaea species/ hybrids- Atlanta, USA

    Water Lily for ID : Atlanta Botanical Garden, Atlanta : 03JUL20 : AK-07 : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3) Water Lily seen in a pond outside the Conservatory during my visit in October, 2018. Could not find any match comparative images at Nymphaea You have to find out which…

  • Hoya fischeriana (Cultivated)

    Hoya fischeriana Warb., Fragm. Fl. Philipp. 1: 129 1904.;   Philippines (Luzon, Mindoro, Biliran, Dinagat, Mindanao) as per Catalogue of Life;   Kindly help with the id of this Hoya plant. : 6 posts by 3 authors. 1 image. When and where was this clicked ? Was it wild or…

  • Korthalsella japonica

    Korthalsella japonica (Thunb.) Engl., Nat. Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. 1: 138 1897. (syn: Bifaria abyssinica Tiegh.; Bifaria aitchisonii Tiegh.; Bifaria balfourii Tiegh.; Bifaria bojeri Tiegh.; Bifaria commersonii Tiegh.; Bifaria davidiana Tiegh.; Bifaria fasciculata Tiegh.; Bifaria gaudichaudii Tiegh.; Bifaria humblotii Tiegh.; Bifaria japonica (Thunb.) Tiegh.; Bifaria richardii Tiegh.; Korthalsella binii Pic.Serm.; Korthalsella brassiana…

  • Korthalsella

    Korthalsella japonica (Thunb.) Engl. (China (Fujian, S-Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, S-Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang), Taiwan, Tibet, Japan (Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu), Ryukyu Isl., South Korea, Afghanistan (Kunar / Nuristan), Pakistan (Kurram, Swat, Murree, Hazara), Bhutan, Myanmar [Burma] (Kachin, Sagaing), Sri Lanka, India (Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand,…

  • Arceuthobium oxycedri

    Arceuthobium oxycedri (DC.) M. Bieb. (Syn: Arceuthobium juniperi Bubani; Razoumofskya caucasica Hoffm.; Razoumofskya oxycedri (DC.) F. W. Schultz; Viscum caucasicum (Hoffm.) Steud.; Viscum oxycedri DC.); Albania, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Crete, Spain, Serbia & Kosovo, Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia & Hercegovina, ?Italy, Crimea, Algeria, Morocco, Northern Caucasus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia…

  • Arceuthobium

    Arceuthobium oxycedri (DC.) M. Bieb. (Albania, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Crete, Spain, Serbia & Kosovo, Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia & Hercegovina, ?Italy, Crimea, Algeria, Morocco, Northern Caucasus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia [Caucasus], Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey (E-Anatolia, N-Anatolia, NE-Anatolia, NW-Anatolia: Bithynia, S-Anatolia, SE-Anatolia, SSW-Anatolia, SW-Anatolia, W-Anatolia), European Turkey, Iran (EC-Iran, NE-Iran: Mts., N-Iran),…